LOL to the price of porcelain crabs

[Intricateart]

Hahahaha just did a little research into the price of porcelain crabs, and according to the few sites that sell them, we have between 1000 and 5000 bucks worth of them! Craziness. When you collect these things, you can find up to a hundred under a single rock. Forgive the quality of the pics, these buggers aren't that big and like to hide.

 

[Intricateart]

These are better

 

[Rize2]

Nice! I think they're way cool, but I've never had many because of the price

 

[Intricateart]

If I knew a thing about shipping live animals, I would offer you some

 

[flyinhippie]

I paid 6 bucks for mine. - and of course - he just loves anenomes! :bigsmile:

 

[Intricateart]

Very cool! Thats a porcelain anemone crab, slightly different from the ones I was referring to. We have a different variety of those, which are symbiotic with nems that are themselves symbiotic with hermit crabs. I was pricing based on the 6 to 20 dollar prices I've seen. We have about 150 of them! LOL they are just so funny and the most reef compatible crabs I've ever heard of. Here is a pic of our porcelain anemones-

 

[TJ's Reef]

Very cool to able collect livestock of your own, wish that I had brought a bunch back from Hawaii last trip. They are thick under and around Basalt rocks off many of the beaches. Generically listed as Red Porcelain Crabs, actual Petrolisthes coccineus and as you stated probably the safest of all Crabs for a Reeftank.

Cheers, Todd