what crab is this?

[jernst]

I don't know if this works. It's so complicated to attach a picture. If you can see it can you tell me what this is and if it is safe for my fish?

 

[nanoreefing4fun]

You have to have your pics "hosted somewhere" (on a server, uploaded from your PC) you can upload them to RS, but most upload to photobucket

once you get a pic uploaded to a host, right click on the pic & click on COPY IMAGE URL

then just paste that into a post... this this around it

if you get an error I will help, but you have to host them somewhere 1st, they can't just be "atttached"
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums...ay-post-pics-photobucket-nanoreefing4fun.html


Here how to load them to RS (hosted here) but it's harder than photobucket imo
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/suggestion-box/86473-how-upload-photos-rs.html

once you get one done... it real easy from then on...

 

[jernst]

Ok thanks can you see it now?

 

[nanoreefing4fun]

If you happen to have an iphone this free app makes it very very simple
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photobucket/id314439840?mt=8

 

[jernst]

http://s1366.photobucket.com/upload#

Maybe this one

 

[nanoreefing4fun]

no but your getting closer
this is what you used in the img syntax

http://s1366.photobucket.com/upload#

right click on your pic & select Copy Image URL & use that & it will work

 

[nanoreefing4fun]

here one of mine... your url should look something like this

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u298/snowdogwgm/3E900C76-552C-4E97-B18B-EDD8599D4B8C.jpg

If your not seeing "Copy Image URL" when you right click, get out of edit & go to home library in photobucket & right click on your pic

 

[nanoreefing4fun]

Congrats ! You got it

now you can also click on the little picture frame ICON ^ about every post, click on from URL & uncheck the little box this works too

 

[nanoreefing4fun]

Hopefully someone can ID him now...

 

[jernst]

ok i got it. the picture is now in my previous post.

 

[nanoreefing4fun]

in photobucket - click on your username, then user settings, then the Albums tab, then click on Upload Options, Customize Upload Options and select

1024x768 (recommended)

then upload the pic again & all pics upload in the future will be large & show details - we love big pics & details

hope this helps

 

[nanoreefing4fun]

If you don't get an id on the crab & really want to find him... check out this link
http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums...lenns-if-interested-thread-4.html#post1007173

 

[Mike Johnson]

The shape of the crab is exactly like a Mithraculus crab. Does it have cupped claws? That would verify it.

 

[nanoreefing4fun]

I was hoping you would jump in with a guess Mike, imo your one of RS best at crab info. Didn't you do a doctorate or something on them Cheers for replying !

 

[Mike Johnson]

Thanks, Glenn. Never did complete my doctorate. Did a dissertation on ecdysis. I was a Blue Crab fisherman out of North Carolina and was published on methods to shed Blue Crabs. I had six 4' x 8' tanks. The "sump" was a full size septic tank with a truck load of ancient coral rock out of Virginia. And, the "protein skimmer", which wasn't called that then, was an eight inch, twenty foot long, pipe. That was in the 90's. I was one of the major producers of soft crabs at that time.

Even though my passion is building things, I am a serious science geek.

 

[Mike Johnson]

See how the bumpy carapace and the general shape of the crab matches this shed of a Black Mithrax.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Here's another shed of a still yet to be identified Mithraculus crab. I still have one live one in my tank. It's going on four years old; which is old for a crab. That crab is a monster (maybe 5 inches) now and never has bothered anything. It has red eyes which makes it look even more evil.