crab id
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Re: crab id
lost King Crab.........
yeah dunno but I have caught/seen them before also.....weird mothers.
Epialtidae.......is the family or group name for this type of crab and common names are Spider crab but I can't find an exact match......
yeah dunno but I have caught/seen them before also.....weird mothers.
Epialtidae.......is the family or group name for this type of crab and common names are Spider crab but I can't find an exact match......
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Re: crab id
We suspect its from the jurrasic era
So many barnacles and other organisms growing off his body
So many barnacles and other organisms growing off his body
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Re: crab id
Its a decorator crab. uses corals as a camo.
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Does anyone know if they are nice to eat?
They seem to come up a few times a year, one day if I end up with one I wouldn't know if I should toss it back or eat it?
They seem to come up a few times a year, one day if I end up with one I wouldn't know if I should toss it back or eat it?
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Re: crab id
Throw them back mate. No meat and taste like pure salt apparantly.
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Seriously would you eat something that looks like the head off Predator??? Great photo though. Pretty sure I saw one of those on exhibit at the Darwin museum. Around, but not that common...
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They are actually very common just not often caught unless someone jags one on a fishing line. Channel island reef near the bridge has heaps of them in the rock pools if you have good enough eyes to see them.Once Bitten wrote:Seriously would you eat something that looks like the head off Predator??? Great photo though. Pretty sure I saw one of those on exhibit at the Darwin museum. Around, but not that common...
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There are plenty of 'decorator crabs' around. i remember diving off Pt Stephens and there were decorator crabs there that were completely covered with soft corals
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Re: crab id
Got one last year the size of a 5c piece. Caught on a rapala flat rap mind you.
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Re: crab id
very similar to spider crab in uk, boil legs and claws up, not bad chewing.
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That's the crab John West rejected
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Re: crab id
Thats awesome!
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