Reef safe or fish food

Pinnotheres ostreum ( oyster crabs ) Are they reef safe or should i chop them up for fish food.

 

all i could find is recipes involving garlic.lol so i guess theyre definitely skillet safe , not sure about reef. sorry.

 

Thats all i could find to, one said bread and pan fry. definitely skillet safe :LolLolLol

 

How did you get so many of them?

edit: found this
A diminutive (less than 1 inch wide) soft-shell crab that makes its home inside an oyster or clam and lives off the food its host eats.

So it sounds like they stay with the host, so they might be reef safe. Cant find any info on keeping them in tanks, just cooking them like others said.

 

I agree with the others, since it's diet is listed as left overs from it's host, I would say their safe, but be cautious.

Oyster crab
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Oyster crab
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Pinnotheridae
Genus: Zaops
Species: Z. ostreus
Binomial name
Zaops ostreus
(Say, 1817) [1][2]
Synonyms

Pinnotheres ostreum Say, 1817

The oyster crab, Zaops ostreus, is a small, whitish or translucent crab in the family Pinnotheridae. It is less than half an inch across, and lives inside the gills of an oyster or a clam.[3] It uses the oyster for protection and lives on the food that the oyster gets for itself. It is found in oysters in the North Atlantic Ocean.[3]

The crabs are eaten as a delicacy.[4]