Those things wreak havok on a home aquarium if you accidentally pick some up in coral. They'll make short work of fellow inhabitants, and have been known to crack aquarium glass.

Yep

bet they go good with some cocktail sauce

It's sure a strange looking critter! How would one go about catching a bunch of them? I would like to try that recipe. Is it PC to eat the bait? lol

I was surfing the other day and got attacked by those little bitty sea lice things. I always thought that they were microscopic, but they are a bit bigger than that. They are about the size of a piss ant but clear. They look like a little bitty clear crab, pinchers and all.

I was wearing a pair of spandex underwear that I like to wear under my boardshorts when I am surfing. I got a whole mess of them stuck in those darn tights just as I was coming in. It was like having ants in my pants. I was freaked out when I put my hands down my pants to scratch my butt and started pulling out scores of these little clear crab things. They would raise their pinchers and snap just like a crab but smaller. That kind of sea lice sucks!!!

My sister and her family went down a couple of weeks ago and were bitten by the same small ant sized clearish crabish creatures. I have never seen or heard of these, any one know what they are?

i hate to admit it but i actually cooked up a few sea lice that i had from left over bait, it taste kind of like lobster

Loopty, does this mean that when I come down to go crabbing with you I now have to specify blue crabs?