By Marcello Di Francesco

Location: Mabul Island — Malaysia

Category: Behavior

Marcello Di Francesco

Photo by Alan Lo

"With a single snooted strobe on this beautiful candy crab."

Location: Lembeh Strait — Indonesia

Category: Macro

Alan Lotaken

Photo by Gaetano Gargiulo

"I spotted this tiny crab under a large orange sponge that gave the dreamy overcast shallow DOF with the use of a +10 diopter focuses the attention over the eyes..."

Location: Spiaggia Caterina — Naples

Category: Macro

Gaetano Gargiulo

Photo by Massimo Zannini

"Candy Crab."

Location: Maratua — Indonesia

Category: Macro

Massimo Zannini

Photo by Peter de Maagt

"Diving in Raja Ampat offers the possibility to go for wide angle or macro on each site. The subject matter for taking pictures is phenomenal. This little crinoid crab was playing hide and seek and was clearly enjoying it. Each time when I was in position to take a picture it would just move an inch. It was a true test of patience."

Location: Raja — Ampat

Category: Macro

Peter de Maagt

Photo by Rick Mowbray

“A crab prances around in his disco urchin home.”

Location: Indonesia

Category: Macro

Rick Mowbray

Photo by Alan Lo

“Very close up on this hermit crab and snooted with single strobe.”

Location: Lembeh Strait — Indonesia

Category: Macro

Alan Lo

Photo by Arthur Borges

"While diving at one of the Muck diving sites in Bali the dive master called my attention to this soft coral at the bottom. It took me two minutes to understand what he was showing me but after I did the excitement became instant. The correct name is soft coral crab but I can't stop thinking that candy crab fits much better."

Location: Bali — Indonesia

Category: Macro

Arthur Borges

Photo by Adriano Morettin

"A tiger shrimp with a small shrimp."

Location: Lembeh Strait — Indonesia

Category: Macro

Adriano Morettin

Photo by Nicholas Samaras

"Candy crab 'Hoplophrys oatesi'."

Location: East of Flores — Indonesia

Category: Macro

Nicholas Samaras

Photo by Martin Klein

"Two harlequin shrimps discovering the world."

Location: Lembeh Strait — Indonesia

Category: Macro

Martin Klein

Leonardo Paez

“My friends and I were diving the Euro Jacks off a location called ‘the Yankee Clipper’ in Fort Lauderdale Beach. There's a long 20 swim in between shore and the jacks. On my way back to the beach, I saw this little Hermit Crab climbing a rock. I hid below him and got him by surprise. Say cheese!!”

Location: Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida — United States

Category: Macro

Leonardo Paez

Photo by Rick Mowbray

“A small crab tries his best to blend in on his vase sponge home. Once spotted, he displays his menacing claws.”

Location: Raja Ampat — Indonesia

Category: Macro

Rick Mowbray

Photo by Rick Mowbray

"These crabs almost always exhibit the same color as their soft coral host. We were lucky to find this color impaired one perched atop his home."

Location: Dumaguete — Philippines

Category: Macro

Rick Mowbray

Photo by Christian Vizl

"A crab hiding beneath a sea urchin."

Location: Sacatoso, Ixtapa —México

Category: Macro

Christian Vizl

Photo by Pasquale Vassallo

"Two tiger shrimp on a starfish. "

Location: Lembeh Strait — Indonesia

Category: Macro

Pasquale Vassallo

Photo by Alberto Gallucci

"This small, beautiful shrimp was placed on a brown sponge, a few inches from a sea anemone, at a depth of about eight meters."

Location: Formentera, Balearic Sea — Spain

Category: Macro

Alberto Gallucci