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Meet Claude, a Giant Tasmanian Crab that looks like something out of a monster movie. Claude was destined for an oversized steam pot before a British aquarium stepped in and bought the enormous beast for £3,000 (~ $4,800).
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He is the biggest crab on display in the UK. Claude weighs in at a mighty 15lbs and measures 15 inches wide. When he is fully grown he will weigh a whopping 30lbs and gain an extra three inches.
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Claude is 100 times bigger than a standard UK shore crab. Yet he is still a juvenile and will grow to double his weight. Claude was caught off the coast of Tasmania last month, but was sold to the Sea Life group along with two other Tasmanian giant crabs.
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He will go on display at the Sea Life centre in Weymouth, Dorset, on Thursday, and his two companions will be moved to other centres in Birmingham and Berlin if Claude responds well to his new home.
Currently he is being kept on his own in a specially made cylindrical tank, ten feet tall and six feet wide, but the aquarium will introduce some coldwater fish once he is settled.
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