Giant crab

This article is about the pet. For the attackable monster, see Giant crab (Rocking Out).

Giant crab
Release date	15 January 2008 (Update)
Members	Yes
Race	Crab
Source	Nung
Interface	No
Skill req.	40 Summoning, 32 Slayer
Quest req.	Freeing Pirate Pete
Food	Raw fish
Colours	5
Examine	Baby: Little Nipper Adult: Bigger Nipper.
Advanced data
NPC ID	6948, 7294, 7296, 7298, 7300, 9218, 9219, 9220, 9221, 9222
Item ID	12501, 12747, 12749, 12751, 12753
Links	MRID12501 MRID12747 MRID12749 MRID12751 MRID12753 MRND6948 MRND7294 MRND7296 MRND7298 MRND7300 MRND9218 MRND9219 MRND9220 MRND9221 MRND9222
Infobox • Talk page

A giant crab is a pet players may obtain after reaching 40 Summoning and completing the Freeing Pirate Pete subquest of Recipe for Disaster. To receive a Baby Giant Crab, players must kill the Mogres at Mudskipper Point (32 Slayer required), until they receive a Crunchy claw token, which is an uncommon drop. Then players wearing a diving apparatus and fishbowl helmet can go underwater at Port Khazard and talk to Nung. He will exchange a Baby Giant Crab for the Crunchy Claw Token.

The crab eats any type of raw fish, including barbarian fish. For every 5-15% hunger a Baby Giant Crab gains, it grows by 1%. It takes approximately 10 hours for it to become an adult.

The style of crab you receive is random from the five types below.

Colour	Baby		Adult
	Chathead	NPC	Chathead	NPC
Beige
Grey
Red
Red with green spots
Yellow

Dialogue

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Update history

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• update 15 January 2008 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• If you talk to the crab while wearing a Crab claw or Crab helmet, it will say that it has no weak point and that you can't hit it for massive damage, a reference to the Enemy Crab meme.
• 'I is going to eat you, little fishies!' May be a reference from the hit British TV Series Red Dwarf, where The Cat frequently said 'I'm gonna eat you, little fishies.'
• When you ask Murphy to go diving with your crab out, he says that it wouldn't react well to going underwater despite crabs being aquatic organisms. However, you are able to dive with a crab on a limited basis by letting it out immediately after obtaining it from Nung (while you are already diving).