Will start a breeding thread if I can keep the larvae, but until then, the event:
Had a camera setup in the tank to see if I could catch the mandarins spawning (they did 3 days in a row, then not for several...), and almost immediately I saw one of the bigger porcelain crabs on the top of the rocks, ready to release its larvae.
I collected them in a strainer by waiting for them to come towards a flashlight and then scooping them up in a cup, and for the first half an hour