Freshwater Crabs

[Kain]

oddball, can you get pics of the blue malawi crabs? From my experience, fiddlers are fine with plants but I once had a red claw crab chop up my amazon sword. They would clip away at base of the leaves until they remove the entire leaf...then move on to the next...

 

[guppy]

These picks of the Malawi blue crab (Potomonautes orbitspinus) are all by Crileson,

 

[Killergar]

Wow thats a cool crab. How big do Malawi crabs get? Are they hard to find?

 

[USMCtanker]

my fiddlers dont come above water at all now and there doing fine. when i first got them they always found a way to clime out and i would find them in my house

 

[ja__]

have any of you ***s tryed aeglas? a freshwater "crab" from brazil wich also reproduces in freshwater its also not that agressive as the malawi blue and can be kept together in small tanks without problems

 

[jemarcus]

as far as i know of, most crabs are scavengers, so they eat almost anything in their way. that includes plants. so its best not to put plants with them. some day when u just forget to feed them, u'll find your plant eaten. but on other days even when u feed them, u'll find ur plants uprooted. juz a mischievious crab at work i'd say.