Freshwater Crabs

[cmersits]

If you want to get some crabs for your tank, you should get brackish water and a place for them to get out of the water (like driftwood sticking out of the water. My guys likes to chill on the leave of my sword that reach the surface of the water). For food, they can eat any type of sinking pellets.

 

[TheUnhappiest]

They eat anything including fish!. I lost a couple of them that way.

 

[Oddball]

You don't need brackish water for all crabs. Nor, do you need a place for them to leave the water. Try malawi blue crabs. They're a fully aquatic freshwater swimming crab that doesn't forage on land.

 

[FormulatedFire]

i had 3 little red crabs in my 50g until they crawled into the bottom of my powerhead and stayed there until they died.....oh yea and one crawled in my filter and lived there for a month or so

 

[MrfisH]

I just got a fiddler and he needs to come out of the water from time to time, but he usually just hides.

 

[TheUnhappiest]

You don't need brackish water for all crabs. Nor, do you need a place for them to leave the water. Try malawi blue crabs. They're a fully aquatic freshwater swimming crab that doesn't forage on land.

Those are sweet!

 

[acidburn470]

Will a freshwater crab chop your plants or leave them alone?

 

[guppy]

the little ones I had didn't bother the plants, I don't know the species they were.

 

[davo]

I've got red claw crabs, and i've had them in a tank for a couple of years, and theyve done fine without land what so ever-completely submurged. As for the plants they don't bother them at all.

 

[ridether]

I have two crabs and they do extremely well. You never have to worry about them going hungry. As long as there are fish in the tank.