She eats Calcium enriched pellets called "Crab Cuisine" but I don't do any additional tank treatments for calcium. She LOVES frozen blood worms and gets bottom-feeding wafers occasionally. She also eats some of the plants in the tank and I've given her weak feeder fish that she caught. I've tried feeding her vegetables likes pieces of lettuce, cucumber, squash, and spinach but she doesn't touch them. I didn't boil them first so maybe that is why.
Some species aren't over fond of veggies, while others relish them, I gave mine bits of cooked peas,carrots, fishflakes, and aquatic plants and clumps of algae to eat, but the main diet was deli chicken (very fresh) with fish flake in it, this was fed to them using a barbecue skewer
WOW! So you'd wrap fish flakes up in a slice of deli meat and just hold it in the tank with a skewer to pick off? I haven't tried cooking the veggies first so I'll try cooked peas and carrots next. If she doesn't go for them again I'll know she isn't into the vegetables. Mine loves the aquatic plants though. Thanks for your tips!
They like chicken, avoid beef, and only use a little bit of chicken, collect any that isn't eaten in about ten minutes to prevent spoilage
I'm no expert but mine did the same. Coloring can be changed with diet. I was feeding mine a diet of algae waffers and I had a package of a red enhancing pellet that I had picked up from somewhere and had no use for otherwise. Mine were turning a purple color. Id also feed them snails from time to time. Not sure what the food is that will enhance the blue coloring. I had two and I think my lack of feeding anything with calcium was the down fall both went out the same way seemingly stuck in a molt. So I'd suggest feeding a diet with something high in calcium like kale or spinach. Someone told me to put cuttle bone in but I never saw them touch it.
I've seen mine try to eat a snail. One second I looked over and saw him on the glass. Minutes later he was upside down right in front of the crayfish's cave suctioning himself to a large gravel rock as a shield. My crayfish must have clawed him off the glass lol but I rescued him that time. If it happens again I'll just let him snack.
