I am anxiously awaiting delivery tomorrow of 10 micro crabs for my shrimp and amphipod tank which also has pond snails and ramshorn snails. Does anyone else here keep these little micro crabs? If so, let me hear from you. Share some pics, tips, what yours like to eat, where they like to hang out, how rarely you spot them in your tank, etc.
The tank is right next to where I sit in the morning with my coffee and I spend a lot of time gazing into this tank. I love watching the tiny amphipods and they are about as colorless as the crabs will be.
I’m including a picture of where they will be living. I have not heated this tank over the summer but brought home a nice Cobalt Neo-Thermal Pro heater yesterday in anticipation of keeping the crabs warm this winter and upped the temp to 78.
While I removed a TON of hornwort in an effort to see a little more of the inhabitants and to keep an eye on Big Red (one of my large Bloody Mary shrimp), it is still quire heavily planted with hornwort, guppy grass, elocharis, subwassertang, dwarf sag, oak and Indian almond leaves, alder cones, cholla wood, and driftwood chunks. I added a couple dwarf water lettuce and the shrimp and amphipods have been hanging out on those roots a lot. I hear the crabs will like those roots also.
Nobody else but you folks here could fully appreciate my anticipation. Thanks for letting me share. I will add a post to this thread when they arrive and will show you what I got. I cannot wait for my little spidery crabs.
The tank is right next to where I sit in the morning with my coffee and I spend a lot of time gazing into this tank. I love watching the tiny amphipods and they are about as colorless as the crabs will be.
I’m including a picture of where they will be living. I have not heated this tank over the summer but brought home a nice Cobalt Neo-Thermal Pro heater yesterday in anticipation of keeping the crabs warm this winter and upped the temp to 78.
While I removed a TON of hornwort in an effort to see a little more of the inhabitants and to keep an eye on Big Red (one of my large Bloody Mary shrimp), it is still quire heavily planted with hornwort, guppy grass, elocharis, subwassertang, dwarf sag, oak and Indian almond leaves, alder cones, cholla wood, and driftwood chunks. I added a couple dwarf water lettuce and the shrimp and amphipods have been hanging out on those roots a lot. I hear the crabs will like those roots also.
Nobody else but you folks here could fully appreciate my anticipation. Thanks for letting me share. I will add a post to this thread when they arrive and will show you what I got. I cannot wait for my little spidery crabs.
