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No worries, ive put some aquatic backing on his tank, not that its really suitable, just looks a bit tidier when looking into the tank. :drool:

Nope, he would eat them or atleast kill them straight away, hes completely on his own. :crazy: Hes cool to watch though. :good:

Had to use flash... as you can see, the heat causes condensation, its best to use a heat mat rather then an under water heater, it just seemd to evaperate the water very rapidly, and if it gets to low and your not around, BANG! which could be dead crab, and no house lol so a heat mat is the way...

I can do, but for what purpose, its just a custom built glass tank, 2 inches of sand substrate (they like to dig/burrow), some bog wood to allow them to easily get out of water, they also like moving the bogwood and also hide under it, realistically, theres no point putting live or plastic...

Yep upto 20cm sounds right, they eat anything from flakes, to frozen, to live food, veg, meat etc.. so yeh, everything, mine even eats small bits of bread sticks!!

lol, rainbow only grow to 6" or so... :P

Fair enough, my rainbow crab is kept on his own, he will kill anything, including other crabs, as i found out. Hes a dominant git lol.

Hes about 2 and a half inches wide (just his actual body), with his legs spread, hes about 5 inches wide... his pincers can fit around my finger pretty tightly, yeh, my finger haha - doesnt hurt, and its the easiest way to get him out the tank, just put my finger in there let him grab it...

Well really, its going to die in the end anyway, but i would rather be frozen then eaten alive. :crazy:

Doesnt the cray try and eat the red claw crab!?

I think you do watch a wee bit to much animal planet yes lol

I've always heard that they should kept in fresh water, but to induce breeding, brackish water is required... yes But yeh eithers fine, but overall it wont make the crab live any healthier or make his life longer so you may aswell use fresh water, less hassle lol

Thanks It is actually recommended to keep these as fresh water, i am friends with a fish whole saler, he keeps all of his crabs in fresh water, lol he seems to be fine in fresh water anyways! Hes about 2 and a half inches wide (just his actual body), with his legs spread, hes about 5 inches...

A few pictures of my rainbow crab, hes kept in standard fresh water, a heat mat used to maintain a temperature of 22*c, sand is used as substrate, and bogwood so he can easily get out of the water and he can eat food more easily above the surface on the bogwood. He eats pretty much anything you...

A few pictures of my rainbow crab, hes kept in standard fresh water, a heat mat used to maintain a temperature of 22*c, sand is used as substrate, and bogwood so he can easily get out of the water and he can eat food more easily above the surface on the bogwood. He eats pretty much anything you...

Confirmed, she is female then! If the pregnency is successful i will post pictures to this thread, be sure to subscribe to the thread if interested, thanks!

I only have silk plants so no need for loads of light, but thanks for all your help, looks like i updated my last post after you replied, any idaes on that - crazy!

Woo thanks! Do platys have any light preferences, i would assume as normal, less light would reduce stress levels? I see a male in the tank, cus of his anal fin he is deffiantly male, hes chasing a female around, and is shoving other males away from the female, but it looks like he has a dark...

Heres two pics, not very clear because of the netting on the trap, but you can see the black spot And another Her tail is black, the rest of her body is quite colourless, mostly a transparenty greyish colour with a tint of blue on the top of her body near her tail.

Shes not bursting, but shes quite big, its really hard getting a picture, a fish gets in the way or she moves so its blurred lol. I have a plant in the trap. Thanks!

Ahh ha! the pair that i reffered to, they are both of the same colour, rather pale, with small blotches of colour (just thought i would add that), and she does have a black gravid spot near her anal fin! I will post pics, shes been breed trapped, done it smoothly, she didnt visibly panic atall...

Very nice!

*counts*... Theres 9 platies in total, maybe 10, i count about 4 females in total, mind you i didnt buy them planning to breed them, and i bought them from a whole saler so i didnt choose the fish, AND they dont bloody stay still so their hard to count lol, plus the majority of the platies are...

My community tank is rather "live", theres always fish moving around like crazy, the platies and mollies have been in the tank for months and ive not seen any pregnent fish, the tanks next to my pc - which im on almost all day, so i tend to have the fish in the corner of my eye all day lol, i...

Hey peeps, i have been running a tropical tank for almost 2 yrs, and used to have just cold water fish before this, and still do. I know quite a bit about fish, how ever breeding is a weak point, i know bits and bobs about breeding, but one part, probably the most obious is, if i want to breed...