Keeping & breeding of the Blue Crab ( Callinectes sapidus ) in the aquarium?

[TiercelR]

Hello all,
please can you share a some advice about of the keeping & breeding of the Blue Crab ( Callinectes sapidus ) in the aquarium?
Thank you in advance for your comments. Regards.

 

[Lynnzer]

I would have thought there's very little chance of it. See this
I had vampire crabs myself and they don't breed in a tank either but they are nowhere near as big as a blue crab.
As they can lay up to a million eggs at a time, imagine the size of tank you'd need.
Funny thing: my grandaughter age 4 went to school and told all her class and teachers that her grandpa has crabs. I got some funny looks when I went up to collect her after class.

 

[TiercelR]

I would have thought there's very little chance of it. See this
I had vampire crabs myself and they don't breed in a tank either but they are nowhere near as big as a blue crab.
As they can lay up to a million eggs at a time, imagine the size of tank you'd need.
Funny thing: my grandaughter age 4 went to school and told all her class and teachers that her grandpa has crabs. I got some funny looks when I went up to collect her after class.

Hello Lynnzer, thanks for your comments, for the enjoyable school history and for the link !

The Vampire Crabs are very beautiful in all of their color variations, but unfortunatelly they are very very difficult for to obtain them here in Mexico, although a variation of color of the Halloween Crabs can be obtained ( but not as easy for to obtain them as i wish it ) here in a few of the LFS of the city.

Is amazing the quantity of eggs the female can produce ! Maybe a pair of a some big collapsible swimming pools can hold a some hundreds of them during their raising, but will be necessary to do the culling of the 99.99% or more of their offspring !
Here in the city it is possible to obtain live Blue Crabs directly from a few fish markets who keep them alive for the kitcheners. Thanks !