Red Claw Crab

[srs753421]

Hello all,

Can anybody out there recommend a plant or plant types that these critters wont hack to bits and decimate?

Regards!

 

[@ombomb]

anything that floats...

 

[srs753421]

The simplist ideas are always the best!! Makes sense that does!!

Cheers!

 

[jimbooo]

all i can say is they dont go in planted tanks. i had 2 in my sig tank and they seemed to enjoy testing their pincers on the stems. i'd wake up in the morning to utter devestation, they'd chop up 8-10 stems a night. in a week or so the plants were all binned and i had to start again.

loose the crabs or go with floating plants, sorry.

 

[superjalami30]

Generally plants are a bad idea, however, I have a electric blue and he hasnt touched the Val or Anubius nana I've put in with him.
But, he has dug up the sag and pygmy chain I planted in the past, so after several replants I gave up on those two.
I'm not sure why she hasnt bothered the Val and the Anubius though.

 

[jimbooo]

vals too tough (at the base) and anubias stems are quite tough as well. they may pinch off the new anubias leaves though. ever found a single anubias leaf floating around the tank? they dont fall off of their own accord

 

[superjalami30]

oh yea, I've found a few, but considering what she did to the pygmy chain and sag a few leaves choped off here and there doesnt hurt.
All the plants I have put in the cray tank are "extra's", ones that I've pruned or thinned out of other tanks, so the fact I lose a bit here and there doesnt bother me.
I wouldnt put in a plant that I had just purchased though.

Speakin of purchases, I'm acclimating my flower shrimp as I type.

 

[beechey]

do these crabs attack plecs or any other bottom fish??

 

[superjalami30]

Well, they wont "attack" them, but they will catch them and proceed to eat them, what's left they will bury and eat later.

 

[beechey]

so clown loaches wont mix either???