Tropical Rainbow Crabs?

[chrismr]

Found this listing on Ebay... the though of a crab appeals, but I would want to know potential size, diet, are they truly freshwater or brackish... etc.

crab on ebay

 

[nmonks]

They're Cardiosoma armatum, and they don't care about the water so long as their is some to dip into. But they are terrestrial. They need a vivarium, with only a pool of water to wet their gills in periodically. Read up on land hermit crabs; they're essentially the same, except prettier. Cannot be kept in an aquarium.

Eat anything. Mine loved soft fruit and the odd frozen whitebait.

Cheers,

Neale