Just a theory, for all red crab keepers

[Paul_MTS]

Just wondering as alot of people say you ned a great lid for them, but i provide land for mine and have a pretty crappy lid after i got rid of my mouly DIY one and there all still correct and present!!

So please vote and post an opinion!!

 

[utahfish]

i have two in a twenty with plenty of land for them to get out on. they've never tried to escape. they do though tear up my plants.

 

[Paul_MTS]

Looks like my thinking as come true!!

Yep there no chance of keeping plants with them, mine even tear chunks off the moss ball.

 

[NickT]

i kept mine with red ludwigia, dwarf grass and some type of low growing crypt and the only plant they messed with was the dwarf hair grass. as soon as i gave the tanks and crabs to my friend he changed the tanks so they coldnt get to the surface for air and 1 escaped after killing the other one within 2 weeks.

 

[Paul_MTS]

woooo go me

well thats a new one i can tell customers that they well escae with no land but with land they will play at home!!

 

[chad1989]

hi, could u tell me any info about them??? i want to get some....will they be ok with puffers , the lfs owner says they will be okj wid them

charlie

 

[Paul_MTS]

From your sig i take it they would be going in the 20g?

in that case your puffers need to move out and crabs would need there own tank.

Puffers will attack and kill just about any fish.

Crabs are puffers natural food.

and Crabs if the puffers don't will attack and kill the other fish in the tank.

 

[Never2Bknown]

LFS people are so full of BS sometimes... I remember being told I could keep an African cichlid in a five gallon, that goldfish do just GREAT in goldfish bowls, that no, mollies don't need salt, that you can keep a baseball glove sized frog in a five gallon all its life, that Chinese Algae Eaters are peaceful community fish that stay tiny all their lives, that I could keep an oscar in a 20 gallon, and many more such lies. There are a couple pet section people at a certain PetSmart that I do feel I can actually trust, but otherwise, don't believe everything they tell you.

Any way you look at it, it's generally a very, very bad idea to keep crabs--or crayfish, for that matter--with most any fish. If the crabs are small enough, your puffers will eat them. If your puffers are small enough, your crabs will eat them. If neither of them are small enough, they'll just tear eachother apart. It's kinda like pacman frogs. Keep two in one terrarium, you WILL, one way or another, end up with just one. Or a half of one. But not two. Never two. Same thing with fish and crabs, I guess.

 

[Opcn]

Not to hijack but...

Paul, You need to know what kind of puffer before you pass judgement on it.

Other Guy: Unless you have a very small puffer the crab will become lunch, Puffers are designed to eat inverts, They have powerful beacks and swim in such a way that they can swing there bodys into position and then strike with lightning speed, they useually take the eyes out first, then there prey cant see what to deffend, then the claws and legs are removed, then if they can get throught the shell they will if not they swim away. If there large enought they will just bite throught the shell and be done with it.

I suggest that you go into the oddballs forum and find out what kind of puffer you have, Most puffers dont make good tankmates althought some are rather peaceful, Some even need brackish water when they grow older, you need to know what you have.

 

[Puffer_freak]

No, you most certainly can't place crabs with puffers....just ask Sir or LadyMinion, who give one of their puffers crabs for dinner sometimes.

Oh, and opcn, it is advised that you do not keep puffers with any kind of fish, no matter hwat type.

 

[Paul_MTS]

Paul, You need to know what kind of puffer before you pass judgement on it.

I resent that, like Puffer_Freak said all puffers need to be kept on there own really and if you do keep them with anything else you have to watch very carefully to make sure they don't find out the other fish tastes good, then to be removed immediatly.

It's best to say no than maybe.

 

[Opcn]

Most Puffers arent heavy predators, They do live with fish in the wild

 

[chad1989]

hi i jus got 2 fig of 8 puffers and i have a light brackish tank and i also go 2 red crabs and they are getting on really good....not one bit of violence

charlie

 

[Opcn]

the fig 8's will eat the crabs, and the loaches cant handle brackish at all.

 

[Paul_MTS]

Most Puffers arent heavy predators, They do live with fish in the wild

smaller species and bigger species live togther in the wild, doesn't mean you can put them togther in a tank without a problem.