My Awful Invert Aquarium

[TylerFerretLord]

I think I caught them mating. The smaller one was holding the larger and they were wiggling around for a while.

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The larger one after the whole conjoined crab thing(the blob on the twig is a limpet):

 

[three-fingers]

Wow, great catch! I haven't seen mine in 3 days .

Hope you get babies!

 

[TylerFerretLord]

I've only seen four so far, and only because they don't move around much. I haven't seen them eat either.

 

[keenonfish]

That's good news hopefully you will be flogging offspring on TFF soon then?

BTW is that a limpet in the picture there?

 

[iSnail]

Any sign of the eggs yet?

 

[TylerFerretLord]

Nope. The larger one has relocated to somewhere out of sight, probably the other side of the piece of wood it likes.

Yes, that is a limpet.

Still haven't seen them eat or anything. They just seem to sit in one spot most of the time. I wonder if it's because the water is too cold? 68F-70F on average.

 

[Liam]

Great capture Tyler,
I keep them at the same temperature as you do, so far they are fine, the only species data I could find was in Spanish it says that a temp of 77F or 25C is ideal don't know how reliable that info is though. I have seen some of mine eat but not like shrimp do.

 

[TylerFerretLord]

I guess they lean more on the carnivorous side of things. I dropped in some bloodworms and they started to move about for once. Had to use a flash for the pics.

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[TylerFerretLord]

Saw a crab munching a cherry this morning.

I don't know if it caught it or simply found it, as it was in an area where it would be possible for them to catch a cherry; In between a sponge and the tank glass where movement was restricted for the cherries.

Still haven't seen the one that I think was the female. I know it's not the one doing the cherry-munching because she was missing a claw.

 

[rhstranger]

any updates? Your tank intrigues me so much. I love this thread!

 

[TylerFerretLord]

Not much has happened really. I've been away from home for nearly two weeks now, so maybe something has happened.

Thanks for the compliment, I must say I'm surprised.

 

[TylerFerretLord]

No pictures, and probably none for a long while. While I was away my mom lent our camera to my sister and she managed to break it.

 

[TylerFerretLord]

I said something about it so it decided to spite me. Still broken, just less broken than before. Only posting these because I got a few shots of an eggy crab.

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You can just make out her pumping the eggs in this.

 

[iSnail]

Cute eggy crab

 

[keenonfish]

Cool. It will be interesting to see where this leads Be prepared for lots of experiments to successfully raise the larvae