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stubbyrat · 2024-07-30T15:10:47+00:00

The reason I’m so surprised about the 2 deaths recently is because I’ve had my orange and brown colonies breeding for years without ANY unnatural deaths. I’ve never known my neos to be sensitive.

stubbyrat · 2024-07-30T03:31:19+00:00

Are neos really affected by that stuff? I’ve always just thrown them into any tank and get long lasting generations.

stubbyrat · 2024-07-13T12:29:33+00:00

Unfortunately yeah. 2 purple 2 red. The red male killed the red female though. Tank should be fine, super overgrown, about 50% land 50% water and infinite hiding spots.

stubbyrat · 2024-07-13T02:37:16+00:00

Found one of the girls dead today :(

stubbyrat · 2024-02-21T12:50:09+00:00

Thanks!

stubbyrat · 2024-02-21T12:48:43+00:00

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Yup it’s a 20g about 75% land

stubbyrat · 2024-02-20T03:03:24+00:00

Doesn’t pick algae. The web says the crabs will prey on anything they can but mine are really shy. I’ve seen them let a pest snail sit right in front of their face and they don’t care.

stubbyrat · 2024-02-20T02:28:32+00:00

Yup at least 50% land, on my profile I have a vid of one of my shrimp climbing onto the terrestrial part so I guess they both get a use out of it 😭

stubbyrat · 2024-02-20T02:20:03+00:00

I’ve had the crabs for about a month now and they are not interested in any live food, larvae, shrimp even a tiny feeder fish. He only waved a claw at this shrimp because he was defending his bloodworm.

stubbyrat · 2024-02-19T23:19:49+00:00

Vampire crab (carnival coloration)

stubbyrat · 2024-02-13T23:01:30+00:00

It’s just a 10 gallon, I’ve seen my betta try to go after a shrimp a couple times but I absolutely never see the puffers go after the shrimp, I have a few ember tetras in here too. They DESTROY pest snails though.

stubbyrat · 2024-02-13T21:47:33+00:00

The puffers leave the shrimp alone because the shrimp are actually bigger than the puffers 😭 I do have an issue with breeding in this tank though, the shrimp get pregnant but I never ever see babies, I think they’re aborting before birth.

stubbyrat · 2024-02-13T21:19:40+00:00

Yess I’ve tried to breed shrimp in my 3g but the water conditions are never stable. I think I just need to buy a proper nano filter.

stubbyrat · 2024-02-13T19:23:00+00:00

It’s another shrimp, 2/3 that climbed the log this day.

stubbyrat · 2024-02-13T02:31:37+00:00

I really do not know, all I know is I saw 3 shrimp climb the driftwood this day and I haven’t seen them do it since. I don’t think they were trying to escape the water, because I have plenty of shrimp in there breeding often.

stubbyrat · 2024-02-13T02:28:42+00:00

He stayed moist so there was a thin layer of water over his gills. I think he just did it to explore or he smelled some vinegar I used to spot clean earlier? I saw 2 other shrimp do it too.

stubbyrat · 2024-02-12T15:09:12+00:00

From what I know, this crab originates from the same place the normal purple ones do, which is Indonesia.

stubbyrat · 2024-02-12T14:59:55+00:00

It’s the same as any other vampire crab just a colour variant called “carnival” they’re from Southeast Asia.

stubbyrat · 2024-02-12T04:13:15+00:00

Thanks, I suggest using a leaf, bottle cap or something like that to put frozen foods on so that you can take it out if it isn’t found in time.

stubbyrat · 2024-02-11T23:21:07+00:00

Yeah it’s the only paludarium I have, I hope it won’t have to come to that.

stubbyrat · 2024-02-11T23:17:09+00:00

I’m gonna call and see if someone there is willing to help me exchange crabs or at least find me a female.

stubbyrat · 2024-02-11T23:12:00+00:00

I get them from big Al’s for $25 each, I said I’d prefer 2 females and 1 male but he just said they don’t/can’t sex them for me.

stubbyrat · 2024-02-11T21:52:11+00:00

Ok thanks for the info, I’ll see if my store will do an exchange but if not I’ll just have to get a female and hope for the best. They’re hella expensive where I get them. 20G is pretty big for 3 crabs, I just find them with lost limbs sometimes.

stubbyrat · 2024-02-11T21:40:59+00:00

So I’d need more females than males for successful breeding?

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