Wow, all i can say is you mix and matched all of it real good!! 74 ~ 76% hG is good since you have a tank lid.

Looks like the crabs is heading to a good start in the new tank. Well done! Dont put a fan for breeze. Learning from my experience, fan / air cond will dry up the humidity in the tank but it gives good temp.

On my side, i had a very bad new, one of my new crab, a small Ecuadorian, dropped 3 of its legs and now left 1 leg and 2 pincers. Currently in ISO and hope it can pull through.

My aunt switched on the light last night and forgot to switch off till this morning and caused a huge stress build to all my crabs.


@prophet007 : Cheers mate Invested quite some time to redecorate the tank. Though i have made a few changes to the water dish but the overall layout stays the same. Seeing the crabs climb around just make me a much happier owner

glad that its normal. hopefully the crabbies live a long n prosperous life ya, i was thinking of buying a fan just now, but was worried it might screw up the humidity. luckily i didn't.

sorry to hear on your Ecuadorian. you mean it lost its legs because of the light on the whole night? wow....i gotta be careful then. i tot naturally there's moonlight, so the crabs dont mind some light at night??

i agree u're tank looks good. hopefully my next renovation of the tank will end up similiar to yours.

does a whipsnake eat small mice? if so, how small?

err...i think u're in the wrong thread dude. but yes, whipsnakes eat mice, frogs and other small mammals. my old whipsnake used to like frogs, then later refused to eat frogs, so had to buy the little white mice.

but weird thing is that one day, the mice ended up biting the snake!!! almost bit the snake in half...not sure what was going on. so had to kill the mice and let the snake heal. funny.

One reason i dislike keep snakes as pets is i have to kill live small animals to feed them

Anyway, back to topic Lil' Ecuadorian pulled through the hard stage last night, as for now. Surviving with a limb and 3 pincer, it have to lean one side to move around, very slowly. Brown liquid came out from its abdomen so its a sign of over stress and much possibility of dry humidity.

Still very strong tho, finished up any food i throw in.

hahaha...good job. lucky the fella could survive. so how did he lose the limbs? from stress or other crabs?

From stress actually. Its common for captivity crabs. In the wild they got stress from the competition of other crabs, in captivity, they build up stress from bad tank environment, low humidity, too high / low temperature, lack of shells.

Lil buddy passed away around 9pm. I let it rest in the main tank and died peacefully between the stack of shells. I removed the table lamp from the tank, so none of my family members will switch that on accidentally.

aiyaa....so he didn't make it la. funny how a simple thing like light can do so much damage.

one of my crabbies managed to open the sliding door on the aquarium and jump out. had a great fall about 3 feet, but luckily only his shell got chipped. later when i put him back in the tank, he was holding hands with the other crab the whole night. funny sight.

dunno how he knew how to slide the door open, must have seen me do it when i open the door. coz i saw him trying to do it again the next day. quite clever also.

The light cycle. Just like us humans. When its dark for the whole day, our mood will drop and depression will rise. If the light cycle is consistent, it will maintain the mood and stress at pace despite any build up stress from the environment.

If the light is on for the whole day or during the night, the stress will build up as the crab have nowhere to hide as to them, in the nature, light is their enemy as larger crabs will hunt them for food or being "fried" by the sun. So in the day, they burrow / hide in dark areas, hole and will come out during the night.

As the light cycle keeps going on normal pace, the crabs will learn and adapt accordingly. Not to mention, they have sense of understanding and certain degree of intelligence.

One incident is the way i put their food, they know which spot i will throw and once, i saw all of them stacked on the food spot waiting Humorous it is

Strawberry crabs is quite strong for its size, so when they adapt on something, they will keep doing it. Make sure you have your drift wood being put slightly away from the door. Soo, they have to adapt another new height and challenge.

Can i use hair dryer to keep the tank warm? the hot air from outside, cause i was aware that they wants humidity., somtimes i on aircond in the room so i kinda worry.

i just missing one of my 5 crab, during CNY , so busy then suddenly found missing one i thought it bury in the sand then i try to dig and search , but really not in the sand , so sad i search around my home town house for 2 day, so sad.......





thinking to get new crab , now ikano and pet family at taman megah still selling right? thinking to go on this weekend

Went to pets family few hours back, 8 large strawberry and 3 small cute ones. For Pet Safari, not sure, last checked was few month back, 14 of them, large and jumbo.

speaking of crabs with missing limbs, just wanna remind the owners to put some rocks in the water dish cause one of my crabs died of drowning... I am using the exo-terra water dish and there is a slide for the crabs to climb up but maybe that crab cant find the way of something...

i just back from ikano , couldn't find any they say no more i ask the staff , is no longer selling or out of stock he said not sure, so now only left pet family

Thanks for the information. I can assure you Pet Family will still have stock. They do even sell large turbo shells even.

Just bought 1 small and 1 medium Strawberry from Pet Family yesterday.
Left a few only.

oh no.. you took the small strawberry crab home!! It is so cute and always visit it whenever i am in Megah .

haha
i also just bought 3 on one day before Awan haha i saw the small crab also and i keep asking for discount haha, they didn't if not you wont get that haha. now total i got 6 red one small gray haha

Aiya, u bought 3 nowonder left a few choices for me only.
I hope to buy more but will wait for new stocks to come in.
And I realised I need a bigger tank as well.

Woah.. truly pity the small one as its a different species with the others. If it can take care of itself really good, then there shouldnt be a problem for you, just like my Purple Pincer, very self sufficient.