ID mini crab

[Dscheng]

Hi all,

Can you ID this mini crab? I saw at seaview before. Any special care for this type? Half submerge type right?

Any idea water parameter for them?

[Urban Aquaria]

Those should be Cardisoma armatum (aka rainbow crab).

Some useful info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardisoma_armatum

http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Bugs,%20Patriot%20Crab.htm

[David Moses Heng]

Yes. They are rainbow crab and they can grow to be quite big.

Ideal environment should be brackish with places for them to hide/burrow.

Do note that they are excellent escape artist though.

I use to have them in my balcony only to find them downstairs one evening after my jog.

That is a good 19 floor down.

[BFG]

What do you feed them with?

[Dscheng]

Yes. They are rainbow crab and they can grow to be quite big.

Ideal environment should be brackish with places for them to hide/burrow.

Do note that they are excellent escape artist though.

I use to have them in my balcony only to find them downstairs one evening after my jog.

That is a good 19 floor down.

What the heck.. 19 floor all the way to the ground floor !! Is the water has any foul smell? I am worried about half submerged type.

[Dscheng]

How about Purple Vampire crab? Where i can get it? Very nice..

[vistary]

328 and seaview has vampires

[David Moses Heng]

What the heck.. 19 floor all the way to the ground floor !! Is the water has any foul smell? I am worried about half submerged type.

I forget to add that it was shattered in pieces. Water must change every day and I fed them with the crab pellets.

[David Moses Heng]

How about Purple Vampire crab? Where i can get it? Very nice..

Do not mix crabs together.

They will fight and the vampires will become food for the rainbow crab.

[killkyo]

They are quite cute actually. I fed mine live fish and watch it hunt for the fish. Very amazing.

[Dscheng]

Just brought the vampire crab, haha actually interesting. I feed it with sera pellet.