How are ur crabs faring? Im struggling to keep my plants alive... that includes the all hardy mini fissidens.. lol
One of the fiddler crabs didnt make it pass the first night. The other seems to be lost in the dense forage and have not seen it since.
My vamp tank in the office is doing great. I only dump food in once every few days and leave them alone. Expecting a new batch of baby crabs soon.
rip fiddler crab... seriously? another batch of new born? i havent seen any pregnant females as of now.. its depressing.. haha.. im gathering materials to redo the landscape for my purple tank..
Quick update. There has been a spade of escapades recently. I think the crabs managed to climb high enough from the growing plants.
I also noticed that they love to climb. Here's a pic of them climbing. I have lost count of how many I have in the tank.
Sadly, i lost 2 pvc recently. 1 got killed while molting, another ended up in the balcony. Red devils growing steadily but no offsprings as of now
Small update, lost 1 purple vamp due to unknown reasons. I now have 5 crabs in the tank. Removed the frog as it ate all the babies. Managed to capture a pic of one vamp playing the flute (eating a grub)
Planning to setup a dedicated breeding tank with a breeding program and see how it goes. If anyone comes across red devil vamps please let me know. I can only find the normal purple ones.
Frogs are carnivorous, you are lucky that they did not attack your adults...
Yeah, found out the hard way. One of my previous frog had grown big enough to eat one of my adult crab. I have since released it. This time round I removed the frog before it got big enough. Its now together with my 2 green tree frogs.
Guys, I need your help if you come across any LFS selling red devil vampire crabs. All LFS that I went to (c328, seaview, qian hu, rainbow) only had the purple bicolour were out of stock.
Please let me know if you come across any. Looking for red devil variant only.
I will be starting a vampire breeding program in hopes to breed them. Will share more pics soon.
PS - Junneh, you still reading this thread?
Just want to share this lone survivng baby crab that I found in my tank. Decided to seperate in from the adults in case it got eaten.
Placed it in a container with water and a place for it to surface and left it alone for the weekend. I was glad I covered it as I found it this morning doing this:
Never expected them to be able to climb that high. Just a note of caution for future breeders - always cover your tank for baby crabs.
Some pics on my new breeding project that I would like to share.
Simple, cheaper transparent tupperware.
Fill the container with horti-soil. Make a small dish out of those containers for jelly.
KTP leaf and some branches for climbing/hiding.
Managed to get my hands on 5 red devil vampire females.
1 died on the way home in the bag so I was left with 4. Couple of them had 1 leg missing each. This setup will be used to 'condition' them up before I start the actual breeding.
Morning soak. Everything looking good with no causalities.
Small update. Came to office this morning with a pleasant surprise. One of my breeding containers had babies!
This is a test setup using water as substrate with money plants as land cover. The other breeding containers had soil substrate. Will continue to see if this triggers a faster breeding cycle. But most likely the female was already carrying eggs when it was moved into the setup.
I have since removed the adults to ensure the babies dont get eaten.
Congrats! what will you be feeding the babies?
I am not too sure about their diet as most of the time I just leave any babies I have alone in the main tank. Since this is a specific setup for the babies I plan to feed them with mini pellet food and dried bloodworms as I read they consume the same food as adults.
Heres a picture of the setup using water as substrate.
A sad update on one of my male vampire crab. Found him on his back in one of my breeding setups. Upon closer inspection, there was a molted shell in the water. I'm presuming that he died after molting due to fatigue or stress related issues.
Heres a side by side position of the dead crab with molted shell. I hate losing lifestock due to reasons beyond my control.
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