Should I put live plants in my Vampire crab tank

**Tolkiennerd** · 25th Jul 2011, 01:08

I have a 25 gallon tank with about 3.5 to 4 gallons of water in it and was wondering if I could put plants in it or will they just get destroyed.

**cdckjn** · 25th Jul 2011, 19:54

These vampire crabs are savengers, so they do eat the plants, slowly.

**roark** · 27th Jul 2011, 22:00

They do very little damage to plants in my tank with Java Moss, Java Fern, HC and anubias nanas. I've seen them grazing off the plants (not sure if they actually eat the plants or the micro-organism) but never much damage. They seem to like having the shade and hides among the ferns and nanas.

**Shaihulud** · 30th Jul 2011, 15:37

They don't seems to eat the plants I put in, or to maybe not to a noticeable extent.
I mainly grow some mosses, anubias and artillery fern.

**David Moses Heng** · 30th Jul 2011, 23:13

These guys do consume plants in the wild. But i believe the damage is very small. I have christmas moss in my neon vampire tank and they are still there. In my previous set ups, I also remember putting in java moss and they don't seems to consume them. However I would not say the same for Spider crabs...