Micro Crabs in a Planted Tank with Apisto

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Hi guys,

I chanced upon micro crabs at one of the LFS and I am wondering if they would be safe in a fully planted tank with Apisto Inka.
It's a densely planted 3 feet tank and I think they would look really cool in my tank (if I can find them after putting them in).

Here's the list of Fauna in my tank.

Fire Red Shrimp
Apisto Inka
Apisto Borellii
Apisto Caca Triple Red Juveniles
Boraras Brigittae
Swaba Resplendens
Chocolate Gourami
Cleanup Crew (Amano Shrimps, Oto)
Assassin Snails
Threadfin Rainbow
Galaxy Rasbora
Red Neon Paskai
Pygmy Corys

Thanks in advance.

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Here's the tank.

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[Urban Aquaria]

Even if the micro crabs manage to successfully hide from the apistos (which will definitely eat them if they are spotted)... with that amount of plant density in your tank, the micro crabs will disappear forever into the plants. So once you introduce them into the tank, they are as good as invisible, if not already hunted and eaten up.

It will be better to just start another small tank just for the micro crabs (a 10 liter nano tank is more than sufficient to keep a group of them, they have incredibly low bio-loads), or put them into a breeder box or hang-on satellite box, so that you can at least get to observe them from time to time.

You can check out my thread on them (and their eventual shift to their own small tank): http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...-Micro-Crab%29