fully aquatic freshwater crabs?

**slikpizz** · 1st Apr 2009, 11:34

Is there such an ornamental crab species for sale in SG?

thinking of keeping with my shrimps. think it will be cool

**doppelbanddwarf** · 1st Apr 2009, 11:58

Crabs might treat your shrimps as food.

**lucasjiang** · 1st Apr 2009, 15:58

you can try heterothelphusa fatum. i am keeping it with a few shrimps and it is normally too slow to catch the shrimps. it catches the shrimps only once in a blue moon.

**joydiv** · 2nd Apr 2009, 01:04

You can try spider crabs as well, google it. It is small and cute.

**slikpizz** · 2nd Apr 2009, 11:36

googled the image of heterothelphusa fatum. look quite big!

anyidea where i can get spider crabs locally?

so small and cute. fully aquatic hor?

**joydiv** · 2nd Apr 2009, 11:55

The freshwater spider crabs, Limnopilos naiyanetri, are fully aquatic and are really rare and hard to find. I think you will need to import them from overseeas. There are exporters from Thailand and Indonesia.

Good luck.

**inque** · 3rd Apr 2009, 13:35

Aegla or Aegla sp. argentina saw this on a web looks very exotic

**Aria** · 3rd Apr 2009, 23:28

Originally Posted by joydiv

The freshwater spider crabs, Limnopilos naiyanetri, are fully aquatic and are really rare and hard to find. I think you will need to import them from overseeas. There are exporters from Thailand and Indonesia.

Good luck.

I wonder why these crabs are not more popular / available. Are they hard to keep?

**joydiv** · 4th Apr 2009, 13:47

They shouldnt be too hard to keep i guess, what I know is they are hard to find in the wild. So supply of this crab is limited with most if not all ending up in Europe.

**Aria** · 4th Apr 2009, 17:54

Originally Posted by joydiv

They shouldnt be too hard to keep i guess, what I know is they are hard to find in the wild. So supply of this crab is limited with most if not all ending up in Europe.

Thanks

Do you know if they can be tank bred?