![]() I fed crab #2 with algae wafers not specific to crabs, which he loved, but which I now suspect might have been harmful due to trace amounts of copper sulfate listed in the ingredients. Specifically:ġ) Should I feed him, and if yes, exactly what? When I bought crab #1 I was told that they did not require feeding, so I never fed him. Please, if you've succeeded at not killing a pom pom crab, I would appreciate any guidance you can offer regarding the successful care of these fascinating little critters. I'm nervous that this pom pom crab will also die. Regardless, they're gone now.Ģ) My old heater was malfunctioning at the time of crab #2, so the tank was experiencing drastic temp fluctuations. The tank PH was never crazy when they were in there, but of course the crabs (and LillI the snail) both loved to hang out *inside* the bigger shells, so. I now know that seashells can raise the PH too high, which could have killed my crabs. Changes to my setup since crab #2:ġ) For a long time I had seashells in the tank. My tank parameters consistently test as ideal, but they always have so I'm not sure there's any real value in that. The other day I decided to try again, and bought crab #3. Then he died very suddenly for no apparent reason. He was energetic and entertaining, eating well, and constantly scurrying around and happily burrowing in the gravel for almost three weeks. I went to my LFS to get a new snail a week after the first one died, and saw that the store had gotten a shipment of pom pom crabs! Still smitten with the adorable little guys, and convinced it was surely the nasty mean soil that had killed the first one, not my perfectly cycled and thriving aquarium, I bought crab #2.Ĭrab #2 seemed to be doing much better than crab #1. After he died, I switched back to gravel. I believe that crab #1 broke his claws off trying to burrow in the waterlogged soil. Poor LillI :< I mention this because I still don't know for sure that crab #1 and the snail's deaths were related.)Īnyway, this summer I had tried my hand at aquascaping with Tropica aquarium soil. (Note: I had had the nerite for eight months and she had seemed happy, but she had recently gotten trapped in the aquarium lid next to my LEDs and spent a couple of days stuck there before I found her. My nerite at the time had been looking poorly too, and when I came back from a long weekend out of town I discovered that both were dead. The crab promptly lost one claw, then the other, and then he died. I have twice tried to introduce a pom pom crab to my tank, and both times the crab died after a couple of weeks. I dose with Seachem Prime at water changes and 0.5mL of Seachem Flourish daily. It is adequately filtered ( corner filter) and heated to 78°. The aquarium houses one mature male betta and one nerite snail, as well as a small population of detritus worms, rhabdocoela, and copepods. Substrate is gravel and sand purchased from my LFS. I have an established 5-gallon cube tank planted with flame moss, anubias, two moss balls, and some extremely persistent riccia. Detailed information on keeping pom pom crabs is hard to find. Hello there, experienced aquarists, and especially anyone who has successfully kept a pom pom crab alive for more than a month.
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