King Kambrook posted:

The question I've always wondered, is when crabs get drunk, do they walk forwards or backwards?

The Dregs posted:

I spent way too much money for way too long in the reef tank hobby. The worst part is that what really brought me the most joy in my various reeftanks was watching the armies of cheap little hermit crabs you put in there to clean things. These guys are like 3/dollar. They spend their days loving each other up, shell jacking each other's homes, and scaling the rockwork, performing death-defying acts of mountain climbing, which almost always leads to them falling.

Now I want another reeftank.

Ashmole posted:

I'm still incredibly fascinated by this video

ekuNNN posted:

The Dregs posted:

Seriously you assholes have me looking up liveaquaria.com i don't need this.

Linux Pirate posted:

Ashmole posted:

I'm still incredibly fascinated by this video

Admiral Ray posted:

CRab gotta eat too

Have Blue posted:

Something's definitely wrong with me. I can't stop giggling while watching it. It's some pitch black humor poo poo and I love it.

gender illusionist posted:

I'm loving how they use their giant fight claws to daintily eat fruit

ContraBoss posted:

Sometimes, I like to fan a slice of pizza over the tank and watch his antennae go apeshit as he searches for a pizza-flavored carcass.

ContraBoss posted:

Anyways, I really dig your war-crab concept and would totally put something like that on my desk, or cubicle shelf etc...

Back to CRAAAAABS!!!!


Did you know those little red-claw crabs they sell at pet stores and aquariums aren't meant to be totally submerged all the time in fresh water? Anyone who had these little fellas quickly found out how quirky and mischievous they can get when they constantly try to escape or make a home out of the aquarium filter housing unit. That's because they need to breathe air! They do not thrive underwater, they simply need access to water at all times, like an amphibian. Even then, it's supposed to be brackish water! Oy vey!

ContraBoss posted:

***INCOMING CRABS!***

Here are some random photos from the past 3 years of my crabitat:



Here is Smee riding atop of Jojo, something not so uncommon that happens to him.


Maggie Moo is ever vigilant. Whenever I let Jojo roam, I have to lock her out of the room, otherwise she immediately takes the opportunity to bat around the poor crab like one of her toys!


Captain Snips! She's a feisty little rear end-pirate. Whenever I pick her up, she retracts into her shell like they typically do, but starts angrily trying to grab anything she can in her big claw. Even when I set her down on my palm, she's determined to get a piece of my flesh in her grip. I can't stop getting owned by crabs!


This is a more recent pic of Smee and the crabitat. She's grown quite a bit and has moved into even larger shells this past year. I sprinkle chia, birdseed, and quinoa into the terrarium and they readily sprout on the moss, providing a really enriching environment for the crabbies. It's basically a little ecosystem in there. There's pillbugs, crickets, small spiders, springtails, nematodes and fungus gnats that thrive in there and sort of complete a little cycle in there. The crabs obviously poo poo, and anything they don't eat that isn't too big or gross gets broken down by the various scavenging organisms in the tank, which makes for some fertile substrate for moss I gather from the woods and periodic seeds I throw in there for food and decor!


This is the best pic I could get on my phone of my current setup. My goal is to make a bigger, crabbier paradise someday once we move out of our apartment.

I'm going to upload a video of one of them changing shells, but I gotta edit out my dumb-rear end remark first.

gender illusionist posted:

I'm loving how they use their giant fight claws to daintily eat fruit

etalian posted:

Imagine spending the whole day working at crab auschwitz, especially those guys at the beginning spending the whole shift loading Mr Crab on the conveyer belt.

Have Blue posted:

good crab good album

OXBALLS DOT COM posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpqQ1WCTYGE
Content Warning: crab death

Ashmole posted:

I'm still incredibly fascinated by this video

Grizzwold posted:

I would not want to mess with this crab.

the black husserl posted:

one of my favorite pieces of art is all crabs

ai weiwei - river crab

the black husserl posted:

one of my favorite pieces of art is all crabs

ai weiwei - river crab

Have Blue posted:

Something's definitely wrong with me. I can't stop giggling while watching it. It's some pitch black humor poo poo and I love it.