WheatToast Tank Concept: Krabby Land

[WheatToast]

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I am pretty fixed on maintaining my macroalgae tank for now, but keep thinking about tank concepts all the time and I thought it would be fun to post another one. Have any thoughts/feedback on this hypothetical crab tank? Thanks all!

Tank and equipment:
- Aqueon Standard 55-gallon Tank
- AquaClear 110
- Macro Aqua M-50 HOB Protein Skimmer
- Eheim Jager 250 Watt
- AQUANEAT Aquarium Thermometer
- Jebao RW-8 with anemone cover
- Reef LED lighting (don't know much about brands)

Aquascape:
- Australian Live Rock
- Hawaiian Black Arag-Alive! (2" sand bed)
- Penn Plax Krusty Krab Ornament
- Many, many, many empty shells

Macroalgae:
- Encrusting, branching, and plating coralline algae (Corallinales sp.)
- Burgundy crust algae (Peyssonnelia sp.)
- Rusty rock (Hildenbrandia rubra)

Fish:
- None

Other invertebrates:
- Bubble-tip anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor)

True crabs (Brachyura):
- Strawberry crab (Liomera sp.)
- Pom-pom crab (Lybia sp.)
- Emerald crab (Mithraculus sculptus)
- Ruby red crab (Mithrax ruber)
- Pitho crab (Pitho mirabilis)
- Guard crab (Trapezia sp.) (I hear a coral host is not necessary)

Other crabs (Anomura):
- Electric blue hermit crab (Calcinus elegans)
- Dwarf zebra hermit crab (Calcinus laevimanus)
- Halloween hermit crab (Ciliopagurus strigatus)
- Dwarf blue leg hermit crab (Clibanarius tricolor)
- Dwarf red tip hermit crab (Clibanarius digueti)
- Porcelain anemone crab (Neopetrolisthes ohshimai)
- Scarlet reef hermit crab (Paguristes cadenati)
- Porcelain crab (Petrolisthes galathinus)

 

[JoJosReef]

Interesting concept. Do you think a 55g is needed for this? You could have an army of pitho crabs...

 

[WheatToast]

Interesting concept. Do you think a 55g is needed for this? You could have an army of pitho crabs...

Thanks! I was thinking about having a large diversity of different crabs with a lot of vertical climbing space (now that I think about it, a 60-gallon standard tank would work better).

 

[Lavey29]

sounds like crabfest at the Red Lobster restaurant.

 

[afrokobe]

Theoretically, if you had crabs (say blue crabs) spawn in your tank and then grew big. Would you feel comfortable eating them?

 

[Mschmidt]

Thanks! I was thinking about having a large diversity of different crabs with a lot of vertical climbing space (now that I think about it, a 60-gallon standard tank would work better).

Interesting idea for sure. a 75 would give you the same footprint as the 60 with the vertical of the 55.

I can't say either way, but how would those hermits get along with each other?

 

[Sink_or_Swim]

My ruby red is EVIL INCARNATE. Just a warning, lol.

 

[Cell]

Sounds like a corals worst nightmare!