Oldie coming back for new info.

[mool]

Hey Y'all,

I've been keeping crabs for a long time and for a while I fell into rescuing, rehabbing and rehoming them. This was back in 2011-ish? I don't remember. I passed most of my crabs on to new owners before my divorce in 2013. Pre-divorce I had literally 100's of crabs in 20-30 tanks all over the house.

I kept one 40G breeder tank with about 5 crabs. It's been set up without much change since before 2010. I think I have 5 crabs. I haven't seen them all at once in years, so I'm not sure. My last known death was of my 2nd largest in a baseball size shell. I just found it dead one day that was 3-4 years ago.

Anyway, I haven't changed my crab keeping methods in over 10 years, probably longer. Their substrate is all compacted and I want to update the tank by adding new sub and more modern decor. What are y'all doing for your tanks nowadays? I have a pile of wood, a shell shop, and two pools of water.

What's new and exciting in crabitat decor? Help a gal and her old crabs out!

[curlysister]

I have had my crabs for ten years too. Honestly not a lot has changed as far as the basics - and if it's still working for you, don't make any drastic changes!

Kids these days have come up with some cool décor things LOL - check out MotorCrab's (and his partner Xenocrab) posts and store - they are masters of plastic canvas. And AussieJJ has a plant guide that is very comprehensive, it's new-ish over in the care sheets section.

[mool]

Thanks! "Back in the Day" plastic was a no-no in crabs tanks, especially PVC. Metal of any kind was also the devil! I think the only allowable plastic was wedding cake pillars--so that's different! Even plastic water bowls were "outgassing pools of death" or some such.

[curlysister]

LOL, one of my pet peeves is people using the word 'toxic' for anything they think is harmful. But I think 'pools of death' is now my favorite term!