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Climbing Glass Ceiling
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:05 pm
by jclee
Re: Climbing Glass Ceiling
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:48 pm
by LadyJinglyJones
* Spider crab, spider crab, radioactive spider crab *
Re: Climbing Glass Ceiling
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 1:59 am
by Flandry
We've got a crab that did exactly the same thing in our previous tank. I was too fascinated watching to get my camera, so good thinking on your part! It was yet more incentive for us to get a taller tank!
Re: Climbing Glass Ceiling
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:39 pm
by jclee
Flandry wrote:We've got a crab that did exactly the same thing in our previous tank. I was too fascinated watching to get my camera, so good thinking on your part! It was yet more incentive for us to get a taller tank!
Hahaha. I try to make every space climbable, which is part of the surprise when they're able to use the one space I thought they would not.
Re: Climbing Glass Ceiling
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:49 pm
by Kermie16
Love it when they do that!!
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Re: Climbing Glass Ceiling
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 12:22 pm
by GotButterflies
Great pics!
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Re: Climbing Glass Ceiling
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 1:45 am
by Hermiesguardian
So I heard some scraping sound and hoped it was one of them in the hamster wheel finally. I looked and looked. Then freaked out when I saw Derek crawling upside down on the mesh lid. This is the best picture I could get.
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Re: Climbing Glass Ceiling
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 9:18 am
by jclee
They are quite the climbers!
Re: Climbing Glass Ceiling
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2019 11:32 pm
by arosenbaum
So, my crab has been doing this (I thought it would be the only one before I found this thread), but I wake up in the middle of the night to frantic "tapping" of my crabs legs/claws on the glass lid of my tank. Somehow (I have no idea how) he gets up there, and then can't get down, so I have to gently take the lid off and set him back on the substrate (I'm still new to crabs and not comfortable with handling them for fear I would get pinched and drop them....so I just try to gently "dump" him off into the sand). I don't know how he gets up there nor do I really care, but he can't get down so I keep getting woken up in the middle of the night to have to get him down which is a little annoying....any tips??
Re: Climbing Glass Ceiling
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 6:49 am
by Scarletfire
I leave my crabs be when they climb the ceiling. Usually they have a destination in mind, or just likes the view.
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Re: Climbing Glass Ceiling
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 7:35 am
by Hermiesguardian
arosenbaum wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 11:32 pm
So, my crab has been doing this (I thought it would be the only one before I found this thread), but I wake up in the middle of the night to frantic "tapping" of my crabs legs/claws on the glass lid of my tank. Somehow (I have no idea how) he gets up there, and then can't get down, so I have to gently take the lid off and set him back on the substrate (I'm still new to crabs and not comfortable with handling them for fear I would get pinched and drop them....so I just try to gently "dump" him off into the sand). I don't know how he gets up there nor do I really care, but he can't get down so I keep getting woken up in the middle of the night to have to get him down which is a little annoying....any tips??
They can definately get down. They are also called tree climbers. Even if they fall it's no big deal. They love to climb.
Re: Climbing Glass Ceiling
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 12:18 pm
by Moe2076
I have 2 or 3 that like to climb. One day very shortly after I put them in the 20 G I had one climb about halfway along the top of the tank and then back again.
