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Posted: November 16 2004 at 10:13pm |
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Hi! I've just found this website and have found in interesting so
far. My sweetie and I have 1 3yo dsh black cat named Bat, a
fiddler crab named Crabalita (creative, no?) and we are the proud
owners of 2 Halloween Crabs, as of today. We saw them in a store
last week and fell in love.
I've been doing some reading online (because finding crab books, aside
from the odd hermit crab book, is impossible) about these beauties, but
still have questions.
There is another thread here about halloween hermit crabs, from
Hawaii(sp?), which are different, I gather, from Halloween crabs/moon
crabs(from Costa Rica). Our guys definately don't look like they
need a shell to hide in!
I'd love to hear your crab keeping insights. Are there any web
sites you suggest? Books? I live in Ontario, Canada, if
that helps. I love having them around us, and want to do
everything I can to keep them happy and healthy!
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Posted: November 17 2004 at 6:38am |
The halloween crabs we have are a type of hermit crab that live inside
a salt water reef aquarium (fish and corals in the aquarium, and rocks
from the ocean make it a 'reef'). They are pretty cool, and never
come out of the water, neet to have except mine bull dozes things over
as he journeys around the tank at night. Glad to have you here,
and keep reading everything you can, we'll make a believer out of you
yet  .
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Was that in there yesterday? Casper--WY windier than ?
Down to a 20, soon to double or nothing
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Posted: November 17 2004 at 8:01am |
Welcome to the site Rockinkitty!
That's all I have to say since I don't know anything about halloween crabs.
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Posted: November 17 2004 at 8:18am |
No input from me either except WELCOME! 
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Rockinkitty
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Posted: November 17 2004 at 8:42am |
 Crazy Tarzan wrote:
They are pretty cool, and never
come out of the water, neet to have except mine bull dozes things over
as he journeys around the tank at night.
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Yes...ours have yet to do more than scoot around the water in attempts
to check it out. Ours are also known, probably more commonly, as
Moon Crabs.
It's frustrating there isn't more info around. But I'll keep looking!
Thanks, everyone, for the warm welcome!
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Posted: November 17 2004 at 4:06pm |
Welcome! We like to have Rockinkitties on the board. I have a cute crab that I named "Fozzy." Like Fozzy Bear from the Muppets. He's a fuzzy looking anemone crab. I wish I knew good info for you, but there are a ton of smart people on this board. It's a matter of time until one of the cool smart people finds this post.  So what kind of tank do you keep your crabs in? Everyone loves pictures here... maybe you could post one?
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Posted: November 17 2004 at 4:22pm |
Boy do I have to answer ALL the non reef Q's.
From what I can tell they are a land crab. I have had asians and thiland. The first I have seen from haloween. But I am ready to grab some myself. They naturally hang out in the beaches next to the ocean in burrows. In high tide they search for food. low tide they hang out and "breath" They need to have access to the air. The ones I ahve seen prefer to have the air more than the water. They have a way of recirculating the water around the outside of there bodies to gather o2 but technically have gills.
They are ecape artists. REALLY. Plan for it. they should eat anything that you give them. they prefer meaty foods as they are dead scavengers naturally. But flake food and shrimp pellets are ok.
What else do yuo want to know.
Like the pic?
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I will just give my warning that your system will flood, bulbs will burn out, and things will take continuous maintenance... get over it.
Magna
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Posted: November 17 2004 at 4:26pm |
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I will just give my warning that your system will flood, bulbs will burn out, and things will take continuous maintenance... get over it.
Magna
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Posted: November 18 2004 at 6:48am |
That was the first site I looked at. I guess I was hoping for
more clear advice on how to heat them, what temps, what kind of home to
give them, I just don't want to hurt them.
That page, actually, is about the only one I've found that makes a
distinction between Halloween and Rainbow crabs. Finding out the
species of these guys is proving very difficult, as I prefer to not
trust the pet store too much. And the pic I saw of a Moon crab
(the latin name was something lunaris?) was the colour of ash.
I would post piscs, but I'm not sure how to do that here.
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Posted: November 18 2004 at 6:41pm |
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make the pics small and click the camera icon in the upper right
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I will just give my warning that your system will flood, bulbs will burn out, and things will take continuous maintenance... get over it.
Magna
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Posted: November 25 2004 at 10:47pm |
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Here we go...Pics of Sam and Ralph, and our kitty Bat. Hrm...and
our Thanksgiving Day turkey that was too big for the pan.
www.photobucket.com/albums/v514/Rockinkitty/
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 1:39pm |
you can post pics here 
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I will just give my warning that your system will flood, bulbs will burn out, and things will take continuous maintenance... get over it.
Magna
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Posted: November 26 2004 at 9:29pm |
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I tried and was unable :( That was the best I could do.
Is that how big your crab is now? He's so small! Sam's and
Ralph's bodies are easily 2.5-3 inches in diameter, leg span is much
bigger.
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Posted: November 27 2004 at 7:58am |
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Best I can input is they are related to the red land crabs and are generally found living in trees unless it's during mating season they are beach bound. They're more herbivore than carnivore, but are opportunistic feeders. An ambient temp of 75-80* is ok(65-70 night and 80-90 day) and a relative humidity of 60-75%. A home that allows both width for movement on ground and height for climbing(with a piece of tropical tree bark or sandblasted grape vine to climb on).
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Posted: November 27 2004 at 2:55pm |
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my guy is tiny. But thats ok.
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I will just give my warning that your system will flood, bulbs will burn out, and things will take continuous maintenance... get over it.
Magna
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Posted: November 27 2004 at 4:12pm |
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He'll grow... they get relatively large.
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Posted: November 27 2004 at 5:54pm |
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Im with Wiemers there are tons of people here that are way to SMRT and know things no other human should, an anemone crab as well, which is the coolest kind of crab but second is the halloween crab there is a guy at my work who has two of them in a tank in his office and they "chirp" back and forth to each other i never see him though but if i do ill ask him some advice aslo welocome to the club RK
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All I do is fly planes and look at this stupid website.
Admit you have a problem
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Posted: November 27 2004 at 6:06pm |
How fun are these crabs? I mean can you pick them up and hold them etc, or will they tend to become defensive and pinch you or scuttle away? What do you do if one gets out? Start leaving baited traps around the house to catch them again? Just wondering. Nate
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Posted: November 28 2004 at 9:55am |
danhenrie wrote:
Im with
Wiemers there are tons of people here that are way to SMRT and
know things no other human should, an anemone crab as well, which is
the coolest kind of crab but second is the halloween crab there is a
guy at my work who has two of them in a tank in his office and they
"chirp" back and forth to each other i never see him though but if i do
ill ask him some advice aslo welocome to the club RK |
Not sure what Wiemers or SMRT are, but thanks for the welcome
anyways! I have yet to hear chirping, but they do blow bubbles at
times. I'd love to hear what your friend has to say.
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Posted: November 28 2004 at 10:08am |
Weimers is a member. SMRT i think is smart. 
Crazy tarzan, No you can't pet them like a kitty. there a crab after all.... kinda crabby.Oh and give him the option to climb outa the water and I bet he will. Just away from a wall...
If one does get loose in theory you are caposed to put a small lid of water down with a sponge. They need the moisture and will go to it. My cats have always helped me. They think they are a little scary to just eat, but they sure talk to them.
I have had asian and thiland land crabs, redclaw's, fiddlers, blue and regular "lobsters" None in a natural land environment.
My little guy is Da**ed to a very small tank right now, she doesn't want him with the turtles. I don't know why "cuz" is my answer .
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I will just give my warning that your system will flood, bulbs will burn out, and things will take continuous maintenance... get over it.
Magna
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