New Aquarium Critter! - How to Care for Amarinus Lacustris - Freshwater Spider Crabs
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Hi All,
Today I picked up some cool new critters, the Amarinus Lacustris aka Freshwater Spider Crabs aka micro crabs aka false spider crabs and much more.
There is very little information available on these awesome crabs so I thought it would be a good idea to collate what I have learned so far and document for future experimenting.
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I've found them in areas of mangrove rivers that have freshwater and brackish depending on tides. Usually the brackish water there is 0.02ppt
Thanks 🙏
glad you found a use for the stand lol. love the edit bluper at the end😋 very cool little crabs
Now I want crabs :P
Any physical characteristics differs this from Thai Micro crab? thx...great video.
they look sooooo amazing!!!!!!!! hahaha love the little guys!
Wow these crablets are super cool. Nice set up on the fly ✌️💞
Land hermit crab enthusiast here! (my time to shine somewhat)
Baby crabs are called zoea (usually they are free swimming, which forms part of the planktonic soup) and then goes through various zoea stages before the final stage, megalopa. From megalopa, they moult and become adults.
I'm not 100% sure if these guys have a free swimming stage - I think so, but dunno due to being freshwater they also likely not to - so I believe they are zoea.
( zoea as 'zoy-ee-ah' (or 'zoy-yah')...)
That rings a bell cheers 👍
The amarinus lacustris do not in fact have a zoea or larval stage, but are born like (exotic) shrimplets - fully formed miniature crabs. Really cool!
blake, i kinda love u for this. u get a sub. im gettin amarinus lacustris for my native biotope in a month or so, and freaking out cuz theyre so pricey and i dont wanna lose any. thankyouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
ohhhhhh lmao u say la-su-stris... i say it as 'la-ck-ustris. Have you heard others say it like that? Or is it just the way you think it's said?
@@caelanharamis5660 no basis for it just pronounced how i thought ut would be 🤷♂️ thanks for the kind words, have a great time keeping them, whatever they are called 😂
Those are some really cool crabs
Awesome awesome video mate, the scape looks great, great new additions to the fish room.
They are cool little crabs to keep, put some Hornwort in for them they love to climb up into it and it will bring them out a lot more for you Blake, I have about a dozen of them I collected out of the freshwater reaches of the Brisbane River a while back.
Awesome great tip, ill get on that
Do you have a video of the tank? I'd love to see it. I'm doing a biotope for them too. Using some locally collected submersed grasses, bacopa monnieri, mudmat (i mean its not as local but i had to...), and stocking with some native shrimp, the crabs, and possibly some pacific blue eyes (pseudomugil signifer) once the crabs are bigger.
@@caelanharamis5660 I haven't done one with them yet but I'd suggest if keeping them in a biotope and you want to see them use only a thin bed of gravel or sand otherwise you will hardly ever see them, they are nocturnal, If you use something like hornwort you don't need to plant it and they like to crawl through it so you will see them a lot more, you can anchor it down with a rock or some driftwood, I hope that helps, in the wild they stay buried most of the time and come out at night.
@@australianbiotopes4563 Alright thanks!!! I'll definitely do hornwort! I'll try to use rocks to hold the larger plants down. Lmk if you do make a video of the tank.
Good morning Blake.. oh my goodness... I saw something similar on I think Flip Aquatics.. here in the US.. I watched a video from Prime Time Aquatics where they got micro crabs..but there wasn't a lot about the care about them or any kind of history of them.. I didn't know if these are the same thing,?. they're super cool.. we've all gone crazy in love with shrimp.. now we got to set up a crab tanks😂😂!!! I absolutely love them and you set up a great tank for them.. I will definitely like watching your journey with these little buggers 👍♥️
Heg Mary I think the ones more widely available are thai micro crabs. Still super cool 👍
tiny little buggers but cool as all get out.
Would like to see a follow up on them in the future, what was the size of the tank? Thank you
Definitely. Its a 1ft / 30 cm cube but will eventually go into a 2ft / 60cm tank
Yo was keen to see your video on the Amarinus Lacustris, i was actually the first person in the world to sell tank raised and bred A. Lacustris :P hoping these get more widely bred in aquaria
Thats awesome well done 👏👏
@@BlakesAquatics Appreciated, felt so special and unique to bring a new species into the hobby!
I am in perth western Australia do you know if I would be able to get my hands on these
They can live in paludarium?
I want some
I heard they will live longer if the water had salt and some live plants.
i want to make a tank with these guys as a feature one day
Decaying leaf litter perhaps?
Yeah good idea ill throw in some mulberry leaves
#BlakesGotCrabs
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You beat me too it 😂
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@@gafam8500 I am an old grandma, so I just couldn't say it 😂😂😂😂
Mary Paige Flynn haha 😂
Make another fish room tour video please
I did one just 3 weeks ago
@@BlakesAquatics yea look at how many views it got. People love fish room tours and doing them regularly, eg once a month, gives us viewers a good feel for your tanks, more of a connection. Anyway up to you obviously but id consider a monthly update/tour. Love the channel either way.
Yeah i was thinking monthly or bi monthly, that one has only just been getting the views lately (500 in the last 48 hours) so i am cautious to upset the balance there with youtube pushing it out. Ill do another when that slows down i was thinking, or when i get my new camera in a couple weeks
@@BlakesAquatics cool, look forward to it
Any updates on them?
Haven't seen them since lol. ill have to take the rock out to check how theyre going
Awesome :D you're gunna make me wanna look into thai micro crabs again
these are awesome. Any updates?
Havent seen them since lol
@@BlakesAquatics hey Blake ...been a while since the video ...have u seen them again?
@@rosehill9537 unfortunately no I never saw them again 😑
@@BlakesAquatics oh no!! I just ordered some they arrive this week. Wish me luck! 😳
@@rosehill9537 good luck! I never saw them die or anything, just assumed they were in there until i packed up the tank for a rescape one day
Wish it was easier to get these in the US :/
where can we buy some of them??? ty ;)
Uhg they look like ticks, maybe tank mates for an aggressive Betta?
I guess a little bit 😂 nah theyd swiftly be eaten
@@BlakesAquatics Looks like they need harder water than a Betta would like anyway lol. go with guppies!
where abouts can i get them in geelong
Theres a gumtree seller in Newtown
There's a gumtree seller based in geelong, just took down their advertisement though (maybe cuz I asked for 10 to be held for me...).
Did you have success in breeding?
Unfortunately no I never saw them again
They are a real thing I really thought you where having a G up
Lol
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