@@crisgonzalez7Buying online isnt ideal they have a high death rate in shipping. Get them locally if you can. I assume you're in the US, if so Aquatic Arts seems to be the only really reliable one but they are almost always sold out. Whatever you don't don't fall for people selling them outside of your country they are primarily scammers and on the odd chance they do ship from whereevere they are your crabs will arrive dead.
@@crisgonzalez7 Is the exo a regular thing? I'd probably just wait until then or maybe see if any local facebook groups or something have any for sale.
Hey, nice videos i’m getting vampire crabs soon and your playlist has been my number1 go to, so thanks! I also wanted to ask you how often do you feed your crabs and how often do u change the water too considering the fact that ill probably get a water clean up team (shrimps and snails)
Thank you 😊 I generally feed them 3 times a week always something different. And water changes are usually about 30% every 2 weeks. Though early on after set up it do it weekly.
I'd choose the heat pad they are generally more energy efficient and work in darkness. You can't have a light on forever. As for placement. Usually the back or side on the outside of the glass is best. Just don't get a huge one they don't need to cover the entire surface of the tank.
Я сегодня сделала "котлетки" из фито глины. (Специальная глиносмесь с добавлением кальция для флорариумов и палюдариумов.) Новорождённые крабята исковыряли её. Они возвращались к ней снова и снова. Хотя до этого давала им творог и отдельно кальций. Видимо есть в ней что-то незаменимое.
It depends how many crabs you have i feed mine every couple of days but I have 50 or so crabs. But I try to feed enough so that is gone in 24 hours. I wouldn't worry about the springtails you can't have too many they are the absolute best thing going and your crabs will eat those as well. Mine will quite often sit near food just to eat the springtails.
How about using tenebrio molitor? I have plenty of them for my geckos and I was wondering if they are fine. I still havent got crabs, but I am quite intetested in getting some of them thanks to your channel
It depends how many you have but 3 times is usually plenty. But if you have the time you can do smaller amounts more often. The biggest thing is a really mixed diet.
Hey! I getting vampire crabs and I heard they get one feeding per day. So I can sprinkle and that’s the feeding for the day? And I have bloodworms, can you give me a schedule example of the feeding daily? Like what food per day? It’s just and example
You only really need to feed them every second or third day. They will graze on stuff in your tank if you have set it up correctly. As for what to feed them I always make it as random as possible so they get as much variety as possible.
Hi, can they sustain themselves on just springtails and other live food? I´m thinking about getting vampire crabs, but I often travel and sometimes I´m gone for 7-14 days. Is it possible to leave them for two weeks on just live food that is in the tank? Or is it a bad idea?
A couple of weeks is no problem just make sure you feed them up really well first then also leave some long terms food sources in the tank I usually use cabbage leaves lettuce and potato all slightly boiled.
Hey i'm gonna be gone for 2 weeks on a holiday what do you think i should do to keep my crabs well fed over those 2 weeks while no ones there to feed them
@@prathamsangurdekar3134 sounds pretty stable. I usually just feed a bit extra a few days before hand then put a bit of lettuce or cabbage leaf in. It doesn't go moldy and they pick at it slowly. They'll be fine for a few weeks if you have isopods and other critters in there
Really depends, they graze constantly but I usually leave the food in their for the microfuana to eat as well. I feed 3 times a week, random stuff from this list. The springtails and isopods eat the left overs before they get mouldy. If you see the food go mouldy reduce until it's gone before it gets mouly. It will take a little trial and error.
Yep, although the crabs don't spend so much time in the water they do need to jump in sometimes. And if the water is full of ammonia or nitrites they will have some problems. Nitrates a less of an issue but still should stay pretty low. It mostly only becomes an issue when they need to molt because that's when they spend a lot of time in the water preparing.
@@IndoorEcosystem okey thanks man ! My vampires had babies a few days ago and I saw one of the adults eating a baby so I panicked and quickly set up a small paludarium for theme and added theme straight away. I didn’t want theme to get eaten. Do you think it’s fine if I change the water every day or so and just keep an eye on theme?
@@terraquaman No problem 😊 I have a playlist for Vampire Crabs. Basically covers every question you'll ever have. They are highly cannibalistic so you need to take the adults away from the babies as soon as possible. But the babies are highly cannibalistic as well and will eat each other too. But that's kinda unavoidable. Just keep an eye on their sizes. If some get bigger than the others quite fast they will eat the smaller ones so you might need to move them. Feeding them regularly and a decent amount will reduce the cannibalisation a fair bit too. As for the water and an emergency tank you can seed it with beneficial bacteria from any established tank. Just use stuff from those tanks to help build a new one. Gravel rocks plants filter foam etc. Then just change the water 3 times per week about 40% is usually enough 🙂
I have a feeling my crabs ignore most of the food I give them in favor of springtails, but now I really have no idea whether they're eating enough. I will give them some fish food, or carrots/peas on occasion, but these foods are mostly left alone. Do you have any idea how much to feed per crab roughly? Can they sustain themselves on just springtails? I want to try more live foods but mealworms come in such large quantities I'm hesitant to buy them. After a number of casulties (likely due to too many males), I only had one crab left, and today it died too, it appeared to be in a position of feeding on springstails, can't help but wonder if he starved. Maybe it was something else, after he molted in january he had quite dull colors so maybe he was just old. One question I do have, and I hope it isn't a stupid one, do you remove food when it's left uneaten? I've assumed the springtails would get to it after some time, but for something like a chunck of carrot it can take like a week, might these leftover foods have been an issue? Would love to have more info before I try again with new crabs. I'm confident in my paludarium setup, so I really want to know if there's anything I've done that caused my crabs to die or if I just had back luck.
Sorry to hear you had so many losses :( Feeding them is pretty easy I just put in small amounts probably 3 times a week the same stuff you are adding. I just leave it in there forever. If the crabs don't eat it the springtails and everything else will. Nothing goes moldy or stays around long. I find the crabs generally eat stuff a few days after adding it. They don't like fresh stuff unless it is live food or freshly dead food like shrimp or fish. You can't over feed them which is good and they will eat springtails a lot!! Mine do the same. They just hang around old food to eat the springtails. Your last crab loss sounds like it might have been old age. Usually when the molt and have less colours it's age related but it could also be diet related. More vitamins and minerals would help but again it's hard to tell. I sprinkle cory sinking granuals in my tank every second day as well and sometimes fish flakes to shake things up. I find this is a good substitute for any other missed dietary things. I recently started using dried mealworms and they seem to be a big hit. I leave them in little piles and they are gone overnight so give them a go next time.
@@IndoorEcosystem thanks! It's reassuring to hear what i was doing has been mostly correct I'll try some other dead foods in the future. Going to the aquarium store tonight to order new crabs
@@IndoorEcosystem hehe fully aware! Sadly no stores near me stock the crabs directly, they order them so don't quite have the choice of specific crab. They're gonna do their best, and if all else fails they'll visit a convention in a month where he does have the freedom of choice. Hopefully then it will be good! At least now i have a second tank for separating problem individuals
I tried this with normal crickets but the sound of crickets drove me mad 😭😂 that's my biggest warning. Pin head crickets are a better option apparently but I've never tried them specifically. I'd say it's a 50/50 chance. Crickets might eat all your plants too.
Depends on the food. On a rock usually. With some I will sprinkle a tiny bit around the tank evenly or in litle piles so they don't all have to come to one spot to eat.
I want to build a tank for some vampire crabs but I can’t afford it. I’m going to try and build one similar to yours however I don’t know where I would get crabs anyway.
I have a video for a super cheap build you should checkout. It's cheap and works really well. You'll know by the thumbnail. You can pick up a second hand tank for next to nothing these days. Crabs are the most expensive part of the entire build usually. Especially if you can't get them locally and have to pay special transport costs.
It's normal the ecdysis take 3 days? My crab vampire is "frozen" on the water since 20/01. Well, doesn't have bad smell, and we think what she is having a little progress, but 2 days seeing this is hard, we think sometimes what she's dead :/ (I adopt her 7 days ago, because this I don't know many things)
Ok, I will keep to support her. Some minutes ago we see what she's broken the carapace on top and the bottom place (where have the abdomen), and she's "inflating". We have hope @@IndoorEcosystem
I've got for 2 weeks without any issues. I just feed them a bit more leading up to leaving then leave some boiled lettuce and cabbage in the tank. It doesn't seem to go mouldy. If you have your tank set up right they can live off all the critters and stuff in there as well.
@@thediplomat1124 the graze all day and night so just put some food in the tank and they'll eat it when ready. 😊 I hope your new crabs all arrive healthy and settle in well.
@@IndoorEcosystem thanks for answering. I live in northern Europe, and I thought our mosses needed a cold period to survive and grow... maybe that's not true
@@loftir-koftir I'm in Poland and have had a few tanks going for over a year without any issues of die off. I harvest hypnum and fern moss usually. They seem not to care from my experience so far. They don't like getting too wet though and love light. Some of the other species might be a little more delicate but I haven't really experimented with them yet.
@@IndoorEcosystem how do you make sure you don't get unwanted species in with the moss from outside? Do you propagate a long time or do you just pray and put them right in?
@@loftir-koftir I usually just harvest it then leave it sit outside on the concrete for a couple of hours then I soak it underwater for about 30 minutes. That get's most of the other critters out that I don't want. It's not entirely fool proof but I have been doing it for a few years and haven't had any problems with it. The crabs are pretty quick to eat anything alive that come out. I do the same with wood but it isn't as effective as some critters hide inside far enough to not be evicted. But the crabs eat them when they come out.
@@IndoorEcosystem Ok, so I fed my VC a small slice of fresh scallop. I fed her before and it went well. But 2 days back, I gave her a piece of scallop and she was happily eating. Yesterday I was shockd to see 2 legs dropped off and she was very weak. Subsequently, she is just sitting at one corner of my tank not doing anything much. To add, she molted two days back.
another thing, I doubt her legs dropped due to a fight. The only other crab is another female borneo blue and that one is a shy one. The tank is large enough so that they have their own personal space. i'm just trying to figure out why do legs suddenly drop.
@@jeremyyong8166 How long have you had them? Females still fight just a lot less often. I would stop feeding that just incase. Try some earthworms or dried or frozen insects for a while and see what happens. Sometimes they will drop their legs from stress or if something is wrong with them. It's hard to say exactly.
@@IndoorEcosystem yeah, it is really strange that the previous day, she was doing a cute crab dance on her moss, and next day, she loses two legs and is very sluggish. I had her for about 3 weeks. This is her first molt. This VC eats everything I give her except for dried food.
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What are you guys and girls feeding your Vampire Crabs? Anything I missed?
Does anyone know where to buy one online?
@@crisgonzalez7Buying online isnt ideal they have a high death rate in shipping. Get them locally if you can. I assume you're in the US, if so Aquatic Arts seems to be the only really reliable one but they are almost always sold out. Whatever you don't don't fall for people selling them outside of your country they are primarily scammers and on the odd chance they do ship from whereevere they are your crabs will arrive dead.
@@IndoorEcosystem I'm from Wilmington, and there are no stores nearby, the only crab I have was bought at an expo a year ago.
@@crisgonzalez7 Is the exo a regular thing? I'd probably just wait until then or maybe see if any local facebook groups or something have any for sale.
Hey, nice videos i’m getting vampire crabs soon and your playlist has been my number1 go to, so thanks! I also wanted to ask you how often do you feed your crabs and how often do u change the water too considering the fact that ill probably get a water clean up team (shrimps and snails)
Thank you 😊
I generally feed them 3 times a week always something different.
And water changes are usually about 30% every 2 weeks. Though early on after set up it do it weekly.
If the temp in my room is lower than it should be for the crabs do I use a heat pad or light? And where should I put it?
I'd choose the heat pad they are generally more energy efficient and work in darkness. You can't have a light on forever. As for placement. Usually the back or side on the outside of the glass is best. Just don't get a huge one they don't need to cover the entire surface of the tank.
They eat literally everything. I feed them tubifex, mealworm, hornworm, nightcrawler, cuttlebone, anything I throw into their tank they'll eat it.
Similar experience for me though there are quite a few things they prefer over others. Broccoli seems to be their least favourite thing so far.
@@IndoorEcosystem They're just like me for real
Love the vid man keep it up
Thank you ☺️😍
Vampire crabs have been on my list for a while now. Great video and lots of information 😊
They are super fun little creatures! You'll enjoy keeping them very much!
Trying to build a tank for some vampire crabs but I can’t afford it.
Nice video😍
WOW! Pleasure to have you stop by!
Thank you!
Я сегодня сделала "котлетки" из фито глины. (Специальная глиносмесь с добавлением кальция для флорариумов и палюдариумов.) Новорождённые крабята исковыряли её. Они возвращались к ней снова и снова. Хотя до этого давала им творог и отдельно кальций. Видимо есть в ней что-то незаменимое.
That sounds quite interesting. At least from what Google translated it too. The first one especially
How frequently would you feed with this kind of food? Im asking since I have an outbreak of springtales throughout my tank and I wouldn't want more.
It depends how many crabs you have i feed mine every couple of days but I have 50 or so crabs. But I try to feed enough so that is gone in 24 hours. I wouldn't worry about the springtails you can't have too many they are the absolute best thing going and your crabs will eat those as well. Mine will quite often sit near food just to eat the springtails.
@@IndoorEcosystem Thanks! Will keep all of that in mind!
How about using tenebrio molitor? I have plenty of them for my geckos and I was wondering if they are fine. I still havent got crabs, but I am quite intetested in getting some of them thanks to your channel
Hey how many times do i need to feed the crabs a week
It depends how many you have but 3 times is usually plenty. But if you have the time you can do smaller amounts more often. The biggest thing is a really mixed diet.
Hey! I getting vampire crabs and I heard they get one feeding per day. So I can sprinkle and that’s the feeding for the day? And I have bloodworms, can you give me a schedule example of the feeding daily? Like what food per day? It’s just and example
You only really need to feed them every second or third day. They will graze on stuff in your tank if you have set it up correctly. As for what to feed them I always make it as random as possible so they get as much variety as possible.
Hi, can they sustain themselves on just springtails and other live food? I´m thinking about getting vampire crabs, but I often travel and sometimes I´m gone for 7-14 days. Is it possible to leave them for two weeks on just live food that is in the tank? Or is it a bad idea?
A couple of weeks is no problem just make sure you feed them up really well first then also leave some long terms food sources in the tank I usually use cabbage leaves lettuce and potato all slightly boiled.
Hey i'm gonna be gone for 2 weeks on a holiday what do you think i should do to keep my crabs well fed over those 2 weeks while no ones there to feed them
Is your tank bio active with a nice selection of critters?
@@IndoorEcosystem it has bioactive soil with mites and isopods, variety of mosses don't have any idea about critters
@@prathamsangurdekar3134 sounds pretty stable. I usually just feed a bit extra a few days before hand then put a bit of lettuce or cabbage leaf in. It doesn't go moldy and they pick at it slowly. They'll be fine for a few weeks if you have isopods and other critters in there
@@IndoorEcosystem thank you so much!, I feel absolutely relieved. Love from India!!
@@IndoorEcosystem thank you so much!, I feel absolutely relieved. Love from India!!
Can you give me advice on the quantity of food for crabs? I'm not sure if I'm feeding them too much or too little
Really depends, they graze constantly but I usually leave the food in their for the microfuana to eat as well. I feed 3 times a week, random stuff from this list. The springtails and isopods eat the left overs before they get mouldy. If you see the food go mouldy reduce until it's gone before it gets mouly. It will take a little trial and error.
Do you need to cycle a paludarium before adding crabs to it ?
Yep, although the crabs don't spend so much time in the water they do need to jump in sometimes. And if the water is full of ammonia or nitrites they will have some problems. Nitrates a less of an issue but still should stay pretty low.
It mostly only becomes an issue when they need to molt because that's when they spend a lot of time in the water preparing.
@@IndoorEcosystem okey thanks man !
My vampires had babies a few days ago and I saw one of the adults eating a baby so I panicked and quickly set up a small paludarium for theme and added theme straight away. I didn’t want theme to get eaten.
Do you think it’s fine if I change the water every day or so and just keep an eye on theme?
@@terraquaman No problem 😊 I have a playlist for Vampire Crabs. Basically covers every question you'll ever have.
They are highly cannibalistic so you need to take the adults away from the babies as soon as possible. But the babies are highly cannibalistic as well and will eat each other too. But that's kinda unavoidable. Just keep an eye on their sizes. If some get bigger than the others quite fast they will eat the smaller ones so you might need to move them.
Feeding them regularly and a decent amount will reduce the cannibalisation a fair bit too.
As for the water and an emergency tank you can seed it with beneficial bacteria from any established tank. Just use stuff from those tanks to help build a new one. Gravel rocks plants filter foam etc.
Then just change the water 3 times per week about 40% is usually enough 🙂
@@IndoorEcosystem alright thank you very much 😀!
@@terraquaman You're very welcome! 🙂
I have a feeling my crabs ignore most of the food I give them in favor of springtails, but now I really have no idea whether they're eating enough. I will give them some fish food, or carrots/peas on occasion, but these foods are mostly left alone. Do you have any idea how much to feed per crab roughly? Can they sustain themselves on just springtails? I want to try more live foods but mealworms come in such large quantities I'm hesitant to buy them.
After a number of casulties (likely due to too many males), I only had one crab left, and today it died too, it appeared to be in a position of feeding on springstails, can't help but wonder if he starved. Maybe it was something else, after he molted in january he had quite dull colors so maybe he was just old.
One question I do have, and I hope it isn't a stupid one, do you remove food when it's left uneaten? I've assumed the springtails would get to it after some time, but for something like a chunck of carrot it can take like a week, might these leftover foods have been an issue?
Would love to have more info before I try again with new crabs. I'm confident in my paludarium setup, so I really want to know if there's anything I've done that caused my crabs to die or if I just had back luck.
Sorry to hear you had so many losses :(
Feeding them is pretty easy I just put in small amounts probably 3 times a week the same stuff you are adding. I just leave it in there forever. If the crabs don't eat it the springtails and everything else will. Nothing goes moldy or stays around long.
I find the crabs generally eat stuff a few days after adding it. They don't like fresh stuff unless it is live food or freshly dead food like shrimp or fish. You can't over feed them which is good and they will eat springtails a lot!! Mine do the same. They just hang around old food to eat the springtails.
Your last crab loss sounds like it might have been old age. Usually when the molt and have less colours it's age related but it could also be diet related. More vitamins and minerals would help but again it's hard to tell.
I sprinkle cory sinking granuals in my tank every second day as well and sometimes fish flakes to shake things up. I find this is a good substitute for any other missed dietary things.
I recently started using dried mealworms and they seem to be a big hit. I leave them in little piles and they are gone overnight so give them a go next time.
@@IndoorEcosystem thanks! It's reassuring to hear what i was doing has been mostly correct
I'll try some other dead foods in the future.
Going to the aquarium store tonight to order new crabs
@@justGoron If you can get smaller ones they will usually be younger and obviously don't mix any colours 🙂
@@IndoorEcosystem hehe fully aware! Sadly no stores near me stock the crabs directly, they order them so don't quite have the choice of specific crab.
They're gonna do their best, and if all else fails they'll visit a convention in a month where he does have the freedom of choice. Hopefully then it will be good!
At least now i have a second tank for separating problem individuals
@@justGoron sounds good! I'm curious what you end up scoring. But patience is a good thing to have!
Hey awesome video i was wondering if i add crickets and they start to breed would the crabs beable to keep the crickets population in check
I tried this with normal crickets but the sound of crickets drove me mad 😭😂 that's my biggest warning. Pin head crickets are a better option apparently but I've never tried them specifically. I'd say it's a 50/50 chance. Crickets might eat all your plants too.
Do you give them anything extra for calcium? Or do they have enough from the foods and vegetables you're feeding?
Just this mix of everything and the fresh food. They consume their molts as well so get plenty of calcium from that.
@@IndoorEcosystem Cool. Thank you
Normally where u place the food ?
Depends on the food. On a rock usually. With some I will sprinkle a tiny bit around the tank evenly or in litle piles so they don't all have to come to one spot to eat.
I want to build a tank for some vampire crabs but I can’t afford it. I’m going to try and build one similar to yours however I don’t know where I would get crabs anyway.
I have a video for a super cheap build you should checkout. It's cheap and works really well. You'll know by the thumbnail. You can pick up a second hand tank for next to nothing these days. Crabs are the most expensive part of the entire build usually. Especially if you can't get them locally and have to pay special transport costs.
What kind of raw fish do you suggest?
Fresh water species would be best the same with shrimp.
It's normal the ecdysis take 3 days? My crab vampire is "frozen" on the water since 20/01. Well, doesn't have bad smell, and we think what she is having a little progress, but 2 days seeing this is hard, we think sometimes what she's dead :/
(I adopt her 7 days ago, because this I don't know many things)
Doesn't sound very good unfortunately. If she starts to float she's gone.
Ok, I will keep to support her. Some minutes ago we see what she's broken the carapace on top and the bottom place (where have the abdomen), and she's "inflating". We have hope @@IndoorEcosystem
@@gcorreaxd fingers crossed 😊
What's the name of the plant at 6:53?
The big one? It's a półka dot plant. There's lots of colour varieties as well.
Do you have tips on what to do if you go on vacation? Basically, how many days can go by before you'd need to get someone to feed your buddies?
I've got for 2 weeks without any issues. I just feed them a bit more leading up to leaving then leave some boiled lettuce and cabbage in the tank. It doesn't seem to go mouldy. If you have your tank set up right they can live off all the critters and stuff in there as well.
@@IndoorEcosystem makes sense, ty!
@@thediplomat1124 You're welcome 🙂
@IndoorEcosystem my crabs are finally coming in Friday! I'm so excited 😊 I also meant to ask a while ago, is there "good" time to feed crabs?
@@thediplomat1124 the graze all day and night so just put some food in the tank and they'll eat it when ready. 😊 I hope your new crabs all arrive healthy and settle in well.
Great video! What type of moss is it 6:20 that the crab is standing on ? Thanks!
Thanks ☺️ that is Hypnum moss. One of the most common types you can find in the forest here in Europe. They eat most mosses and love grazing on it.
@@IndoorEcosystem thanks for answering. I live in northern Europe, and I thought our mosses needed a cold period to survive and grow... maybe that's not true
@@loftir-koftir I'm in Poland and have had a few tanks going for over a year without any issues of die off. I harvest hypnum and fern moss usually. They seem not to care from my experience so far. They don't like getting too wet though and love light. Some of the other species might be a little more delicate but I haven't really experimented with them yet.
@@IndoorEcosystem how do you make sure you don't get unwanted species in with the moss from outside? Do you propagate a long time or do you just pray and put them right in?
@@loftir-koftir I usually just harvest it then leave it sit outside on the concrete for a couple of hours then I soak it underwater for about 30 minutes. That get's most of the other critters out that I don't want. It's not entirely fool proof but I have been doing it for a few years and haven't had any problems with it. The crabs are pretty quick to eat anything alive that come out. I do the same with wood but it isn't as effective as some critters hide inside far enough to not be evicted. But the crabs eat them when they come out.
Are there any foodstuff that we absolutely shouldn't feed vampire crabs?
Probably yes, but I haven't come across anything yet. Though I'm also not pushing the limits with random things because I don't want any dying.
@@IndoorEcosystem Ok, so I fed my VC a small slice of fresh scallop. I fed her before and it went well. But 2 days back, I gave her a piece of scallop and she was happily eating. Yesterday I was shockd to see 2 legs dropped off and she was very weak. Subsequently, she is just sitting at one corner of my tank not doing anything much. To add, she molted two days back.
another thing, I doubt her legs dropped due to a fight. The only other crab is another female borneo blue and that one is a shy one. The tank is large enough so that they have their own personal space. i'm just trying to figure out why do legs suddenly drop.
@@jeremyyong8166 How long have you had them? Females still fight just a lot less often. I would stop feeding that just incase. Try some earthworms or dried or frozen insects for a while and see what happens.
Sometimes they will drop their legs from stress or if something is wrong with them. It's hard to say exactly.
@@IndoorEcosystem yeah, it is really strange that the previous day, she was doing a cute crab dance on her moss, and next day, she loses two legs and is very sluggish. I had her for about 3 weeks. This is her first molt. This VC eats everything I give her except for dried food.