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Posted by swarvegorilla on September 22, 2006, 7:42 am
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>> I'm also a big fan of various sorts of crabs. I was wondering does
>> anyone have any experience putting crabs into a Cichlid tank and if so,
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> Many freshwater and brackish crabs like to live in the shallows where they
> have access to land.
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> At work we have kept various types of crabs in our African display tank,
> but they all tend to hang out near the top of the aquarium where they
> reach
> the surface of the water.
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> We've had red Asian crabs, moon crabs (really big), and rainbow crabs
> (looks like but is not a true crab) as well as various types of crayfish
> (aka freshwater lobster). I don't have their Latin names unfortunately.
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> Most of them time they get along fine with African cichlids, but
> occasionally a large or really belligerent fish destroys the odd
> crustacean.
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I had problems with 'joker mouths' on my cichlids when I tried the crayfish
seems some fish swim into caves occupied by clawed ones and get cut like
that
shame too as ruins ya chicks with africans
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> intake for the filter. He eventually put chickenwire over his tank.