Baby vampire crabs as puffer food?

[Barncat]

Hey everyone,

I watch a lot of videos across animal husbandry in general and I've noticed that freshwater vampire crabs breed like rabbits! These predatory little crabs need to be kept in a freshwater paludarium but they seem to produce a LOT of babies so I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried utilizing them as puffer fish food (or predator fish food) in general. They seem like a potentially good crunchy food source so long as you don't feed off the parent crabs. (Apparently one male, two females is a good ratio and it isn't advised to mix species.)

Anyone done this? I'm contemplating a toby puffer for my future upgrade tank and I was thinking baby vamp crabs and ramshorn snails would make good puffer snacks!

 

[rhitee93]

I'll bump this to see what people say. I've wondered the same thing about crayfish.

 

[Barncat]

I'll bump this to see what people say. I've wondered the same thing about crayfish.

Thank you!!!

 

[jayden kolonne]

Hey everyone,

I watch a lot of videos across animal husbandry in general and I've noticed that freshwater vampire crabs breed like rabbits! These predatory little crabs need to be kept in a freshwater paludarium but they seem to produce a LOT of babies so I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried utilizing them as puffer fish food (or predator fish food) in general. They seem like a potentially good crunchy food source so long as you don't feed off the parent crabs. (Apparently one male, two females is a good ratio and it isn't advised to mix species.)

Anyone done this? I'm contemplating a toby puffer for my future upgrade tank and I was thinking baby vamp crabs and ramshorn snails would make good puffer snacks!

I've kept the crabs before and I had a hard time with them, I would recommend the snails honestly, you can try both but if your doing one i would set up a 20 breeder with random logs and rocks from outside, 24 hour light 78 degree water, medium flow, 10 of them in there, you will need to buy MORE puffers because of how fast they breed, I'm not even joking, when the adults have an empty tank there will be 20 egg sacs on the glass the next day.

 

[littlefoxx]

Hey everyone,

I watch a lot of videos across animal husbandry in general and I've noticed that freshwater vampire crabs breed like rabbits! These predatory little crabs need to be kept in a freshwater paludarium but they seem to produce a LOT of babies so I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried utilizing them as puffer fish food (or predator fish food) in general. They seem like a potentially good crunchy food source so long as you don't feed off the parent crabs. (Apparently one male, two females is a good ratio and it isn't advised to mix species.)

Anyone done this? I'm contemplating a toby puffer for my future upgrade tank and I was thinking baby vamp crabs and ramshorn snails would make good puffer snacks!

My puffer loves shrimp and LRS chunky blend as well as clams! He never went for any live food I tried to feed him.

 

[Barncat]

I've kept the crabs before and I had a hard time with them, I would recommend the snails honestly, you can try both but if your doing one i would set up a 20 breeder with random logs and rocks from outside, 24 hour light 78 degree water, medium flow, 10 of them in there, you will need to buy MORE puffers because of how fast they breed, I'm not even joking, when the adults have an empty tank there will be 20 egg sacs on the glass the next day.

That's honestly hilarious and wonderful, I'm definitely gonna breed some snails! I had a 20g freshwater as a kid with ramshorns and I had to periodically cull them (it made our garden happy) because they reproduced so horribly prolifically!