Cardisoma guanhum (Barbados Giant Land Crab) Build Thread!
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That is AWESOME! Those guys are ginormous! Hopefully they'll get less skittish once they realize you aren't going to eat them. Can't wait to see the cage get all set up. Keep trying more foods, a varied diet is best. You can even offer them crab!
Nice land crabs. I've seen these at various stages of life in Puerto Rico. They frequently occupy burrows at the edge of rivers and ponds -- and occasionally follow streams surprisingly far inland -- so it may be worthwhile to allow them access to freshwater and a tub of moist sand.
Here's one I encountered a few years back in Rio Grande:
Here's one I encountered a few years back in Rio Grande:
If you have females, they may well become gravid, but the larvae require saltwater to develop. In other words, these present a challenge similar to that posed to freshwater aquarists by Amano or bamboo shrimp (not so much insurmountable as judged to be too much trouble and left unattempted). There's at least one scientific paper on the larval development of Cardisoma guanhumi, and several hobbyists have successly bred red-claw crabs in captivity, so the possibility deserves to be kept in mind.
WOW those guys are really cool. I have been searching for a place that carries larger crabs but cant find anywhere that does. LFS doesnt seem to carry anything except maybe chili crabs. Do they go in the water at all?
