Common post, thought I'd try....Overstocked?

Your "mini-crabs" are probably truly both brackish and amphibious (thereby requiring, at the least, a haul-out platform). Can you post an image?
 
how are your adf's? I mean are they social or do they hide. You might want to put 1 or 2 more. This based on the fact that I didn't figure if you are over stocked, too much thinking and unknowns based on some of your fishies. Also, can they get to the surface easily? Or do they have to hike it from the bottom. I have the coolest plants...banana plants (have big 1-2inch diameter leaves), easiest thing to care for EVER! and they have been sitting on them since I just moved out of a 5g into a 30g...as well as sitting on decorations. I feel like kermit should be sitting on my tank playing rainbow connection with my lilly-pad looking leaves and frogs.

my 2cents
lisa
 
I'd say you're not overstocked. Then again, I'm not so good with figuring stocking with large tanks...
 
I have just the one mini-crab. He's air-breathing as I think most crabs are. He's about the diameter of a quarter. I have an airstone in the tank which he frequents for air as well as many tall plants that go above the water line that he uses to get to the surface sometimes. Also, he will scale the heaters and perch on top of the powerheads that are just under the surface. So when he's on them, he's actually just above the water. I've had him for a month or so. He keeps to himself and doesn't bother the fish at all....except for occasionally stealing a food pellet from the cories.

As far as the 2 ADFs, sadly, I'm down to one now. Just got them yesterday too. Was doing my weekly Saturday tank maintenance and found him stuck to one of the power head intakes. I have a suction cup/bracket from one of my heaters proping the intake parrallel to the tank wall (marineland phs only have one suction cup at the top and they lean into the tank wall). Not necessary, but aethsetically better. Anyway, he got his leg caught in the bracket or something. I could hardly get him out. That sucks. I'm so sad and feel horrible. They both split and hid yesterday when I put them in. I only saw the one here and there last night and today. It's pretty common in my tank to "loose" something for a day or two. There are lots of hiding places, plants, rocks, etc. As I stated above, there are a few plants that go above the waterline or just below it.
 
Sounds about right- are the platies a mating pair? That is awesome if they provide "in-house" food for the angels and pictus. Usually they like more in their company, maybe add a female? How big is your sailfin? They are sooo gorgeous when large...
 
Nuriel, how do I tell if my Platies are a mating pair? They are together all the time. One is absolutely obese and makes me think half the time that it is pregnant, but I have never seen fry. Could be I'm not there at the right time to see. How often can Platies give birth? The Sailfin is 12 inches long. Yeah, he is really pretty...that is when he's not dragging a 2 foot long poo behind him (lol). I've had him for almost 4 years. Changed from Cichlids to community and from a smaller tank to a larger one, and he's been here through it all. I've pretty much laid my tank out to suit him....lots of "basking" areas on the gravel, bubble bar (I don't care for it, but he swims in it almost everyday), and a relatively open layout so that he can get in and around most everything.
 
Is there a dark spot (gravid spot) just behind her stomach? If so then she's pregnant -- that spot is the baby eyes.
 
Yes! I've seen that before. So I have a mating pair. How often will she have fry?
 
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