saltwater viv construction log

i just dug up this thread while searching for posts about hermit crabs, looking for guidance, information, and inspiration from the experienced. little did i know what i'd find!!! you, sir, are bloody &$@^ing brilliant!!!!

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how's the tank going these days? got any updated pics for us? :naughty:
 
i just dug up this thread while searching for posts about hermit crabs, looking for guidance, information, and inspiration from the experienced. little did i know what i'd find!!! you, sir, are bloody &$@^ing brilliant!!!!

:bowing::bowing::bowing::bowing: :y220e::y220e::y220e::y220e:

how's the tank going these days? got any updated pics for us? :naughty:

Aww thanks :)
Its been a long time since I updated...
I'm down to one purple crab now. There were two females and a male, but the male grew faster, and he was very aggressive. It killed a lot of crabs including one of the females, and he ripped half of the legs off the surviving one.
This is the last picture I took of him-
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He shed his shell after the pic was taken, which made him too big to avoid capture. So I released him back to the wild.

The surviving crab grew her missing claw and legs back, and she's looking very beautiful-
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She loves too eat, kill, and destroy things, but the three pistol shrimp, the two snails, the starfish and the anemones(one has turned into 5) are still alive.
The glass shrimp wasn't so lucky:crazy:
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I was really attached to that little guy.
This is the last picture of the half crab before it was eaten-
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It was to slow to get away the poor thing :(
 
that is sad ab out the glass shrimp... i've always loved the little guys XD
that female IS beautiful. you've done a great job. :D
 
So........I know this is bad thread-necro, but is this tank still up and running?

yep still running. I've made plans for making a new tank but haven't found the time to make it. The crab is growing much slower than I thought it would, so there isn't much of a rush.
 
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