Red burrowing Crab

[krollins]

Does anyone know about these?

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[tzabor10]

Not at all. Are you interested in developing new retailers?

 

[krollins]

Are you interested in developing new retailers?

What do you mean?

 

[tzabor10]

What do you mean?

You posted two ads from a retailer I have never heard of. Are you trying to help them out?

 

[krollins]

You posted two ads from a retailer I have never heard of. Are you trying to help them out?

Nope, I just saw them and a couple of things caught my eyes.

 

[krollins]

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[Stomatopods17]

They're uca species, same as fiddler crabs.

They need land to burrow and breath. There honestly isn't a lot known about them but the assumption is if you want them to thrive they need the same requirements as the brackish fiddlers. I don't know what water parameters they actually need but assumption would be regular saltwater instead of brackish.

I personally never contacted anyone to ask where they collect these (would make things a whole lot easier), but I went through 200 species of fiddler crabs and couldn't find a match on the specific name. Quality marine list them as Paraleptuca crassipes (actually they list it as uca crassipes but that ain't a thing lol) but I'm not fully convinced (although their large distribution would check out), the blue ones I occasionally see look like Tubuca elegans to me, which is found on australian coast.