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18-Sep-07, 01:25 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Brisbane, Toowong Age/Gender: 20  | | |
Have been cruising the green scorpion site ( www.thegreenscorpion.com.au), and even bought some stuff (centipede, scorpion, forceps at the moment.)
While cruising the site I saw this: http://thegreenscorpion.com.au/shopc...?itemnid=44372 ... AWESOME! Anybody know anything? Can you tell me about them, post pics etc?
When I get a little more money together I want to buy one and also a phlogius sp. T!
EDIT: thread title is meant to be Desert Crab.. |
18-Sep-07, 02:22 PM
|  | Invert nut Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: QLD Gender: | | | | that looks exactly like the "freshwater crabs" i see for sale regulary, do need land and water, freshwater will do but thrive in brackish and breed in it altho i dont know of any cases of captive breeding.
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18-Sep-07, 02:46 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Alice Springs Gender: | | | | How big do they get?
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18-Sep-07, 02:48 PM
| | Invert nut Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: QLD Gender: | | | | the ones i'm thinking bout are only bout 10cm.
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18-Sep-07, 02:55 PM
|  | Sponsor | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: Port Macquarie Age/Gender: 34 | | | | these guys are from the drier side of MT garnet QLD and they live in the dry creek beds waiting for rain .
it has been told to me they will survive with one or 2 showers or rain a year which they will breed quickly.
I currently feed them grated carrot and fish food flakes .
these guys don't live near any brackish water at all
and average in size at the 50 mm mark
these are a very active crab needing dry land as well as fresh water |
18-Sep-07, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by hornet  that looks exactly like the "freshwater crabs" i see for sale regulary, do need land and water, freshwater will do but thrive in brackish and breed in it altho i dont know of any cases of captive breeding. |
so hornet you reckon theyd do well in bore water that is considered to salty to drink but good enoguh to use for plants, and washing and the likes?
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18-Sep-07, 02:58 PM
| | Invert nut Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: QLD Gender: | | | | quite possibly, bore wateralso containers many minerals so i would check whats in it before using it with animals
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18-Sep-07, 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by bylo these guys are from the drier side of MT garnet QLD and they live in the dry creek beds waiting for rain .
it has been told to me they will survive with one or 2 showers or rain a year which they will breed quickly.
I currently feed them grated carrot and fish food flakes .
these guys don't live near any brackish water at all
and average in size at the 50 mm mark
these are a very active crab needing dry land as well as fresh water |
how many could you technically keep together in say a 2 foot tank?
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18-Sep-07, 03:01 PM
| | Invert nut Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: QLD Gender: | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bylo these guys are from the drier side of MT garnet QLD and they live in the dry creek beds waiting for rain .
it has been told to me they will survive with one or 2 showers or rain a year which they will breed quickly.
I currently feed them grated carrot and fish food flakes .
these guys don't live near any brackish water at all
and average in size at the 50 mm mark
these are a very active crab needing dry land as well as fresh water | you sure because i know of no crab that is totally freshwater, they at least need brackish to breed in. I do know a few crab nuts, will search around.
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18-Sep-07, 03:07 PM
| | Sponsor | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: Port Macquarie Age/Gender: 34 | | | | I collected these myself with a licensed collector and there was no salt water 500 km inland of cairns .
we found them while fossicking for gems |
18-Sep-07, 03:12 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | | Some species are completely freshwater. I havnt ever bred any, but the last lot i caught got nailed by my banded grunter(it was smaller than them at the time). They are also clearly a differant species to these ones bylo has. I dont have any pics but they came from near Eulo so they arnt going to trvel over 1000k's to breed in brakish water. |
18-Sep-07, 03:14 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bylo I collected these myself with a licensed collector and there was no salt water 500 km inland of cairns .
we found them while fossicking for gems | Are they protected or something? or do you just need a permit if its for commercial reasons? |
18-Sep-07, 03:16 PM
| | Sponsor | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: Port Macquarie Age/Gender: 34 | | | | just need to be on a permit for commercial reasons , so the parks and wildlife can keep tabs on numbers going to the pet trade |
18-Sep-07, 03:39 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Sydney NSW Gender: | | | I'm sure some of the members on here have crabs  |
18-Sep-07, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Colin I'm sure some of the members on here have crabs |
hahaha
did this come from personnal experience? 
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