If you are keeping them in a young and unmatured aquarium, feed them with shrimp and dried seaweed to help them from starving. They will eat detritus, dead organisms, leftovers, cyanobacteria, and algae making them a useful member of your tanks’ clean-up-crew. They are very easy to care for as they are omnivores, scavengers, and algae eaters. They are a vibrant orange color with red stripes around their legs which makes a nice contrast from the shell. They are very beautiful to look at and will remind you of the Halloween decorations you had as a kid. The Halloween Hermit Crab (Ciliopagurus strigatus) belongs to Diogenidae family. These can be found in blue, orange, yellow, and brown. Their sizes range to 3″ and you can find them for around $20. They also move very quickly which is why they are very hard to catch. They favor places where they can camouflage themselves easily so they will be in need of a lot of rocks in their aquarium. These crabs do fine when put in with larger fish but with smaller fish, they can show aggressiveness and harm them or eat them, although they don’t attack corals. They are usually semi-aggressive when small but when getting larger they can get very aggressive and intolerant. In a new, unmatured tank you can boost their diet with dried seaweed and meaty pieces like Mysis Shrimp, Clams, etc. If they are given the opportunity they will eat meat, such as other invertebrates and fish. They feed on detritus, algae, uneaten food, and everything else that comes in their path. These crabs are omnivores and scavengers. They are a great tank janitor, cleaning the tank from unwanted organic material. These crabs have a very striking appearance with a brown body and yellow, red rings on their legs. Sally Lightfoot crabs (Percnon gibbesi) belong to Grapsidae family. These crabs can reach as big as 2-3 inches in size and their price ranges from $10 to $20 each. They can be kept easily without anemones in the home aquarium, but having an anemone will show this symbiotic relationship well. They are named after anemones that they live within the wild. They generally do not show aggressiveness towards other tank dwellers but can raise their large claws to ward off any potential predators when needed. These crabs are very passive and can be kept in pairs. They have very large claws which they use to hold large meaty pieces that they find, but most of the time they use their fan-likes appendages to catch microscopic food from the water column. Belonging to Porcellanidae family these crabs have a red polka dot pattern on their shells with white edges which give them a look of porcelain, hence why they are sometimes known as a Porcelain Crab. Anemone crabs ( Neopetrolisthes ohshimai) are known as the cool crustaceans because they are very pretty with brilliant color.
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