New Idea for Fiddler Crab land

[HeatherB]

What about this for my fiddler crabs> drop the water level down a bit, like 2 inches or so, and install this? Just the small one (mini or whatever it says?)

Would they get up on it, or would I have to rig it so they can climb from the bottom to the ramp?

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[Northernguy]

They might have trouble getting up on that.
Do you have fish in the tank?
If not you can use one of these for holding water and have a nics sand area everywhere else.
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[HeatherB]

I DO have fish in the tank. I have two fiddler crabs. One is in one 10 gallon with platys, swordtails and a betta (and snails) and the other is also in a 10 gallon with red-eye tetras, guppies, dwarf gaurami and snails.

My next idea was to make a stack of rocks (epoxy them together I would think I would have to do) and put them in the corner of the tank.... would crabby be able to scale this?

[wolf_eyes]

I would do the stack of rocks. Just try to imagine you're the size of a fiddler and arrange the rocks in a way that you could make it to the top. So you don't want to put them together in a 5 g?

[Aeonflame]

Sounds good, go for it. Post photos!

[Ashley]

Those turtle docks suck. I have tried so many of those, and the suction cups are always coming off. No matter what brand I have tried after a while the suctions are useless. Go for the rocks.

[Mith]

Those turtle docks suck. I have tried so many of those, and the suction cups are always coming off. No matter what brand I have tried after a while the suctions are useless. Go for the rocks.


I wasn't going to voice an opinion since I know nothing about those things.... but I WAS thinking along the same lines as you. WHEN haveyou EVER had one of those suction cups ever stick more than a short period of time.... LOL. I could see your turtle climbing aboard when all of the sudded there's a huge earth quake and the groud drops out from under him... LOL....

[HeatherB]

I was considering their own tank, but since I have 4 tanks in my bedroom now, mom has cut off the tanks.

What rocks should I use? Like larger river rocks? Or like, can I use rocks I find in my yard? I was also gonna make a ladder out of popsicle sticks! (LOL)

I guess I will have to move both of them together in the same 10 gal. tank....or make two structures, but sucks because I love the clean up job they do!

[Northernguy]

You can make a driftwood ladder easy enough!
A rock out of your yard will work fine.Make sure its clean first.

[lobsternoob]

The turtle docks do work well in principle, but yes, face the fact that suction cups well, they suck. I imagine a crab could crawl up on that ok, but your better with the rock stack idea. It would look cooler too. I would try and use some flatter rocks like slate to get a stair effect that would be VERY easy to climb. river rocks are cool too, but with slate done right, you may not even need to epoxy it. Or as NG mentioned you could make a driftwood ladder/stack, i think those can look even better, and you could even add some java moss or a plant put into the driftwood.