Soldier crabs? sold at petco said to be reef safe?

[nightmarepl]

hey guys, went to my local petco to pick up some hermits and snails found they had some weird crab so i called over the " fish expert " kid sounded like he knows what hes talking about and claims they kept these for 2 weeks now with no issues ive tried looking up some research online not much about these cool guys except they leave the water to go into shallow water/ sand to eat anyone ever kept one ??

 

[Hawkeye]

nope never kept one....is that in your tank or a pic from petco?

 

[Trio91]

It looks almost like a fiddler crab. If it's in that family, then odds are it won't survive long in that tank. If it is, I'm going to assume that it needs a type of wet/dry simulation in your DT.

 

[nightmarepl]

yah not 100% sure what family that is from but that picture is from my tank i got like 2 inch sand bed seems to be just hanging around if je gets stressed by a fish or something he buries his body in my sand bed which looks awesome

 

[DangerDave]

Reef safe crabs are few and far between...

 

[nightmarepl]

Reef safe crabs are few and far between...

yah i figured hopefully ill feed him maybe little piece of shrimp and hell leave my crew alone cant go wrong with those colors tho

 

[meherbas]

I’ve kept um before but similar to fiddlers they are semi aquatic and I wouldn’t leave them without some type of land to escape the water, max ive kept mine is around a month. Pretty, never really bugged anything, but I would reccommend a terrarium or than a tank

 

[DangerDave]

lol if you guys want fiddlers, come to my house, I can put you guys on thousands of em!