Horseshoe Crab

seahorse11

Member
HI, I havent seen anything in this forum about horseshoe crabs. I will be setting up a 125 gallon and eventually want a H crab. Does anybody have one, how are they with other tank mates, are they difficult to keep?
 

rgmason

Member
They are to me a little destructive when they get bigger they tend to stir up the sand alot and topple rocks so i have seen in customer tanks.
 

nicodakat

Member
I had two horseshoe crabs about 2 inches long including the tail in my tank. I figured because I had a deep sand bed it would be okay. One of them did okay the other was very destuctive!!! It swam into everything and bulldozed over some of my corals. I had to remove him. The one that did okay, buried himself and only came out at night. That was when I could see that he too was a bit destructive. So IMO I would not reccoment them at all. I hope this helps.
 
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