HS crabs from SWF??

samish

New Member
Hi, i always see people saying how all horseshoe crabs are going to get 2+ feet long. Well appearently alot of online stores sell indian HS's, and the actual crab gets as big as ur fist, and the shell a few inches bigger, according to many science sites i have found, and all my books say the asian crabs arent as big as the atlantic one. Is this true? Is there really that big a diff between Limilus and carniospinus (sp on both)???
 

tcreef

Member
I don't know what species of horseshoe they are, but I have personally seen several caught in shrimp nets that were 1 ft across the shell. These were caught in Galveston Bay. Giant prehistoric marine bugs!!!!!!!!!!!
 
If you order a HS crab from here they coem about 2 inches long and thats including the tail. Im guessing it would take years for it to get 12inches. By then it would either be in your tank dead or you would have given up saltwater fish by then lol. Buy one, i did there lots of fun.
 
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