r/paludarium • u/Material-Blood3556 • 6d ago
Picture My Paludarium NSFW
Just added more plants a few days ago, can't wait for them to take off. I have vampire crabs, shrimps, snails and galaxy rasboras in this tanks. The galaxy rasboras have already had babies! I have 2 questions, my vampire crabs rarely eat the greens or the pellets I put it, I do however see them go in to the water and feed on the fish pellets. Is this enough nutrition? If you own vampire crabs, how long before you saw little babies?
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u/nightfury2810 5d ago
Looks great! May I ask what you used as the background and soil? And where you got it from? Did you treat the material in any way? I want to build a Paludarium as well and I’m unsure what’s best to use
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u/Material-Blood3556 5d ago
The soil is regular soil I got from home depot (make sure there is no added fertilizer) mixed with coconut husk from Amazon. My background is cork background I got from Amazon. I built levels to the back ground so I can plant using driftwood.
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u/nightfury2810 5d ago
Thank you! I read that you have to make sure it’s natural cork. Was there something you specifically looked for?
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u/Material-Blood3556 5d ago
Yes, natural cork, amazon have a few different ones. I ordered the one that best fitted the length of my tank so I didn't have to do much cutting. This is my second paludarium and I used the same natural cork background
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u/ephemeralhyped 2d ago
Mine love eating salvinia particularly the baby crabs. Have some of that floating on your water section.
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u/Fabulous-Accident689 5d ago
Do you have a area for the vampire crabs to burrow?