cross species guarding?

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cross species guarding?

Post by lefty » Sat Jun 27, 2015 9:14 am

this is petunia(viola) and tink (pp), they were like this for 2 days!
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Re: cross species guarding?

Post by lefty » Sat Jun 27, 2015 9:16 am

this is day 3! does anyone elses do this ? not sure what is going on here
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and nanii fresh up from molt last night
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Re: cross species guarding?

Post by lefty » Sat Jun 27, 2015 9:21 am

i really try not to hands on , but that is a really long time to be up in the bridge poor thing. do they try to breed with other speices? should i just wait it out?
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Re: cross species guarding?

Post by KellyCrabbieLove » Sat Jun 27, 2015 10:58 am

They do not cross breed. Maybe they are confused. Lol

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Re: cross species guarding?

Post by lefty » Sat Jun 27, 2015 11:32 am

Then I'm goin in :lol:
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Re: cross species guarding?

Post by sugarselections » Sat Jun 27, 2015 1:31 pm

Well, I don't know if there would actually be any babies as a result of crossbreeding, but different species will definitely mate with one another. I've got a pack of purple pinchers after my female indo right now. For crab mating in general, I generally just leave them to it unless the female doesn't seem receptive to the advances.
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Re: cross species guarding?

Post by lefty » Sat Jun 27, 2015 2:47 pm

Wow sugars elections just watched your you tube tank and love what you did with your cork bark .tat is decorated so neat I would love to try that with mine . And what a fabulous idea for inside the water dishes I have been struggling with that trying to find a way that they trust looks like you found it.
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Re: cross species guarding?

Post by sugarselections » Mon Jun 29, 2015 3:24 pm

lefty wrote:Wow sugars elections just watched your you tube tank and love what you did with your cork bark .tat is decorated so neat I would love to try that with mine . And what a fabulous idea for inside the water dishes I have been struggling with that trying to find a way that they trust looks like you found it.
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