KayedeeLove<3 wrote:Can u add pics?
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Sure, I just didn't think anyone would be interested. I'm still working out the kinks as far as arrangement goes. My big girl likes to follow my little crabs everywhere, and she demolishes the tank in the process. Fair warning, the pics are kinda crummy. The glass is really old and thick, and it makes getting pictures from the outside difficult.
Its kinda hard to see past the greenery, but the big plant is hanging from a big shower caddy moss pit with a curtain of fake ferns to provide a dark corner at all times of the day.
This is a view of the short side of the tank, behind the fern curtain. There's a big conch shell propped up on the right, and a deer skull on the left to hide under.
The middle of the tank. Food dishes are in front, protein dish and calcium dish are the big white lions paw clam shells, and the one to the right is the main food dish, an abalone shell. The black bowl is plastic, and serves as the in-the-open ground moss pit. It has little shells in it because I acquired a baby hermit about the size of a nickel. The three pillar looking things are river rocks strung on fishing line. They like to climb them. In the back is a fake stump for hiding in, which they never use. On top of that is a big
real oak branch about as long as my arm. Its hidden behind a vine curtain, one of their favorite sitting spots. Its bent at almost a 90 degree angle, and arches over the stump perfectly.
And a random one of the abalone dish, because its pretty and I'm kinda proud of it. (That's Havel, my new adoptee.) You can see the hidden ground moss pit behind him.
And the other end. The shell shop is a giant hanging basket with burlap lining the bottom, to prevent little crabby legs from falling through. It hangs over the water dishes and has two bamboo ramps. (But mostly they climb the vines. My hermits like to do it the hard way.) The net is polyester, my hemp ones kept rotting into pieces.
A better shot of the shell shop from above. A fox skull sits on the ramps. You can see my big girl Seren in the fake plant on the floor. I scatter millet, chia, or flax in there for them to mow down, which she's doing at the moment.
A better shot of the water pools. Seren is still munching millet sprouts on the left.
Its not as impressive as a lot of the habitats I see on here, but its mine.
It took me a year to put together, and ended up costing me under $100, but it was definitely worth the wait. I slowly change their environment to keep them entertained, so objects and toys come and go. The only thing I don't like so far is the sand. It started out at nine inches and has settled to seven and a half. I hope to add in the sub from my 30 gallon when the last of my molters come up, so that should fix the problem.
The habitat isn't great for pictures. A lot of the stuff is under plant cover to give lots of hiding places. I designed it with the crabs in mind, but that kinda left something to be desired when it comes to watching them. There's actually five shower caddy moss pits and two ground moss pits in there, but you can't see most of them because they're hidden. My 30 gallon was really open and kinda bare. When I was new I worried about crowding them or taking up their digging space. After watching them for six months and them choosing to dig in the most awkward spots, I decided that they preferred the more crowded spaces.
Gruesome. I feed dried crickets, but I guess they like fresh meat. Yuck!
How exciting! What did you move them from and what did you move them into? I'm hoping to have my new tank ready for a move by next week.
Yes, they eat the bark off the branch. Between that and the other natural bits in the tank, they don't visit the food bowl much except for fruit or seeds. 