Crabitat Scaping
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2020 9:50 am
So I’ve been holding back on posting the progress of my crabitat. I wanted to complete it first but It’s killing me! 
Quick story on how this all got started. I was on vacation w my family and we came home with a crab. Sound familiar? Thought so.
I did quick research and realized the KK the store sold us wasn’t near good enough.
Luckily I had an empty 55 in my garage. I’ve been itching to get it set up again but wanted a planted freshwater with competition style Aquascaping. Something like this:
But it requires a small fortune in plants. So I’ve been holding off. Then my next thought was a reef tank. Well, that probably cost more than the freshwater planted.
So I quickly set up the crabitat with much better conditions. It’s location was temporary so I had to move it and here’s what I’ve done so far.
Here’s the quick setup before I moved it and after...
Now it’s still a WIP and would be much easier if I didn’t have crabs yet. Now it’s very difficult for me to complete my vision with the crabs in there. And I don’t want to keep pulling them out to do the work. But to move the tat I took them out, and they were in a small container for half a day.
Finally back home!
Now I’m wanting to add plants and first I collected some duck weed currently being quarantined. Check out all the hitchhikers.
Also collected moss hopefully I can get it to stay on the wood and I’ll put some around the freshwater pool as well as rocks to hide the filter. The moss and duckweed have been cleaned and sterilized. Just need to complete the quarantine process. I am confident the area I collected plants are free of pesticides.
Now I’m working on a waterfall and more natural looking pools. Inspired by terrariums, vivariums, plaudariums (whatever they are called) like these. I’m not sure I can compete but they are inspiring.
For now I’m going to hide the filters with lava rock and I’m having to silicone them outside the tank. It would be much easier if I could do it in the tank.
I’ll try growing some moss on part of the rocks as well.
If I knew I was going to be doing this I would bought a small pump instead of filters to create the falls because I want the falls to start high in the tank. I’d also like to make a more natural background but not sure if it would block heat from the UTH on the back glass.
If I ever finish I’ll post more pics here.
Thanks for looking!
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Quick story on how this all got started. I was on vacation w my family and we came home with a crab. Sound familiar? Thought so.
I did quick research and realized the KK the store sold us wasn’t near good enough.
Luckily I had an empty 55 in my garage. I’ve been itching to get it set up again but wanted a planted freshwater with competition style Aquascaping. Something like this:
But it requires a small fortune in plants. So I’ve been holding off. Then my next thought was a reef tank. Well, that probably cost more than the freshwater planted.
So I quickly set up the crabitat with much better conditions. It’s location was temporary so I had to move it and here’s what I’ve done so far.
Here’s the quick setup before I moved it and after...
Now it’s still a WIP and would be much easier if I didn’t have crabs yet. Now it’s very difficult for me to complete my vision with the crabs in there. And I don’t want to keep pulling them out to do the work. But to move the tat I took them out, and they were in a small container for half a day.
Finally back home!
Now I’m wanting to add plants and first I collected some duck weed currently being quarantined. Check out all the hitchhikers.
Also collected moss hopefully I can get it to stay on the wood and I’ll put some around the freshwater pool as well as rocks to hide the filter. The moss and duckweed have been cleaned and sterilized. Just need to complete the quarantine process. I am confident the area I collected plants are free of pesticides.
Now I’m working on a waterfall and more natural looking pools. Inspired by terrariums, vivariums, plaudariums (whatever they are called) like these. I’m not sure I can compete but they are inspiring.
For now I’m going to hide the filters with lava rock and I’m having to silicone them outside the tank. It would be much easier if I could do it in the tank.
I’ll try growing some moss on part of the rocks as well.
If I knew I was going to be doing this I would bought a small pump instead of filters to create the falls because I want the falls to start high in the tank. I’d also like to make a more natural background but not sure if it would block heat from the UTH on the back glass.
If I ever finish I’ll post more pics here.
Thanks for looking!
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