Climbing Glass Ceiling

[jclee]

Yep. That is a crab climbing glass, with nothing to hold onto for footing but a plastic hinge divider. I love watching these guys move around.

[LadyJinglyJones]

* Spider crab, spider crab, radioactive spider crab *

[Flandry]

We've got a crab that did exactly the same thing in our previous tank. I was too fascinated watching to get my camera, so good thinking on your part! It was yet more incentive for us to get a taller tank!

[jclee]

We've got a crab that did exactly the same thing in our previous tank. I was too fascinated watching to get my camera, so good thinking on your part! It was yet more incentive for us to get a taller tank!

Hahaha. I try to make every space climbable, which is part of the surprise when they're able to use the one space I thought they would not.

[Kermie16]

Love it when they do that!!


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[GotButterflies]

Great pics!


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[Hermiesguardian]

Yep. That is a crab climbing glass, with nothing to hold onto for footing but a plastic hinge divider. I love watching these guys move around.

So I heard some scraping sound and hoped it was one of them in the hamster wheel finally. I looked and looked. Then freaked out when I saw Derek crawling upside down on the mesh lid. This is the best picture I could get.

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[jclee]

They are quite the climbers!

[arosenbaum]

So, my crab has been doing this (I thought it would be the only one before I found this thread), but I wake up in the middle of the night to frantic "tapping" of my crabs legs/claws on the glass lid of my tank. Somehow (I have no idea how) he gets up there, and then can't get down, so I have to gently take the lid off and set him back on the substrate (I'm still new to crabs and not comfortable with handling them for fear I would get pinched and drop them....so I just try to gently "dump" him off into the sand). I don't know how he gets up there nor do I really care, but he can't get down so I keep getting woken up in the middle of the night to have to get him down which is a little annoying....any tips??

[Scarletfire]

I leave my crabs be when they climb the ceiling. Usually they have a destination in mind, or just likes the view.

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[Hermiesguardian]

So, my crab has been doing this (I thought it would be the only one before I found this thread), but I wake up in the middle of the night to frantic "tapping" of my crabs legs/claws on the glass lid of my tank. Somehow (I have no idea how) he gets up there, and then can't get down, so I have to gently take the lid off and set him back on the substrate (I'm still new to crabs and not comfortable with handling them for fear I would get pinched and drop them....so I just try to gently "dump" him off into the sand). I don't know how he gets up there nor do I really care, but he can't get down so I keep getting woken up in the middle of the night to have to get him down which is a little annoying....any tips??

They can definately get down. They are also called tree climbers. Even if they fall it's no big deal. They love to climb.

[Moe2076]

I have 2 or 3 that like to climb. One day very shortly after I put them in the 20 G I had one climb about halfway along the top of the tank and then back again.