| Red river crab i caught at the run off at the dam|

[bettaboyshiva]

since you guys love him i will get some more pics for you all later...i cant right now because im at the college library lol...i've caught females with eggs and released them ...and i dont usuallly bring home crabs for pets ...since i can go anytime and catch one but this guy well i brought him home beacuse i just felt sorry for him in his small drying water hole..said wat the heck might as well bring him home ....oh and some of the river crabs actually look purple at one stage ...

[bettalover2033]

Purple?!

[bettaboyshiva]

yep when they are much smaller some do look purple ...next time i get one i will try to get a shot of it.

[Sena Hansler]

aww cool!!! I'm totally catching pics of our lake's live forms when I get my new camera!!!!!! xD I'll cry if I see a non-native fish in there. and being me I might catch and rehome the darn things. it's a danger to our nature to release non-native critters :/ turtles, too. goldfish. sometimes danios...

at least you get the cool stuff =D

[bettalover2033]

I have never heard of any other color crab,but then gain they have blue crayfish and other colors.

I wouldnt be as surprised.

[rckstr1253]

That's awesome! A pet store on long island here has small versions of these guys for a price of $2.69 and he has one larger than the one you have pictured, for $5. The larger one is ornage/black/and yellow and I think he has it labeled as a bumble bee fresh water crab.

[Sheldon31]

We're thinking of having a crab if we get another tank. Not entirely sure what they can lie with. Obviously not Bettas. Surely they'd claw at their pretty fins. He's super duper cute!

[bettalover2033]

My crayfish used to climb one of the driftwood decors I had in the tank at the tippy top, he would hold his claws open and wait to catch a fish at the top. I soon took that decor out and fed him his normal sinking pellets.

[Sena Hansler]

awww =3

[bettaboyshiva]

this guy was eating a fish a day...that is he was eating a 3 inch 2 spot tetra a day...so i decided it was best i released him back into the dam ...where he may mate and make more crabs :) ...so i released the big guy today..