Did you leave the shell in there? Red crabs (and most of the tropical crabs we've kept) seem to eat the shell afterwards. We had one crab that we took all the shells out the tank, and kept them showing the size changes, but all other ones really havn't liked it, so we stopped doing that. Seemingly some nutrients in the shell or something!

I'd like to drop the water level in my current tank and get another crab, but daren't with my angel. Maybe time for a new tank

no we only had the one crab Chris , may get another one but all the ones we have seen are tiny in comparison

a few more pics

Forgot I took some piccies of mine the other day...








Clown and the Bristle Plec weren't coming out to play that day!

Very, very nice Chris - you run a very clean ship.

I have black beard algae in the tank So, no pics until I have purged and allowed to recover

my clowns came out to play

while we were away, the bala or black tipped sharks grew



in fact so did everything else








and the ladies were obviously impressed by this male mollys finnage



coz we found this little chap had been born ( top left )



followed by 13 more a week later