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Thai Micro Spider Crabs or Limnopilos naiyanetri are small freshwater crustaceans that originate from Thailand where they live amongst hyacinth plants in only one river. Their carapace is about the size of a pencil eraser giving them their trade name “Micro.” They are filter feeders which means they collect small particles of food on the little hairs that line their legs by sticking them out into the water current. We feed our crabs powdered food like GlasGarten Bacter AE.
You will receive five (5) Thai Micro Crabs, also known as Limnopilos naiyanetri. The crabs you will receive will be adults, having a size of around a quarter of an inch (.25 inches).
The key to keeping these crabs is having the proper tank setup and ideal water parameters. Micro Crabs can live in both Neocaridina and Caridina parameters. Providing the matching substrate and remineralizer is important to keeping their environments stable. If choosing Neocaridina parameters they should be kept on an inert substrate with Shrimple GH/KH+. If choosing Caridina parameters they should be kept on a buffering substrate with Shrimple GH+.
Thai Micro Spider Crabs should be kept in a small aquarium where they can be easily viewed. They can cohabitate with snails and dwarf freshwater shrimp. Plants, such as Anubias or Java Fern, are preferred as the crabs like to hang out on the long roots. Mosses are also great additions to their tank. Sponge Filters or Matten Filters are the best type of filtration because the crabs graze on the porous sponge. These tiny crabs can be great additions to an existing shrimp tank or they can be the tiny stars of their own desktop or nano aquarium.
I was sent 6 crabs that were all alive and well. They disappeared almost immediately after I added them to my 16 gallon red cherry shrimp/snail tank. No surprise, since they’re shy and have a tendency to hide most of the time. It’s always a treat to catch one out in the open and observe them though! The pics are a little blurry (sorry), but that’s what you can expect in size and coloration.
I received 6 live, intact crabs but after I put them in a moderately planted, low light 5 gallon w/cholla log, I have only seen one on two separate occasions so hard to know if its the same one or the only one.
Incidentally, the second sighting was this morning and it only had 5 legs. Unfortunately this species of crab is not capable of regenerating new limbs. No idea what happened since his only tankmates are (hopefully) five more crabs and about a dozen RCS.
All healthy even got extra.packaged with great care.would Def recommend and order again
I got these tiny little crabs and threw them in my tank. Never saw them for 8 months. Then boom! A huge crawls out from behind a log one day
There awesome little crabs couldn't believe they were so tiny hard to spot them if you get them probably want to put them in small tank by themselves.
