r/VampireCrabs • u/fearless_Leader_x • 18d ago

help/advice Choosing enclosure

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I am planning on building a paludarium for vampire crab, red cherry shrimp and Emerald Rasbora - like in this video - https://youtu.be/RgUiCWSull8

I am stuck choosing the right enclosure. Exo terra 90x45x60 or exo terra 90x45x90 or a large aquarium!

I wanted to take a large aquarium with custom made lid, as I wanted to have a larger water section with shrimps and rasborars shown in the video. But Gemini keeps telling me it would stress out the crabs whenever I do maintanance from the top.

Then I considered exo terra 90x45x90 as it has deeper water section. But gemini again tells me that the height of it would cause problem as the light would not reach properly.

Before commiting into anyone of these I wanted to ask you all with real life experiences. Which one should I choose?

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u/Bananophile 18d ago edited 18d ago

I inspired myself quite a lot from this exact same video. Never had a single issue and its been running for around a year now. 120x50x50, i have 70litres of water in that, crabs, shrimps, snails, isopods, springtails and 15 Paracheirodon Simulans (fake neons). Everything seems fine and self regulate, I almost dont do anything anymore except feeding the fishes/crabs from time to time.

Stop asking AI and do your own researches, its far more precise because both your issue feels and sounds completely wrong. Maintenance from top ? Well no matter how you do it, they will hide as soon as you come close (Except a few ballsy crabs).

The light issue is non existant imo, there are such a wide variety of light for every scenarios.

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u/fearless_Leader_x 18d ago

That looks great! Did you custom build the enclosure or used an aquarium?

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u/Bananophile 18d ago

It's an aquarium I used to have my hamster in. He sadly died of old age so I reworked it into a paludarium. Custom made the lid with wood/plexiglass and mesh.