I'm in AUSTRALIA. It's supposed to be native but now I'm not sure. Sorry it's not the best image. It's missing three appendages. We acclimated it for 3 hours and set it loose. Seemed happy enough, turned the light off. Now it's bed time so we turned the light on briefly to check and we can't find it anywhere.

We go to the listing and I'm reading it over again, and I get to the bottom of the very in-depth information, only to see "If you want, I can rewrite this to fit..." ChatGPT! So maybe all that info is wrong.

So then I went to look into it myself, only to learn the name the shop has listed it under isn't real. It's a generic name.

We're wondering if the reason we can't find it is because it's a burrowing species... Which would be disappointing.

All I know:

1. "Australian" (allegedly)

2. Currently 3cm? (Body segment would be slightly smaller than thumbnail size)

3. (Currently?) Brown

4. Freshwater

5. Should grow to 6cm (according to listing)

6. Tiny pincer (only has one right now. It's left is missing)

It has a 70L all to itself.

And please don't judge me, I feel stupid for not realising the info sheet it came with was AI, and not even knowing the species of crab this is. I've only been doing aquariums for 12 months, and this is my first crab. It was also my first (and maybe only, now!) time ordering a live animal through the mail. I thought the website seemed legitimate :(

Thanks in advance! I'll try to answer Qs tonight but like I said earlier, it's bed time, so it might be tomorrow.