Ciao ragazzi! In this video I’m building a huge paludarium for my teenage vampire crabs. While I was building I received a call from a friend asking me if I wanted some mourning geckos. Of course I said yes!
Beautiful! Gorilla glue (the expanding normal version) can be useful for the attaching spagmun to expanding foam (saw it on cliffs reptiles and used it a few times) Doesn't expand as much as expanding foam tmk, tho iirc chemically similar. Can use spagmun while wet also (actually helps it harden uirc), which helps when getting it in compressed form and thus needing to expend it prior to use. Good luck with the mourning geckos! I am ultra careful whenever I open their enclosure.
Dude this looks EPIC. I would be so proud of myself if I made something like this. You for sure outdid yourself. The pieces of wood/stump you round and the rocks were amazing and really the perfect fit. The one rock that has a face, I thought it was a skull at first. Why does it have black spots? They look like eye sockets. Also the method you used for the silicone spray foam background looks really good way less time and hassle than the "regular" method of spray foam first, cure, carve, silicone, pat eco earth/moss, cure again. And again with the foam pads, then potting fabric, leca balls with no mesh in between, and then the substrate. There are no set hard rules just an overall guide of how you can do the setup and man, you nailed it. I really enjoyed this video and fell in love with this enclosure.
The rock is called flint stone and sometimes they are white on the outside and black on the inside. Thank you so much for the kind words I really appreciate it !! 😊
Thanks ! I failed to mention it in the video but I added a small power head with a sponge. Just to kept the water flowing. Yeah I crossed my mind. Maybe in the future I’ll add something like that. 😀
what a beautiful setup, a perfect addition would be epiphytic micro orchids mounted on the moss wall you’ve got, and who knows maybe one day you’ll include a drip wall.
Awesome build! Keep an eye on the geckos though, they'll be quick to polish off any of the smaller baby crabs they come across. Collecting out all the babies from tanks is a massive job! They just keep coming! 🤣
Fresh looking design, man! Those animals are lucky to have you. What brand of enclosures are those? I like the single swinging door on the smaller one.
Love from Norway, i would love to see a waterfall going down the whole scape with rocks, and a heater so you can have fish in there(the corse fosm, and the waterfall will work as a filter)
I added a small filter. I realized now that I didn’t mention that in the video. I don’t have heaters in any of my setups. My crabs are doing fine without.
Right now the crabs are too big for the geckos to eat theme and the same the other way around. How ever if they have babies it’s a different story so I have to keep an eye open and separate the babies from the adults the in future.
I get your frustration! Breeding vampire crabs can sometimes take time. Maybe there is something you can do to stimulate breeding? Maybe you have 7 males (unlikely). Do you have enough hiding places and vegetation? Are you familiar with @indoorecosystem on RU-vid? Maybe his videos can help you. Good luck !
Epic build man I’m working on three different builds at the same time for three different pets check it out once it’s done and oh I just subscribed to the channel & new to the channel keep up the great work I have 7k subscribers as well
Maybe i missed it but how did the female get pregnant again after the male died? I currently have a pregnant female but i don't think the eggs are fertile (because she hasn't seen a male in ages) Anyway, awesome video, cheers from SmallScaleTales🤍🌱
Ah, interesting question! Once a female vampire crab gets pregnant, she can lay eggs multiple times without needing to mate again. After mating once, she stores sperm, which she can use to fertilize multiple batches of eggs. I hope the eggs are fertile !! Thank you so much!
