Vampire Crab, The Best Pet Crustacean? 

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They reproduce like crazy... and are capable to survive on Vegetation only! I had a hidden survivor for months in my vivarium. Now its overtaken 😂

as someone who wanted to be a marine biologist in my youth, I am so sad I didn't know about these crabs until today. Possibly the cutest crabs around.

I think you forgot a fact about crabs. They are attracted to raves. As soon as you get a glowstick out and start the music, there will be millions of them all of a sudden.

The Red-deviled Vampire Crabs are my favourite animals, total. The fact that one is named "Geosarma Larsi" after a photograher (Lars Fernahlt) that first photographed them is awesome to me.

As an older hobbyist, I’m familiar with Red Claw and Fiddler crabs, but while they were hardy and terribly attractive, particularly fiddler crabs, extremely difficult to breed in captivity, given that they’re terrestrial adults with larvae who live in brackish river deltas with cyclic salinity shifts.

I love how they have a permanent, mildly-aggressive look in their eyes that kinda says, “What’re you looking at? I am smol but mighty- I will destroy you!” Just absolutely precious. 🥰😂

You should do pumpkin patch tarantula next! 🎃

The grand opening of Clint's Reptile Room is two weeks from today! Tickets are still available: clintsreptiles.com/grand-opening/ We hope to see you real soon!

"Filial Cannibal Crab" is the name of my Nu-Metal band.

Clint, if you're interested in doing an episode on an actual vampire, Asian buffalo leeches have a base of keepers. The feeding is apparently either very messy (edible pig blood from butcher/store) or, well, very personal.

I love that Clint compliments the animals when they jump, he genuinely seems fascinated with them

Clint always finds a way to make me love things I didn't care about before. Never been a huge crab fan, except for eating. But these crabs are stinkin rad. The colors alone made me fall in love.

My word, such beautiful animals! Immense appreciation to Clint and the team for bringing such a charmer to our attention!

Butterflies are my favorite Crustaceans to Keep personally.

Yet another arthropod I've been wanting to see reviewed. Beautiful and cute yet fiesty little gremlins. They have the goofy expression of a cicada, which is my second favorite animal of all time. I was definitely making the same "Awwwwww" and kissing noises watching this video the same way I do seeing my favorite animals sooooooo yeah.

Two tarantula suggestions for spooky month - Hapolopus sp Columbia "Pumpkin Patch" (dwarf new world tarantula) and Ephebopus uatuman (Emerald Skeleton tarantula, a fossorial/burrowing new world tarantula that makes really cool web tunnels!) Or maybe diving beetles or other aquatic insects - I know a couple places have started selling them

THANK YOU!! Been waiting for you to do a video on these awesome little guys for years, theyre pratically the perfect pet for bioactive setups; come in a wide range of colors, play nice with anything they cant fit in their mouths(which is alot, being so tiny!), act as their own clean-up crew and gardeners, and breed like crazy! Even seen videos of these guys being kept with small active lizards and frogs; all of which were still breeding!

You should totally do an episode on halloween crabs! There like the big brother of vampire crabs

You gotta do Halloween crabs! Happy spoopy season!

That’s cool and all but what we really need is for Clint to make an episode about carsinization

Clint has got to be the most likeable guy in this awesome reptile keepers world. He leaves me smiling every time. Lol

The purple one looks beautiful, it hurts watching from Australia knowing I'll probably never own one of these little guys. Awesome video as always Clint

So it's October. Can you guess what video comes out next week?? 🎃

The way he smiled when he said “they might eat their offspring”…

One time, as my dad was taking a jumping spider outside, he let the intrusive thoughts win, and rapidly jostled his cupped hands, and the jumping spider bit him. I was like "Why TF would you do that?" I'm convinced he is the only person to ever get bitten by a jumping spider.

Also, would it be possible to provide an “example enclosure” as a reference for the “Best pets?” series? We can get a better idea of what to do, and for the unreasonable one it would be hilarious.

“Water should be basic.” On my way to find enough pumpkin spice flavored water that’ll last the year

I have two hermits and absolutely love them!! They are fun to watch. They can live up to 40 years!! I would love to get these vampire crabs and Halloween Moon Crabs!!

I love how you just casually reported temperature parameters in KELVINS lol

I'm surprised at how much joy the Arwen reference gave me but I'm taking it! :D Vampire crabs are the Jumping spiders of the Crustaceans. Too pretty, too cute, to lose them so quickly.

DON'T keep them in a tank with water like we see here this is only for a short time display, they will end up drowning :( they are land crabs and live next to water, they need a setup much like you set up for dart frogs, but with a body of water deep enough for them to get fully submerged when molting. they also need high humidity, and only seek water for molding or if the humidity is not high enough. the water also is best with higher PH and GH levels. they are good climbers and like to dig, in the wild they dig tunnels down to 1-2 meters. the males are territorial and will chase away other males and females who don't want to mate, ofc if you have many together they can not form territories but i don't recommend keeping them like that. they are also very visual, so only keep one species of them, if you have multiple species together they can start wars one species vs the other. as for food they like to hunt, so small live pray like silverfish and curly winged flies are great for the adults, and springtails are also nice both as a cleaner and for food for the babies. reproduction. the female caries the babies some time after the eggs hatch, where they jump of when they are big enough. the adults eat the babies if they can catch them, but a lot of hiding places near the water feature where the adults can not get in and feeding live pray will lessen how many are eaten, though you can take the female out to another tank to drop the babies of, though they hide when they have eggs and carry the babies. size of tank. the bigger the better, and a longer one with more ground space is to be preferred, in this way you can make the water feature go from one end to the other end so that the crabs don't need to cross other crabs territory when molting. i have been breeding them for about 10 years now, and i can say there are breeders who breed so that we don't take from the wild. i'm only a hobby breeder not for money, but have had colonies live up to about 7 years without taking babies out, though they need a large tank for this and once a few years you need to add new blood to your colony :)

Clint: “Handle them with care” Vampire Crab: WEEEEEEE

Thank you, Clint! Those are actually some really cool-looking little crabs!

I think they look absolutely amazing critter wise! The name just makes them cooler to me!

I'm in love! Especially the purple one.

I owned hermit crabs as a kid…the one pet my dad didn’t complain about (I had a lot of pets that were not free of smell). I was bitten by one crab I bought in South Padre. It is definitely painful.😄 These videos are fun. I don’t necessarily want a crab, but these are beautiful.

Hello Clint, I was wondering if you could do a video about velvet worms. They're invertebrates in their own order! I've been fascinated by them for a while and I would love a video on them.

You've got to do an episode called "Lobster, The Best Crustacean?". I think it would be worth collaborating with Brady Brandwood since he has kept a lobster for nearly 2 years.

Aww, Rene Auberjonois would have been impressed with your rendition of Louis the Chef's song to Sebastian. I too used to sing Le Poisson lol.

This channel is so awesome. Love the content. The colors of those little crabs is amazing!

Yayyyyy!!!! I’ve been waiting for this! Thank you this was so helpful!

I just got my first striped bark scorpion. You should do a video about them.

@13:00 - Yeah, tortoises are definitely generational pets. There's a gopher tortoise (named Gus) that's been living at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History since 1942 and is 101 years old. :) Used to love feeding him lettuce there when I was a kid in the 70s & 80s. :P

Really happy to see a vampire crab video. I've actually been planning on getting some myself and more info is always nice.

Quite surprised at how handleable they turned out to be. They are not easy to find here though, and at around $40 a crab, not exactly cheap either, but my paludarium is under planning as it's currently empty and I guess some vampires will call it hope sometime soon-ish :) Thanks for this very informative vid! :D

I was just thinking about making a terrarium for vampire crabs, glad you made this video just in time!

OMG!!!! I love these guys so much!!!! Thx so much for featuring them!!

holy cow this is really enjoyable content. Love your wit and obvious passion.

1:27 it was on this day that a learned, crabs have larvae.

That purple crab with cobalt blue is *GORGEOUS.* 🦀

Been waiting for this video for so long

Good advice on the lid in case they turn into bats or smoke. Cute little bats, though.

You should do one of these videos on hermit crabs! I’d be super excited to watch

so glad you got to these. my son has wanted them for years. i always trust your channel for good indormation

I’m a new viewer and I’ve been binging your videos. I’ve enjoyed them immensely, but it wasn’t until you sang my absolute favorite Disney movie song that I fell in love! Amazing!

I've actually been thinking about keeping some of these... This video makes me think it's a good idea. I never suspected a gorgeous arthropod would get such a high score! I kind of want to renovate my old 55 gallon into a crab paradise paladarium, with a rainbow of these little guys!

0:29 😂 I like how he knows that there’s always gonna be that one guy who is dumb enough to believe him

YOU FINALLY MADE A VIDEO ON THEM OMG!! They're the coolest fellas ever i love them

weve got loads of babies in a heavily planted paladarium, i had no idea they only live 2 years though!!

I appreciate your videos very much. You do an excellent job, have great enthusiasm, and promote us being good stewards. Well done!

Oh my gosh, I LOVE their colouring, especially that dark purple/black one 😍

Wow, those crabs look so cool. This is the perfect Halloween themed video for this channel.

About time there is a video about these

I love how it is eating stuff off of your hands! Adorable!

What adorable little guys❤

Loved the Rene Auberjonois impressions at the end lol (he was the chef in the Little Mermaid)

Hi Clint thanks for the video on vampire crabs!👍

Lol shoutout to your dad. Got pinched by my friends hermit crab, maybe 9 or 10 and it was big and it hurt but didnt even break the skin. It just let me know. But that purple one you have is so pretty.

I just circled back to this video (catching up on phylogeny phebruary) and I am so excited to see the beginning of the Ridge Wallet! ❤ Got my dad one, and I love mine.

Thanks for introducing me to such a fascinating little creature!

I've never seen these before, but I'm in love. I hope these become more commonplace in the future in the UK.

This man is a National Treasure!

Vampire crabs are so cool, I have 4, I love all crustaceans I have a lot them, including 2 coconut crabs!

I really like this guy he is like the perfect nerd which is a good thing. I could hang out with this guy all day and never get tired of listening to his information on animals.

I'm currently living just an hour away from Lehi, so I might have to come by one of these days.

I love them unconditionally

so cool. my local fish store just got loads of vampire crabs and i was considering buying a few, this video is perfect, Thank you.

Crab-keeper here: like Clint says, don't mix species! They *will* KO each other without hesitation. (And vampire crab breeders are trying to prevent hybridization, which could make long-term captive conservation more difficult and create hybrids with washed out colors).

This video came out at the perfect time for me--I'm actually planning on getting a few vampire crabs very soon! I've wanted to keep them for quite a while now (I keep aquariums and especially enjoy shrimp, so I'm branching out to other inverts), but it took a few tries to get my 10g paludarium perfect. Now I'm just waiting for the plants to fill out a bit more so there's ample hiding spots. :) Thanks for the information as always!

I love crabs! Im so pumped for this video!

As someone who had been pinched by my own pet hermit crabs, i can attest that one should not underestimate a crab's pinch, now matter how small😅

it's my first time ever finding out this species. the purple one's too adorable. my favourite colour. it's delightful how the yellow eyes add as a complementary touch. 💜now, i have the urge to listen to crab rave.

I wanted some of these so I set up a 10 gallon for 2 vampire crabs a couple years ago, and! Nobody had them, not even online for order (for less than $300 each) So I got red clawed crabs, got some salt and made the water brackish and they've been alive for almost 2 and a half years, we lost one so far but I got three, and the one just died last month One day I will set up a giant vampire grab vivarium

Side note: the greatest tragedy of the remake of Little Mermaid… Was the removal of the chef’s song!😂💔

Yesss! Been waiting for this.

YESSSSSSS just last week I was thinking how intensely I wanted you to do Vampire Crabs!!!!! Creepy how you read my mind.

The line you fudged at the end is "Toodle-oo Mon poisson, au revoir!" 😊

Any chance getting a video on basic plant options and care for various enclosure setups?

Great video!

i have a paludarium of these guys, they breed like crazy, I saw at least 6 babies today (they also have live plants in there and mainly burrow on the land slide)

Never heard of or seen these & they are gorgeous

Thanks for covering these funky little guys. I keep seeing them at expos and am too scared to buy them because I didn't know anything about them.

Such cool creatures!!

i never in my life before considered having a pet crab. but these guys are adorable.

I have an unused ten-gallon I’ve been considering converting into a vampire crab enclosure. This was a really helpful video for a first-timer like me!

I tried looking these crabs up after a saw I video once. Didn’t pull up much which made me sad. Happy to see a video on them.

As this popped up on my phone and I started to read the title my brain jumped to "Vampire crabs, the best pet vampire?"

THANK YOU CLINT!

This seems like a mixture between reptile care and fish care. I've got quite a few years of experience with both, and have worked with crustaceans before, so this may be something I'd look into keeping sometime in the future.