Panther Crab (Parathelphusa pantherina)
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Like all predatory crabs and crayfish, they can try to eat fish and other inverts like snails and shrimp. Like all Sulawesi animals, it requires water with a much higher pH and temperature than many other freshwater animals. It is fairly hardy and undemanding as long as these conditions are met. Like nearly all crabs, it is an opportunistic, omnivorous scavenger that requires a varied diet of mostly meaty foods such as sinking pellets and frozen foods such as bloodworms. The Panther Crab is a bit territorial and must be provided with multiple hiding places, especially when kept with others of its kind. It can be safely kept with some active fast moving fish species, but there is no guarantee that it will not attempt to prey on sluggish or sleeping fish. As far as we know, it has not yet been bred in captivity on a widespread basis.
Though it is considered fully aquatic, the Panther Crab is not afraid to leave the water. It is quite an escape artist and it must be kept in an aquarium with a fail-safe cover. While it does not require a land portion in its habitat, it will certainly use such a feature.
- Beautiful spotted pattern
- More peaceful alternative to crayfish
- Lively personality
- One of the few fully aquatic crabs available
- Temperature: 76° - 82° F (24° - 28° C)
- pH: 7.5 - 8.5
- KH: 5 - 8 dKH
- Minimum tank size: 20 gallons
- Diet: Omnivorous. These crabs are not picky and will eat all sorts of food, including invertebrate pellets and algae wafers. They also like bloodworms and will munch on dead plant material. Calcium supplements (such as cuttlebone) are a good idea too, as the will help maintain the health of their shells
- Social behavior: Less aggressive than crayfish, but they are opportunistic hunters and may go after nearby shrimp or snails
- Origin: Lake Matano in Sulawesi, Indonesia
- Average adult size: 4 - 5 inches (10.2 - 12.7 cm) in diameter
- Average purchase size: 1 - 3 inches (2.5 - 7.6 cm) in diameter
For the safety of our animals, we only ship live fish, crabs, and select other inverts exclusively via UPS 1 Day Air. If your order contains this item, you will only see UPS 1 Day Air as a shipping option during checkout. If other items are in your cart that can ship with 2 day or standard shipping options the only shipping method you can still select is UPS 1 Day Air.
UPS 1 Day is a description of the duration of time a shipment will spend in transit once it has been shipped. This does not guarantee the package will be shipped the same or next day from which the order was placed.
Shipping Schedule for this service
Current Handling Time:
1-9 business days
Here at Aquatic Arts, we consider the welfare of the live animals we are shipping to be of the foremost importance. This process is much more involved than simply creating a shipping label and affixing it to a box. Depending on the order, it takes from 4 to 7 people to complete this process properly. We check the weather conditions here where they fly out of the Indianapolis UPS facility and the destination for each shipment. We start early each morning and go through a multi-step process to have the day's shipments prepared in time for the UPS pickup. The volume of orders in our system also affects the processing time. Therefore our stated handling time is 1-9 business days.
Shipping Rate
Pricing is by size of package needed to fill entire order and distance it must travel. It will be calculated at checkout.
