What type of bedding should one use for a Watermelon Crab?

Question

I just got one and I can't decide between sand and dirt. Pebbles are out. Watermelon crabs like to burrow...

Answer 1

Water Melon Crabs do need Brackish water. And They Need to be able to reach the surface of the water or they will drown. You can give the crabs either an environment where its like a beach kind of thing except with rocks instead of sand, so they would be able to climb up the rocks and reach the air. Or you can put some type of floating device in the water with a string coming down so the crab can climb up it and reach the air. My advice is do the beach of rocks thing. it just seems easier to. Oh and in case you don't know what to feed them, they'll eat pretty much anything they can get their claws into. I would feed them those shrimp pellets that you would feed a fish, the kind that sink to the bottom though. If I helped you any. Then I'm glad to be of a help.

Also it was very hard for me to find this answer. Does your crab go by another name? If i had a picture it would be easier....

Also... I think the real name for a watermelon crab is a type of fiddler crab....