Crab Primer - Rademacher/Mengedoht

In the crab primer Oliver Mengedoht and Monika Rademacher present the most beautiful crabs for the aquarium, the aquaterrarium and wet terrarium. The invertebrate boom of recent years has also brought the funny shaped and often beautifully colored crabs into aquaristics and terraristics. They have now secured a firm circle of enthusiasts in the hobby.

The authors of The Crab Primer share here their rich experiences in keeping and breeding crabs. The Crab Primer is an unbeatable practical handbook that explains everything about keeping, caring for and propagating freshwater crabs, terrestrial land crabs and also mangrove crabs. The handy primer finally summarizes all the important information about these great, colorful crabs for the aquaterrarium, aquarium or terrarium and gives valuable practical tips for a species-appropriate attitude of these special decapods.

Here you will find not only detailed species portraits, but also general tips on husbandry and care, diseases and problems , as well as everything worth knowing about molting, nutrition, reproduction and the proper handling of crabs. The Crab Primer will help you to enjoy your funny scissor knights for a long time.

The two authors are known to many aquarists and terrarium enthusiasts from trade shows and events as crab enthusiasts of the first hour. They lecture and write technical articles for various aquarium magazines and websites. Ollie Mengedoht is also the editor-in-chief of the two well-known magazines Caridina and Aquaristik published by Dähne Verlag.

Scope: 96 pages
Format: 22.2 x 17.5 cm
Illustrations: 160 color photos
Cover: Hardcover