Chili crabs are suitable for raising in sea water. For artificial feeding, appropriate amount of sea salt can be added to fresh water. The scientific name of pepper crab is Tan's mud crab, which is an animal of the genus Mud crab in the family Sand Crabidae. Distributed in Japan, the east coast of Korea, and Jiangsu, Shandong, Bohai Bay, Liaodong Peninsula and other places in mainland China. They mainly live in caves and in the supratidal zone of tidal flats at river estuaries. Chili crabs are essentially mud crabs. If you raise them as ornamental crabs, you need to pay attention to the breeding environment with sediment and the water level should not be too deep.

Things to note when raising chili crabs:

1. Can they be raised? Use sand or fine pebbles as the bottom, but try to use thicker mud because Tan mud crabs have the habit of digging holes.

2. Never raise it in deep water. If it cannot be raised in deep water for a week, it will die suddenly.

3. Chili crab can eat a lot of food, such as aquatic plants, algae, fish meat, shrimp meat, fish insects and various corrosive animals and plants. You can also feed it shrimp food to ensure its growth. healthier.

4. The breeding temperature is generally 12-31 degrees, but mud crabs can also withstand low temperatures as low as 3 degrees.

5. Chili crab is very sensitive to water quality. After it eats food, it is best to clean up the food residue in the tank, otherwise it will die if the water quality deteriorates.