Neptune Aquatics

Horseshoe crab???

Srt4eric

Vice President
BOD
So I'm at pet club getting cat food and dog treat and they have a horse shoe crab. Are they reef safe? It's kinda neat.
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They grow really big and clumsily knock stuff around. Need a lot of sand in a huge tank to get enough to eat. Not recommended.

I have really wanted to get one. I used to work with a blood product from them used to detect bacterial contamination. Plus they have blue blood based on copper, are related to arachnids with shells, and are a lot older than the dinosaurs in the fossil record.

But no, not recommended :(
 
They grow really big and clumsily knock stuff around. Need a lot of sand in a huge tank to get enough to eat. Not recommended.

I have really wanted to get one. I used to work with a blood product from them used to detect bacterial contamination. Plus they have blue blood based on copper, are related to arachnids with shells, and are a lot older than the dinosaurs in the fossil record.

But no, not recommended :(
LAL testing! I have always thought it was interesting they use their blood for that...
 
They grow really big and clumsily knock stuff around. Need a lot of sand in a huge tank to get enough to eat. Not recommended.

I have really wanted to get one. I used to work with a blood product from them used to detect bacterial contamination. Plus they have blue blood based on copper, are related to arachnids with shells, and are a lot older than the dinosaurs in the fossil record.

But no, not recommended :(
For me it is hard to believe that this test is still an FDA requirement for pharmaceuticals to this day.
 
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