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Keeping fiddler crabs overnight?

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If it is any help, at the bait shop, we put them in a large cooler with a piece of bent up wire screen and just enough water to cover the bottom. No sand or mud. We are able to keep 4 or 5 thousand alive for a week or 2. Changing the water every other day or so. Helps if you tip the cooler a little by placing a 2x4 under one end.

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No water.  That will kill them more quickly than anything else.  Keep them cool.

 

When I worked in a tackle shop, we just had a box/bucket of them in the refrigerator, with nothing added.  The crabs come from the bait wholesaler the same way, just a package of crabs with nothing else.

"I have always believed that outdoor writers who come out against fish and wildlife conservation are in the wrong business. To me, it makes as much sense golf writers coming out against grass.."  --  Ted Williams

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