dgphelps

What are their requirements? From past experience, I know that often times getting something that looks cool, or even tick like without researching it first is normally a bad idea.

FWIW I think the second photo looks kinda cool.

armedbiggiet

bug, it looks like a bug. I do not think it would work well in the USA. I've seen too many of these(ticks) on dogs man!!!

Tex Gal

They are kinda creepy. Did you find them?

jlo

just want to give you guys some update, my friend keep them with their cherries and they are doing very well first they were hiding all the time, but after few days they start come out and eat, they have very short tail and they do swim alot at all, they spend most of their time finding food on the bottom of the tank. And my friend feed them the same food that he feed his chrries.

Jane in Upton

Hmmm, interesting. I've also seen "Micro Crabs" on Aquabid. Still.... a bit too tick-like for me.
-Jane

catfishbi

LOL very ugly man !!!!

Veneer

Well, I'll dissent then. Aegla, as I see them, are one of the most interesting and attractive crustaceans available in the aquarium hobby. They're one of the few anomurans (the same group that contains hermit "crabs," mole "crabs," king "crabs," and squat "lobsters") to occur in freshwater, with quite a few species distributed throughout southern South America.

It's interesting that the overall impression here is that they're tick-like, because I was most strongly reminded me of true crabs or somewhat squashed crayfish when I first saw them.

• Photos of Aegla from the wild
• Habitat shots from throughout Chile

Here's a blue one, Aegla uruguayensis from Arroyo Frayle Muerto (photos from here):

milalic

WOW! I want some of these!

marrow

I want to like them, honestly I do but they just give me the shivers. Maybe a childhood with summers spent pulling hundreds of ticks off my dogs. Some ticks small and brown, some the size of a marble, white and taut from the feed, bloated with rich purplish colored blood, some inadvertently popping as I pulled them off squirting their blood meal, staining fur and fingers, leaving their heads buried in my dogs ass only to be removed later with a pair of hot dog tongs that later left unwashed were used by my pilfering neighbors at their barbecue to my horror and delight.

Perhaps I will become inured to their appearance and grow to appreciate them at some future time, but not today.

ErioLover

Ugly to some pretty to others.

To me it kinda looks like a face hugger. I think they are ugly but I still would try some because they seem so unique