[Nancy1999]

My mother won a large salt water aquarium on the television show "The Price is Right". My dad was the one responsible for maintaining it for the next 20 years. It was wonderful to watch as children, but poor Dad had his work cut out for him. The balance of nature is very delicate, and one little thing can throw it off. We have a pond now, and it's fairly easy, for me anyway, hubby does most the work, but I do know that you can't just put the fish in the water. You leave them in a plastic bag until the water in the bag is the same temp. as the pond temperature. Just a few degrees off can put their systems through shock. I don't know if it's the same with crabs, do they come in bags of water? RIP little crabbies. I didn't know that crabs lived under water.