Am I doing a good job with my fiddler crabs?

[PurityNRoses]

Hi, everyone! Me... Again. Hi! So, I've been messing around with my crabitat and on the internet. Everything, from my perspective, is going well. My crabs are pretty much trained to take food from the tweezers, their colors have brightened, they are eating like PIGS (they eat a wide variety, and I'm giving them some vegetables for the first time today), and they are very active and funny. Their personalities are unique. Though, I don't know about the setup. I have a grated top for my tank, and I was wondering if that's okay. It fits super tight and is crab-escape proof- minus that one time when I was redecorating, and my male managed to get up on the bottom of the top and went for an upsidedown climbing session. I don't have a heat lamp, but my females still come out of the water (which is heated to a good 78 degrees). I haven't seen my male climb out as much, and I haven't seen any claw waving. I'm also out of the house for most of the day, so that I could be missing it. Am I doing something wrong? I don't see any burrows either. Then again, I've had them for six days. Am I just overthinking? What do you guys think? I'll take some more recent pictures when I get home.


The last picture is of my old set up. And I swear to God, as I wrote about how my male doesn’t dance, he saw me and did a short dance and is climbing out of the water.

 

[JuDom]

Love your set up! Seems like they are doing well. I’d allow them to adjust for a few weeks before you start to worry. They just moved in

 

[Noroomforshoe]

Looks awesome! They are great litttle pets if you care for them right, and it sounds like you are caring for them right!

 

[JuDom]

Love your set up! Seems like they are doing well. I’d allow them to adjust for a few weeks before you start to worry. They just moved in

Do they not need brackish water?

 

[PurityNRoses]

They do need brackish.