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Gecarcinus quadratus Molting and Care 4-2-2008
I have 2 Halloween
land crabs
<<(Gecarcinus quadratus)?>>
I have 2 Halloween crabs
and one of them shed last night for the first time and it looks as if
all his legs are missing except for his 2 front claws.
<<A bad
molting;
http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/Kodiak/shellfish/cultivation/crabGrow.htm .>>
Do his legs eventually grow back in?
<<Perhaps with a few successful
moltings. What are you feeding? What is the environment? Consider
soaking the food in a marine iodine supplement every so often. Read
here; http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/05/28/Halloween-crab/
and here
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/inverts/arthropoda/crabs/swcrabs.htm
and one more
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/inverts/arthropoda/crustace.htm >>
Thanks,
<<Welcome.>>
Angie
<<Adam J.>>
Anemone Crab Molt taking too long? 9/28/07
I have an
anemone crab that I just purchased on Monday night. As soon as I
introduced him/her to the tank it
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ripped off both it's pincer
claws within an hour. I would have thought the angry clown fish might
have done this except I saw him do it to himself. I removed him to a
tank by itself and Tuesday night it had begun to molt. Well now it's
Thursday and he still hasn't finished the molt. The little guy has
managed to get everything off but can't seem to jettison the old
exoskeleton from the rear. He is still alive but hasn't eaten since he
began this whole ordeal. I've never had one take this long so is this
normal? Or is he in trouble? I think this was probably something he had
started in the dealer's tank (and I didn't notice) and I hope by moving
him I didn't sign his death sentence.
Thanks for the insight
Karen
<Is highly likely either a lack of nutrition, dearth of iodine,
and/or alkalinity/alkaline earth imbalance/paucity. Please read here:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/swcrabdisease.htm
and the linked file
above labeled "Crab Behavior"
Bob Fenner>
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