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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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