Found this dead...

[whaase]

I was looking in the tank today. I noticed this crab dead upsize down in the front of my tank. I didn't even know I had it! Would my blenny have done it? That's the only thing bigger than it in my tank... Interesting though.



Walter

[Aquattro]

Probably just a molt. I find them all the time. No crab inside though...

[whaase]

Would it have that much color and thickness to it?

Walter

[Delphinus]

It will basically look exactly as it did when the crab was "wearing" it.

The way you can tell if it's a molt, I think they break out the backside. So if the back side is open (like a garage door almost) it's likely a molt. If the backside is intact then it might not be a molt.

[whaase]

Well, I used a pencil and poked it open. I'm not 100% sure what It should have looked like, but there was not much inside. So I guess it was a molt. I wonder where the little guy is hideing.......? And is he bad?

Walter

[EmilyB]

He looks like a baby mudcrab. And it probably is a molt. I couldn't believe how much the molt of my guy weighed. Thought for sure he was a goner.



He lives under the sand behind the rock and comes out at night. Knocks everything over on the sand. I don't mind him, but I wouldn't have him in my reef.

[whaase]

I'll have to get a red light and watch one night.

Thanks! Walter