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No the female hermit crab flings the eggs into the ocean and when they hatch they swim with plancton. And then they find a shells and once they on shore, they cant breath underwater anymore.
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Are girl hermit crabs small?
There is no difference in size between female and male hermit crabs.
Will a female hermet carb kill a male hermet carb?
I think you mean hermet crabs. yes, a hermit crab female can kill a male if threatened. that is to say if you have crabs weak or strong enough to kill or be killed by one another.
Do male hermit crabs lay eggs?
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What is a name of a male crab?
A male hermit crab is called a geomanta
Do female hermit crabs have one claw and male hermit crab have two claws?
No, they both have two claws. One large one and one small one.
Can hermit crabs get along with turtles?
no because male hermit crabs and femail hermit crabs will fight with each other or other male or femail's over space,if they have a little space and arround 50 hermit crabs there will be fights.i don't want to give you the wrong image but if they have little space and 2-15 there will proubably be no fights.
How do you hermit crabs mate?
It is very hard to breed hermit crabs but some people have however. You will need to have a salt water pool and many other things to suit their needs. Seewww.ehow.com/how_2053190_breed-pet-hermit-crab.htmlorwww.ehow.com/how_4421522_mate-hermit-crabs.htmlfor more info.It is very hard to breed hermit crabs but some people have however. You will need to have a salt water pool and many other things to suit their needs. Seewww.ehow.com/how_2053190_breed-pet-hermit-crab.htmlorwww.ehow.com/how_4421522_mate-hermit-crabs.htmlfor more info.
Do hermit crabs mate?
Hermit crabs are hard to breed so if you want work look no further. You need at least five hermit crabs in a large tank with lots of plants. If you do have this and have a few males and females this could get ugly, the males fight to the death for each female and will kill others. When the winner defeats crabs he has the right to mate with any female, and the others have no right. Now this is how they do it. The male first courts her by going close and pinching his claws, then the male forces her to take her shell off by gripping it and taking it off then the takes his off an they mate four thirty minutes tops, then the ending they put the shells on and The End.
Do Land hermit crabs lay eggs?
Yes land hermit crabs do lay eggs if you suppose to have a sot of digged up spot in the tank check for a egg but watch out if you touch the egg the mother will not sense that the egg is hers and hermit crabs carry a disease called salmonella so do not touch 
Can female hermit crabs die in giving birth?
you do not take care ofyour hermit crabs cause i had one and it didn't last long sssooo take care of them cause if you don't they might not be adopted so go and look at them. Their young or the young in the tank...No.Females drop all their eggs into the ocean and the egg hatches and develops over time and then when the crab is ready he climbs onto land and lives there.
Can you tell a girl hermit crab from a boy by its claws?
No, but here's a page with pictures of male and female crabs and how to sex them. http://www.thecrabbagepatch.com/crabanatomy.html
Why is my hermit crab's eyes white?
Your hermit crab is pink because it just molted. hermit crabs are vertibrates which means they need to molt to grow. hermit crabs burrow underground to molt and stay their for a week to months.
