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As crabs have an exoskeleton, they shed their shell when growing. If the shell is hollow then do not worry your crabs just grown a little bit bigger! Crabs are notoriously good escape artist, so it’s not uncommon to find them dried up outside of the aquarium.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 15y agoIf your hermit crab has just dug and hasn't resurfaced there's a good probability that it's either a digger (a crab that just likes to be under the sand) or it's molting, in which is could stay down there in either case for over a month. If your crab is on the surface, picking it up will prove whether it's dead or not. Hermit crabs that are dead will just slip out of the shell when you hold them upside down.
If the crab has dug and hasn't come up it's very important that you not bother it. This will cause it to stress out.
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∙ 13y agoWhen they arent as active, and not eating. But it might be wrong, they might be molting (they get bigger). Another way is, Does your tank smell weirder than usuall? when they die, they stink.
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∙ 15y agoThey are usually moving all over the cage. If the hermit smells fishy, falls out of the shell when picked up, or doesn't respond to a gentle touch to it's antenna, it's toast.
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∙ 11y agoIf it falls out of it's shell, and is limp, lifeless, and smells "off", then it is dead.
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∙ 11y agoYou can tell if a hermie crab is dead by smelling the tank, if it smells like dead fish then a hermies dead...
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∙ 12y agoIf it stops moving
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Can you keep a crayfish as a pet?
Yes, there are several species of freshwater crayfish available in the pet trade. A single crayfish can be kept in a 10-15 gallon or larger tank.
How do you tell if a pet rock is dead?
it is lieing down upsidedown
How do you tell if your pet rock is dead?
a rock is never alive
What do you feed your pet crayfish?
lunch meat
If the mom crayfish is dead . What will happen to the babies Should I take the dead mom out of the tank.?
If the mom crayfish is dead, you should remove her from the tank. Leaving her in the tank can cause bacteria to grow, making the babies sick.
Do crayfish eat worms?
Crayfish will eat just about anything that they like the flavor of. That includes algae, dead fish, dead crawdads, dead birds, dead people. They constantly walk around a pond or such looking for and then sampling things that might be edible.
How do you tell a male crayfish from a female?
they suck private
What is the problem of keeping crayfish as a pet?
One problem with keeping crayfish as pets is that most crayfish can not be in the same tank. The biggest one usually becomes dominant and injures or even kills the others. Another problem is that if a crayfish and their tank are not properly taken care of it can begin to smell very bad.
How many guppies a week do crayfish eat?
Without much more information the question can not be answered accurately. Crayfish are scavengers and guppies are not their natural prey. If the crayfish is small enough and your guppies don't have long flowing fins then the guppies may well be too fast for the crayfish to catch. So the answer then would be none. Are you feeding the crays dead guppies? If so I would add one and see how long it takes the crayfish to eat it. Then I would add more and more dead guppies one at a time as the crayfish devours them. As the crayfish grows so it will eat more.
What level tell you can fish crayfish in runescape?
Level 1.
What do rayfish eat?
Crayfish eat fish, shrimp, worms, insects, water plants, snails and plankton. Crayfish are also known to eat dead plants and dead animals.
Does a crawfish use its tail to swim?
I use to have a pet crayfish he would use his tail to swim I was amazed on how crayfish swim with there tail sadly my brother accidentally put his shoe lase in the tank and the crayfish climbed out with the shoe lase I miss pincher's
