How do you know if your land hermit crab is pregnant?

if it is a land hermit crab then no,

They cannot live with a land hermit crab because land hermit crabs live out of water so the fish would die (as you know) if it is out of water.

The land hermit crab has a big claw and a small claw. The ocean hermit crab's claw's are the same size.

Australian land hermit crab was created in 1909.

Scientists have been studying that question for years and still say that so far there is no way to tell with gender the hermit crab is. Also they don't know how to breed a hermit crab in captivity because the crab eggs go floating through the pcean and we don't know what mixed in with the crab's egg.

Most likely a land hermit crab, but you should always check with the person that sold it to you.

It turns out to be very easy to tell if a crab is pregnant. First, look at the crab and make sure it's a crab and not a squirrel or something. If so, it's not pregnant, because crabs don't get pregnant. They lay eggs instead.

Birgus latro, coconut crab Ciliopagurus strigatus, Halloween hermit crab Clibanarius tricolor, Blue legged hermit crab Coenobita cavipes Coenobita clypeatus, Caribbean hermit crab Coenobita compressus, Ecuadorian hermit crab Coenobita perlatus, strawberry land hermit crab Coenobita variabilis, Australian land hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus Pagurus pollicaris, flat-clawed hermit crab

Here is a page with descriptions and pictures of a few different species of land hermit crabs. http://www.hermit-crabs.com/species.html The most common land hermit crabs: Coenobita cavipes Coenobita clypeatus, Caribbean hermit crab (this is the most common) Coenobita compressus, Ecuadorian hermit crab Coenobita Rugosus Rug land hermit crab Coenobita perlatus, strawberry land hermit crab Coenobita variabilis, Australian land hermit crab Coenobita Brevimanus Indo land hermit crab Here are some marine hermit crabs http://www.public.coe.edu/departments/Biology/hermit.html Other Crabs: Birgus latro, coconut crab Ciliopagurus strigatus, Halloween hermit crab Clibanarius tricolor, Blue legged hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus Pagurus pollicaris, flat-clawed hermit crab

no because they could be land hermit crab and die

Well as far as I know a hermit crab kept as a pet can live as long as 30 years. A hermit crab in the wild can live as long as 50 years.

If your crab is has bin living land for any period of time, it's a land crab.If your crab is has bin living in the sea for any period of time, it's a sea crab.(:

You can tell a land hermit crab from a water hermit crab by looking at the claws/arms or legs. If it is a water crab it will be blueish and if land crab it will be pinkish purpleish. If your crab is a water crab don't just throw it in water and leave it there, put a tiny bowl in it's tank or cage that is low to the ground and make sure that the water level is a bit lower than the hermit crabs top of its legs. Also have a wet sponge for each kind of hermit crab in the crabs tank.

you keep poking it with a stick or your finger until it moves

If you want to, sure. Land hermit crabs like what ever is knew to them, and it shouldn't affect the hermit crab. We had a hermit crab, and when we put a birch tree branch in, he climbed right on.

Land Hermit Crab Babies Are Microscopic And Live In the Ocean. It Is Near Impossible To Raise Baby Hermits In Captivity

Do you mean the scientific name? Land hermit crabs fall under the genus Coenobita and the most common crab is the species Clypeatus.

The actual weight for a strawberry hermit crab if you are holding 1 in your hand in it is about 3 or 4 ounces. The shipping weight for a strawberry hermit crab is 1 pound.

You can catch HUGE hermit crabs in the Caribbean, during a vacation, our family spotted a land hermit crab the size of a baseball!

It often becomes lethargic, will dig, bathe more, and eat more.

The land hermit crab can go underwater, however, they can't breathe underwater. Hermit crab owners should use a sponge in water so the crab doesn't drown.

There are aquatic and land hermit crabs. Some land hermies are the Purple Pincher (PP & the most common) and the strawberry hermit crab.

so when the eggs hatch the baby hermit crabs know where to get the water so they can have it in their shells to breathe.

easy its both they are called alot of different names but it is both

it depends on the kind of hermit crab. marine hermit crabs spend their whole life in the sea, but land hermit crabs live on land near the sea.