How can tell hermit crabs from male to female?

Answer 1

If you look at the underside of your crab, on it's last pair of walking legs under it's abdomen, a female will have a dot on each side, these dots are called nonporous. They are what determines whether or not you have a female or a male crab.

its hard to tell if your hermit crab is a male or female when there in their shell the girls are most likely to be smaller in size than the male but never ever pull your hermit crab out of its shell to see if its a male or a female they probably would like to be pulled in half then give up its home

Answer 2

The female land hermit crab has tiny genital openings called gonopores. The gonopores are located on the first segment of the back pair of walking legs. They are close in to the body, near the joint of the cephalothorax and abdomen. But see, the male crabs DON'T have this. so, that's how you can tell. It sounds difficult to tell the difference because you have to hold the crab close to you and look real good, but, its actually Pretty simple.\Also if you look AT the big claw on the hermit crab is purple or blue it is a Female ! If it is red then it is a Male

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Your hermit crab has to have a gender you can tell by these hole looking things on their side ( forget the name) u cant see them because they are under their shell.NEVER ATTEMPT 2 PULL THEM OUT OF THEIR SHELL THEY WILL RIP IN HALF! hermit crabs will hold teirselves in till they rip:(

Answer 5

When you pick up a hermit crab, it should come out of its shell enough for you to see. look at the back of it, if you see two black dots, which are called the gonopores, it's female. If you don't see any dots, it's male.

Answer 6

If you look at the bottom inner stomach of a female hermit, you will see two tiny dots where eggs come out!

Answer 7

There are many theories, but scientists are still trying to discover that out.

Since not much attention has been focused on the hermit crab

Answer 8

if you gently flip over the crab, On the last set of legs, look at it. Does it have 2 dots? if it does, its a girl. If it doesnt have 2 dots, its a male.