Female crabs will only mate once, immediately after they have their terminal moult. Females carry the male's sperm around with them for up to two years. The females can fertilize several batches of eggs with the stored sperm during this time.
yes they are whatever you want them to be.
A lot
1500
The amount of offspring that a hermit crab can give birth to at one time depends largely on the individual organism's size. This can range from 800 and 50000 eggs.
That depends on the crabs. They come in many sizes.
Ghost crabs like all crabs are decapods. This means that they have ten legs.
Zero. Hermit crabs lay eggs.
Approx. 3 dozen, depending on the size of the crabs.
Spiders and crabs both have chitinous exoskeletons and many limbs.
No, hermit crabs like many other creatures have exoskeletons.
Crabs have many predators; fish, octopus, snails, starfish, birds, etc.
Crabs produce a large number of offspring to increase the chance of some surviving to adulthood. However, survival rates are low due to predation, competition for resources, and environmental factors. This results in population numbers remaining fairly constant from year to year despite the high reproductive output.