Help! My female fiddler crab escaped from the tank. I found her15 minutes ago and put her back in the tank. Ever since, she has been floating at the surface, unable to remain still unless she's clinging to a tank decoration or the filter intake. She's moving with the current and seems to have no control whatsoever. She can't get down to the bottom of the tank or to her "dry dome" where there's land for her to hang out on.
She lost 1.5 legs in the escape but two more might be injured (it's a little hard to tell). She has escaped once before, months ago, and lost 4 legs (!) at that time. I thought I'd crab-proofed the tank since then, but evidently not. She recovered from that escape just fine, moving normally and eating just fine despite the missing limbs. She regained a full set of legs in her next molt, which was a few weeks ago.
This time, however, things look dire. I don't know how long she was out of the tank; she was in her dome last night when I went to bed but I didn't see her when I fed the fish this morning and I just found her on my kitchen floor now, about 12 hours after I last spotted her.
Any ideas? Here's a link to video footage so you can see what's happening: 20170611_105027.mp4
She lost 1.5 legs in the escape but two more might be injured (it's a little hard to tell). She has escaped once before, months ago, and lost 4 legs (!) at that time. I thought I'd crab-proofed the tank since then, but evidently not. She recovered from that escape just fine, moving normally and eating just fine despite the missing limbs. She regained a full set of legs in her next molt, which was a few weeks ago.
This time, however, things look dire. I don't know how long she was out of the tank; she was in her dome last night when I went to bed but I didn't see her when I fed the fish this morning and I just found her on my kitchen floor now, about 12 hours after I last spotted her.
Any ideas? Here's a link to video footage so you can see what's happening: 20170611_105027.mp4
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