Violet92
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Please can someone give me information on a red clawed crab that's pregnant? What does a pregnant crab look like?
Please can someone give me information on a red clawed crab that's pregnant? What does a pregnant crab look like?
Andy Sager said:A pregnant crab is actually very easy to spot because they carry their eggs outside the body.
If your crab has mated, or has been mated, you will see a cluster of eggs
underneath her in the triangular flap of the carapace.( they are usually a brownish color but some crabs have colored eggs.)
When she is ready to release them, in the wild they would become part of the Plankton until they metamorphised. In the tank, they will either become food for your other fish or caught in the filter I'm afraid.
If you are serious about trying to raise the babies, you may want to put her into a tank that has just an airstone for circulation with no other filtering other than maybe live rock. It's a process!
Hope this helps...
Shark_Bait said:Are you sure it's not molting??
Shark_Bait said:Are you sure it's not molting??
sheilak said:im from fl and have seen many wild crabs carring eggs and it really looks like she is carrying eggs but what too do to save them i dont know the wild crabs just releases them when time is right and the float until they develop and they will molt after a few days then keep molting as they grow but i dont know how to keep them from being fish food which almost all do in the wild
sheilak said:i have only seen them on the tv on animal show they are very very tiny very hard too see with eyes
oh man maybe I should put the crab in a new tank