today when i got home from school i looked in my crabs cage and saw this little bitty fuzzy thing that was about the size of rabbit poop. is it a baby crab or not
2007-01-05 10:34:50 · 3 answers · asked by harleydavidson218 2 in Pets ➔ Reptiles
They are not baby hermit crabs. If it is moving it is probably insect larve, in which case you need to clean the cage and bath the crabs. If it is mold then do the same.
Here is some info about Hermit Crab reproduction.
from http://www.crabzilla.net/
Once the eggs are fertilized, the female hermit crab will attach the egg sac to her abdomen and keep it safe and moist inside her shell until she reaches the ocean. When the expectant mother reaches the ocean, she releases her egg sac into a tidepool, and her extremely tiny, fully aquatic larvae hatch. Land hermit crabs go through several molts in their aquatic stage before they ever even start to look like hermit crabs. When they are almost mature enough to come onto land, the hermit crabs start searching the ocean floor for tiny, tiny shells. Once they find one and come onto shore, they molt again and will lose their ability to survive solely under water and become truely terrestrial.
2007-01-06 11:41:36 · answer #1 · answered by Betty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Might be mold, clean it out.
2007-01-05 19:16:00 · answer #2 · answered by Patrick M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not.
2007-01-05 18:43:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋