very wierd...(krabs)?

Question

my krab has just dies and i have 2, so since it dies i now have 1. I dont know what gender they both are but when the one died i got the dead krab out of its shell and stuck it in a box to burry the reason why i got the dead krab out is so my alive krab could move into its shell... but strangely this morning i found 2 krabs and whats wierd is my krab dies about 3 weeks ago. my question is did it have babies or did i leave a leg in the shell and it grew back its body? and now the new krab is larger then the other, so im not sure if one of the krabs had babies/

Answer 1

That is bizarre, maybe they did have babies.

Here is a website on hermit crab reporoduction that may help

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/hermitreprofaqs.htm

Answer 2

I dont know much about crabs, but theire crustacees, and they probably lay eggs, maybe the one that died was a female, there were eggs in the shell and the other crab, that was a male, fertilized them.

Answer 3

Your "dead" crab probably just molted. They do that and the shell they leave behind can look like the real deal.

Answer 4

simple answer

the crab shed it's outer shell, it didn't die
and then hid a few days for the new one to harden

baby theory throw that one out it would be much smaller not bigger

and they can regrow legs from the body, but not a body from a leg

Answer 5

maybe your crab just molted.
that's what crabs do when they are growing.
basically the grow out of their old skin and shed it to get new skin that fits around their body better
their old skin looks just like the real crab itself.
I've had my crabs molt many times.
they do it about 25 times in their life.

here's some websites about molting
http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/Kodiak/shellfish/cultivation/crabGrow.htm
http://www.serc.si.edu/education/resources/bluecrab/molting.jsp
http://exoticpets.about.com/od/hermitcrabs/f/hcmoltordead.htm
http://stormyshermitcrabs.tripod.com/id5.html
http://www.beach-net.com/crabs/Crabmolting.html
http://www.crabstreetjournal.com/articles/lisa/moulting.htm
i guess they might be babies, but don't you think you might have noticed it before they got big?

Answer 6

It sounds to me like someone is playing a trick on you. Or, perhaps your mom or sister just wanted to get you another so you wouldn't be sad.

Answer 7

its called sluffing kinda like when you have soft crabs the crabs shed thier shel and a new one grows back and its bigger thats why they sluff so it will happen like every 6 months

Answer 8

Whoa thats some freaky sh*t! I wanna know the answer- gotta put this on my watchlist.

Answer 9

Enjoy your 2 crabs!!!