[krackersmom2]

The color of her abdomen was probably rigor mortis (sp?) the blood pooling.....I'm sorry to hear about her passing. I remember your story well. I know it hurts more when you put a great deal of time and effort into helping them out. You were a good crab mamma! Maybe she was getting ready to go into another molt or it was just her time. Hercules did the same thing when he died, he didn't fall out of his shell....but you he was completely listless and the fishy smell eventually came. Keep my Herbie in you thoughts....he is my little guy that did a surface molt yesterday.