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silver616 · 05-13-2008, 04:57 PM

Congrats on your new pets and Welcome to HCRU!!! You'll get lots of great info here!!! When a crab is getting ready to molt, you may notice it spending a lot of time in the salt water dish and eating more than usual. Also, it will bury itself. If it's still above the sand, most likely it's not molting yet. Sometimes, if the substrate conditions aren't right, crabs will molt on the surface, but in that case they usually try to find a quiet, dark spot in the tank (usually under a hidey or something like that). Good luck!!!

05-13-2008, 04:57 PM	#2 (permalink)
silver616 "Preparing For Second Molt" Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 378	Re: Hi new here, new to crabbing Congrats on your new pets and Welcome to HCRU!!! You'll get lots of great info here!!! When a crab is getting ready to molt, you may notice it spending a lot of time in the salt water dish and eating more than usual. Also, it will bury itself. If it's still above the sand, most likely it's not molting yet. Sometimes, if the substrate conditions aren't right, crabs will molt on the surface, but in that case they usually try to find a quiet, dark spot in the tank (usually under a hidey or something like that). Good luck!!!