Help My Mithrax Crab Has Be Attacked.

[Harry1996]

ok one min my crab was fine and i hand fed him some food. i whent off for about 3 mins came back he was sitting on a rock with only 1 claw and 5 legs!!!!!!!! hewas pulling were his claw was and eating bits of it. i havnt seen him since.

 

[Morri]

What fish have you got ?

 

[Harry1996]

2 clown fish and 1 dart fish

 

[Morri]

Unlikly to be them unless the clowns went for food in its claws doubtful though

 

[Donya]

Hopefully your crab just ditched the limbs due to getting them stuck/injured or being frightened somehow, although I would also doubt the clowns would be able to do it unless they're quite large by comparison. Unfortunately, I would think it could also be a bad molt in progress. The only crustacean I've seen that ripped off a bunch of its own limbs that fast was a mitrhax-family crab having a bad molt that it didn't survive. In that case, from the discarded limbs it was apparent that the old skin was quite thick (too thick for a normal molt) and the new skin was already hardening under it.

 

[Harry1996]

ok thanks every one. i hope he/she will be ok