I got four Red Claw Crabs about a month ago, 1 male and 3 females.
On Saturday i got up and saw one sat motionless in one of my plants. After a couple of hours of it been there and not moving i got a little worried about it , so i opened the tank and gave it a poke, it still did not move. So i knocked it out of the plant and picked it up. At that point i realized it was a molt and not a dead crab! Bloody thing scared me half to death, thought it had died on me!
Anyway 2 of the females and the male have all molted now and i am just waiting for the last one to join in! My question is what do i do with the molts? Do i leave them in or am i best taking them out? I think i read somewhere that i should leave them in as the crabs will eat the molt to regain some calcium, or is that shrimp im thinking of?
On Saturday i got up and saw one sat motionless in one of my plants. After a couple of hours of it been there and not moving i got a little worried about it , so i opened the tank and gave it a poke, it still did not move. So i knocked it out of the plant and picked it up. At that point i realized it was a molt and not a dead crab! Bloody thing scared me half to death, thought it had died on me!
Anyway 2 of the females and the male have all molted now and i am just waiting for the last one to join in! My question is what do i do with the molts? Do i leave them in or am i best taking them out? I think i read somewhere that i should leave them in as the crabs will eat the molt to regain some calcium, or is that shrimp im thinking of?