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by beccas_hermit_crabs
Thu Oct 15, 2015 9:52 pm
Forum: Crab Behavior
Topic: Dipping eyestalk down?? Normal cleaning or worrisome?
Replies: 5
Views: 869

Re: Dipping eyestalk down?? Normal cleaning or worrisome?

Thank you for the tips to improve! Definitely a lot to learn and get right off the bat.
by beccas_hermit_crabs
Tue Oct 13, 2015 10:56 pm
Forum: Crab Behavior
Topic: Dipping eyestalk down?? Normal cleaning or worrisome?
Replies: 5
Views: 869

Re: Dipping eyestalk down?? Normal cleaning or worrisome?

Thank you for the welcome! I took a look at Gibbs and there are no mites or signs of them, nor are there bits of substrate on the eye stalks. He just "cleans"/rubs his eye with the small arm. Here is some more information if you'd like (conditions will be improving! I've been constantly anxious abou...
by beccas_hermit_crabs
Tue Oct 13, 2015 10:01 pm
Forum: Crab Behavior
Topic: Dipping eyestalk down?? Normal cleaning or worrisome?
Replies: 5
Views: 869

Dipping eyestalk down?? Normal cleaning or worrisome?

I am a fairly new hermit crab owner as of 2 weeks now. One of my hermit crabs, Gibbs, (most likely a pp) is pretty lively and likes to explore, so I let him out of the tank to sit with me while I do homework. Today as I was watching him, he kept dipping his eye stalks down one at a time, almost like...