Possible molter under water pool?

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Re: Possible molter under water pool?

Post by Hermias_mom » Fri Apr 21, 2017 5:18 pm

kfinnz wrote:Whoa! That's a cool method, once he comes up I think I'll switch to doing that!! For now I'm doing the turkey baster thing haha.
Here's a link to a post LadyJinglyJones did recently on nested bowls and air stones/bubblers for increasing humidity.
http://www.hermitcrabassociation.com/ph ... r#p1030388
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Re: Possible molter under water pool?

Post by DreaminginBlue » Sat Apr 22, 2017 6:00 pm

So true about the turkey baster... I bought one not for turkeys (we never eat turkey, we do ham on thanksgiving) but solely for fish feeding. LOL. They are messy and picky eaters sometimes... turkey basters are super handy. :lol:

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Re: Possible molter under water pool?

Post by GotButterflies » Sat Apr 22, 2017 7:26 pm

I use a gravel vacuum- much quicker than turkey Baster- but - my pools might be larger.


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Re: Possible molter under water pool?

Post by Menders » Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:58 pm

kfinnz wrote:I'm sorry my camera is super old and doesn't show it very well since the spot I can see is small. I'm not sure if it's algae or a bacteria bloom (I don't know what the bloom is). Maybe algae if that can grow. It's bright green like someone dyed the sand where it is and I can still see the grains of sand in it. Doesn't look fuzzy like a mold, but the green color made me assume it was.

I would keep an eye on the "bright Green" spot. If you remove it or check some sub (near it so you don't disturb the molter...)not over the cave and it smells like rotten eggs or sulfur; you have a bacterial bloom (unless you have fed eggs and one is buried and rotting) Bacterial blooms some times happens when the sub gets to wet or you in unknowingly have a flood from water bath and bacteria grows. There are other reasons too I'm sure... A crabitat has the perfect conditions for a bacteria to grow. I had one once and I thought it was algae. There was no smell until I had disrupted the surface and it was foul!


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