"No shell will do!"

[Meznuraie]

I have a crabby (1 of 7) I've had for 4 months now, and the other day I added a new crab to the tank (now 8 total... no more! I swear!) so I'd have something that fit into my extra large (relatively speaking) shells that I had lying around.

I thought the 4 month crabby might have been bullied, when I found it streaking near the new crab, and rinsed it and its old shell, put them in a container, and 5 mins later it was back in. Good-o. So I put it back in the tank.

Next night, look at the tank, and it's naked up in the branches of my wood! So I do the same, put it in a container with it's old shell etc... Come back a few hours later, and it's streaking *again*.

This time I decided to put it in an iso tank alone with 8 shells of a similar size (some slightly larger and smaller etc), and left it alone. It's changed to and from the old shell about 8 times now that I've seen, usually into shells it's already tried, and so I swapped some out with some new ones, and it's still swapping shells non stop.

Any ideas? Or should I just leave it with all the similar shells until it's decided it's settled?



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[FJrocks003]

Crabs drop their shells when to weak to carry them, probably something wrong in the setup. I'd fill out an emergency fourm as this could be serious.