Crabs buried have not resurfaced
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 5:32 am
Hi. I'm new to crabbing and bought 4 crabs at the shore not knowing all I know now about not buying them from such places and out of the 4 only 1 survived. I bought all the necessary substrate , things to climb on , salt water , bottled spring water, and use the food list from here as a list of safe foods to give them. So being they need friends I got more at a small pet shop in town that actually takes care of them 
. So they were all hanging out and would come out mostly at night. I've been giving them a boat load of food to choose from and take it out after a day and at night I put something fresh in there. Paco the one that survives loves honey lol , anyway the 4 I bought I guess about a week or maybe even a week and a half now buried themselves and I haven't seen them at all and I work late afternoons so I'm up all night and I've been watching to see if they have come up. Pack the oldest one that survived stayed up too and was climbing an oak stick I got and the others actually seemed to love it to when they were up top. I noticed 2 holes and runnels so I figured that maybe 1 or 2 of them might be molting , but now even paco my oldest one has buried himself and no one has come up now for at least 2-3 days not even for food or water. I did notice that before the last 2-3 days that I would see sand and substrate in the fresh water and see the food was eaten or at least moved around. The humidity is about 80% never under 75% and the temp is 75 . Sometimes it may go as high as 80 or as low as 70 but 99% of the time it's 75-80% humidity and 75 degrees in the tank. I have a 20 gallon long tank and they are all small crabs . One may be considered medium but they all seem pretty small to me compared to some of them that I've seen. One of the tunnels looks like the crab came out of it and may have buried himself in the sand coconut fiber mix part of the tank and in another section I have some it's like mulch wood and it's for hermit crabs and they just love it. They burry themselves in there most of the time but where the sand meets the mulch you wood there's a hole and a tunnel and that one may be molting but the rest can't all be molting can they? I'm just worried cause they haven't come up for food or water . I don't smell anything fishy and I've been giving them shrimp too . Surprising I don't smell anything with that in there but there's no movement and no ones been up for 3 days now. What should I do if anything and is this normal. I've had paco for I guess 2-3 months now and the other 4 I've had about a month maybe month and a half. They all get along great and paco even went she'll shopping which was really cool to watch. Any insight or advice would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to dig them up and accidentally kill them if this is normal and I should just wait it out . But how long should I wait till I do do something .sorry for such a long post but I just want all the facts to be known so I can get the best possible advice possible. Thanks
. So they were all hanging out and would come out mostly at night. I've been giving them a boat load of food to choose from and take it out after a day and at night I put something fresh in there. Paco the one that survives loves honey lol , anyway the 4 I bought I guess about a week or maybe even a week and a half now buried themselves and I haven't seen them at all and I work late afternoons so I'm up all night and I've been watching to see if they have come up. Pack the oldest one that survived stayed up too and was climbing an oak stick I got and the others actually seemed to love it to when they were up top. I noticed 2 holes and runnels so I figured that maybe 1 or 2 of them might be molting , but now even paco my oldest one has buried himself and no one has come up now for at least 2-3 days not even for food or water. I did notice that before the last 2-3 days that I would see sand and substrate in the fresh water and see the food was eaten or at least moved around. The humidity is about 80% never under 75% and the temp is 75 . Sometimes it may go as high as 80 or as low as 70 but 99% of the time it's 75-80% humidity and 75 degrees in the tank. I have a 20 gallon long tank and they are all small crabs . One may be considered medium but they all seem pretty small to me compared to some of them that I've seen. One of the tunnels looks like the crab came out of it and may have buried himself in the sand coconut fiber mix part of the tank and in another section I have some it's like mulch wood and it's for hermit crabs and they just love it. They burry themselves in there most of the time but where the sand meets the mulch you wood there's a hole and a tunnel and that one may be molting but the rest can't all be molting can they? I'm just worried cause they haven't come up for food or water . I don't smell anything fishy and I've been giving them shrimp too . Surprising I don't smell anything with that in there but there's no movement and no ones been up for 3 days now. What should I do if anything and is this normal. I've had paco for I guess 2-3 months now and the other 4 I've had about a month maybe month and a half. They all get along great and paco even went she'll shopping which was really cool to watch. Any insight or advice would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to dig them up and accidentally kill them if this is normal and I should just wait it out . But how long should I wait till I do do something .sorry for such a long post but I just want all the facts to be known so I can get the best possible advice possible. Thanks