My crab has been under for over a month now, and we’re expecting it to come up any day. We haven’t heard anything at all until this morning, when I heard it digging around and scraping against the glass of the tank for about an hour, but it went silent after a while. It’s the end of the day and the crab still hasn’t come up.
I guess it decided to tunnel and molt under the water pool, so I’m wondering if I should pick up the pool in case it can’t figure out how to get out from under it (it’s a critter keeper for size reference).
I don’t want to disturb the crab if it’s not ready, but I’m worried that it might be stuck at the same time. Should I lift the pool or leave it?
**there is about seven to eight inches of substrate in the entire enclosure. The pool is buried in the substrate but doesn’t touch the bottom. Underneath the pool there is a little over an inch of substrate; that’s where the crab is. Not sure why it chose to go under there instead of literally anywhere else, but I don’t make the rules.
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Crab was/is molting, but I can hear it moving
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Re: Crab was/is molting, but I can hear it moving
Just wait. He will figure it out.
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