sally lightfoot...

ekclark

ekclark

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I ordered a invert package from here and I might have a problem...I have not seen my sally lightfoot crab in about a week and I am getting ready to form a search party. I have only had him for a little more than a week so do they hide like this? I have a 75 w/100# of lr so I guess the little guy has enough places to hide, but is it more likely dead? Should a tear my tank apart looking for a possible corpse? Any expirence with these guys? Thanks
 
carrie1429

carrie1429

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He might have molted. They will molt if they are stressed then they hide for about a week so their new shell can harden, most likely he is just hiding, but if he still does not show up in the nest couple days I would look for him.
 
fishfood

fishfood

Member
yea mine used to hide all the time. But not anymore. found him belly up when i came home from work. trying to figure out what is wrong. it might have been that a rock fell on him.
 
dmurphy

dmurphy

Member
same thing happened to me... Just turned up belly up one day in the front of the tank. No clue why.. pretty creepy actually! . Both of mine were really active, they didn't seem to hide much. always scavenging.
 
jferrier

jferrier

Member
My roomate has one and I've seen it a total of about 3 times since he got it over 6 mos. ago. It's always in hiding. As long as water quality is on par its probably just found a comfortable area out of site.
 
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