Tiny Brown/Red Crab

[cysco1187]

Not a hermit BTW.

 

[silverado61]

Like I said, if it molted, its new shell will be soft for a few days and went into hiding to protect itself till the new shell hardens. Give it a week or two just to be sure. If you don't see it by then, it did, indeed, die. If you do see it. Be "Happy Happy Happy"!

 

[cysco1187]

I hope he didn't die. I also saw something a couple hours after lights out that looked like a really tiny whitish opaque(sp?) shrimp (only a couple mm big) and it kind of like floated around the bottom. It was a little curled up at the back side and six of its back legs were sticking out every which way. Any ideas on what it could've been? I really need to get a camera.lol

 

[jay0705]

Amphapod or copepod

 

[cysco1187]

Good or bad?

 

[jay0705]

Excellent

 

[cysco1187]

Great! Are they just scavengers?

 

[jay0705]

Pretty much yes

 

[silverado61]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cysco1187 http:///t/397536/tiny-brown-red-crab/20#post_3543568
Great! Are they just scavengers?
And food for the fish.

 

[cysco1187]

Quote:
Originally Posted by silverado61 http:///t/397536/tiny-brown-red-crab/20#post_3543559
Like I said, if it molted, its new shell will be soft for a few days and went into hiding to protect itself till the new shell hardens. Give it a week or two just to be sure. If you don't see it by then, it did, indeed, die. If you do see it. Be "Happy Happy Happy"!
I saw him!

 

[silverado61]

Nothing but smiles for ya dude!

 

[cysco1187]

My peppermint shrimp just molted too!

 

[trigger40]

its cool isnt it. did he eat his shell?

 

[cysco1187]

No

 

[trigger40]

my inverts do it all the time, its kinda gross lol.

 

[cysco1187]

lol

 

[silverado61]

Kinda like a chicken eating the shells after the chicks are born. Or...... my brother eating his boogers when he was a kid. (Maybe he still does,)