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My porcelain died!!


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    Default My porcelain died!!

    Recently my porcelain crab molted and when he did I noticed he was missing both of his big claws. He ended up dying the next day. So my question is , is this something that just happens sometime? What do they need to aid them in molting? I would like to get another because he was really social and would come right up to the turkey baster when I would spot feed him, but I wanna make sure it doesn't happen again. His tankmates were a yellow clown goby, a royal gramma, a pom pom crab(that was just added the same day he died), a candy stripe pistol shrimp and a yellow rose goby and a two spot blenny.

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    Its hard to say exactly what happened to it. I had a porcelain crab that took an unfortunate trip into a powerhead when his RBTA decided to commit anemone suicide. He faired better than the RBTA as I found him sitting on top of the powerhead (and the RBTA was blended into bits and no longer existed.) However at some point during the unfortunate event he lost a claw. So I moved him down where he could find another host...however within a matter of minutes one of my shrimp came out and ripped his other claw off! Within another minute, nassarius snails and crabs had him flipped over and ate him. I guess the point of my story is, the other critters in the tank seem to sense distress and it doesn't take long for bad things to happen.

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    It does just happen sometimes. Mine lost his claws during a molt but was more fortunate than Jim's in the fact that none of his tank mates took advantage of his clawless state. He ended up getting a new, although much smaller pair, the next molt. Like all inverts iodine is important in the molting process but so is privacy. I Think damage is more likely to happen if they are disturbed and struggle during the molt.
    Jen.

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