Mark picked up 4 yesterday for our tank. Only after he did this did he research them...
One of them won't stay in the water, it climbs the plant and sits on the glass ledge around the top of the tank. We noticed its belly was different to the others and while reading about them on the internet, realised she is pregnant.
It did say they can't survive for more than 2 hours if they don't have access to their water but she does. Everytime we put her back in last night she just climbed out again. She's been there for about 13 hours now.
We didn't want to keep pushing her back in because she is obviously trying to protect her young but I can't even tell if she is alive.
Do you think we should put her back in the water again? Is she just frightened an looking for a safe place to lay her eggs? Or is she trying to kill herself?
I don't think the eggs would survive in our tank anyway because we have so many other fish but I don't want her to die.
We called her 'Jean the Angry Crab' because she looks soooo annoyed.
One of them won't stay in the water, it climbs the plant and sits on the glass ledge around the top of the tank. We noticed its belly was different to the others and while reading about them on the internet, realised she is pregnant.
It did say they can't survive for more than 2 hours if they don't have access to their water but she does. Everytime we put her back in last night she just climbed out again. She's been there for about 13 hours now.
We didn't want to keep pushing her back in because she is obviously trying to protect her young but I can't even tell if she is alive.
Do you think we should put her back in the water again? Is she just frightened an looking for a safe place to lay her eggs? Or is she trying to kill herself?
I don't think the eggs would survive in our tank anyway because we have so many other fish but I don't want her to die.
We called her 'Jean the Angry Crab' because she looks soooo annoyed.