I’m not sure if cracks on the body portion of a crab’s shell would be fatal or not, or if it would depend on severity. Maybe @Jay Hemdal would know?
did I forget to say I restarted the tank? So I forgot about my tank and I wanted a restart so I got a new filter, new gravel, new stuff, I kept squidward house and big white rock. I cleaned off everything And organized my pile of tank gear into a bin. I put new water and everything in my tank, and I started cycling it with alot of organic matter in there, I put 2 shrimp tails in there and a medium sized basic red rock crab, I fed him a bunch so he could help cycle the tank more, I gave him a bunch of muscles and pismo clams to help. He ate the 2 shrimp tales, pried open and ate all the muscles and clams. Then I needed to go back to the beach to find more to feed him but it was too late and he was gone 1 day, he escaped somewhere outside. I put a bunch of air into my tank and it was super hard for the pump to pump air while it was cycling, I put a forever ammonia tester suctioned to the tank but I think it went bad, I just waited for the air pump to easily start pumping air into the tank to know the water was probably ready. I put a 7 thing water test in and everything was normal. So I put a few muscles in there, a pismo clam, 2 brain coral, a few rocks, 5 small hermit crabs, and a tiny tiny crab that looked like a snow crab, I looked for it in my bucket of creatures but couldn't pinpoint it because it was so small so I just poured the whole thing in there. I changed the filter as well and had some big bioballs in there when i was cycling so i took those out and put the 1 or 2 filter cartages in there. I think I also did a small water change and topped the tank with a few gallons of distilled water since it lost some volume from evaporation and the filter waterfall slowly splashing water away micro drop at a time. The brain coral were super hard to get off the rocks at the beach cuz they were suctioned on and I had a sharp shell to get them off but they started bleeding and balled up so I thought the coral was dead but after I put it on my rock, a few hours later he was alive and stuck to it with the coral appendages waving in the current lively. I need to feed it some fish but my fishing luck at the beach isn't that good. Should I feed them the feed we got a while ago for the ghost shrimp? it was the big metal bag container with the small mini orange pellets inside.
First time I recall hearing about it, so probably, haha.
That would probably be wise.
