Hello MFKers!
Today in the mail I just received a medium-sized Cardisoma guanhumi. He's a beautiful animal (although he is quite nasty). I'm a little concerned about a brown/black speck on his left eye. Originally I thought it was a speck of dirt, but he never seems to wipe it off and after several hours of leaving him alone it's still there. it also looks a little different than the coconut fiber bedding I'm using.
It does not seem like his vision is impaired at all; he still tries to pounce at me when I bother him. I know crabs have compound eyes like flies and bees do, but I don't know if any damage to eyes can be healed.
Do a crabs eyes, like just about any of its other appendages, heal and regenerate after molting? Or is this a permanent issue? .... And is this even an issue at all? I don't think it's just dirt but it could be.
Today in the mail I just received a medium-sized Cardisoma guanhumi. He's a beautiful animal (although he is quite nasty). I'm a little concerned about a brown/black speck on his left eye. Originally I thought it was a speck of dirt, but he never seems to wipe it off and after several hours of leaving him alone it's still there. it also looks a little different than the coconut fiber bedding I'm using.
It does not seem like his vision is impaired at all; he still tries to pounce at me when I bother him. I know crabs have compound eyes like flies and bees do, but I don't know if any damage to eyes can be healed.
Do a crabs eyes, like just about any of its other appendages, heal and regenerate after molting? Or is this a permanent issue? .... And is this even an issue at all? I don't think it's just dirt but it could be.
). I really can't get close enough to him to tell but I do believe he is in fact a male crab, which surprises me given how his claws are somewhat similar is size to each other. IDK maybe that's simply because he is young. He does have a large hiding spot to hide under, and he stays there all day. During the night he comes out and I can hear him thumping his chest and making a weird clunking noise. I'm not sure why he's doing it, but my Rainbow crab (Cardisoma armatum) that I had before him did the exact same thing. I'll try switching to gravel in the future, but not quite yet. I hve to haul him in a 2.5 hour trip to my college and gravel might be a bit too heavy. I do have a big, deep dog dish that he likes to bathe in though. I have thus far fed him dried krill, grapes, apples, and hermit crab food. strangely, he seems to love everything EXCEPT the hermit crab food. 
