I've noticed a huge slowdown in activity from my pitho crab. Had him/her for 10 months. It gets target fed pieces of nori frequently, not daily, and there is a bit of bubble algae and plenty of food floating around in the tank, so I don't think it is starving. It also is not burying itself like it usually does, instead just sitting next to the scoly or just below the trachy, as in the pic below:
It still waves its arms around and will take strips of nori when I wave it in front of him/her, but before it would always come out of the sand energetically waving its arms to grab nori/food. It also has a little bit of GHA growing on its shell near its eyes, which is also the only place in the entire tank where GHA is growing.
Is this pitho crab just slowing down due to old age? I've never seen it molt, but this has been going on for a week or two now, so I would have thought that a mold would already be over and done with. Thoughts?
It still waves its arms around and will take strips of nori when I wave it in front of him/her, but before it would always come out of the sand energetically waving its arms to grab nori/food. It also has a little bit of GHA growing on its shell near its eyes, which is also the only place in the entire tank where GHA is growing.
Is this pitho crab just slowing down due to old age? I've never seen it molt, but this has been going on for a week or two now, so I would have thought that a mold would already be over and done with. Thoughts?
