Hermit Crab Care - How to tell if a hermit crab is dead
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How do you tell if your crab is dead? Well, crabs can often look dead, but not be dead.
For instance this guy, he's been sitting here, he's not moving. He doesn't seem to respond
to anything, but I can assure you he's not dead, and I can tell you how I know why. There's
two tests I like to do, to find out if the crab is dead. There's the limp test, which
is, is the crab limp? Does he move around easily? No, he's in there hard. He doesn't
want to move. He's just being kind of a stinker. He doesn't want to have anything to do with
me. He's not limp, he's not falling easily out of his shell, his legs don't move around
easily, if I push on them. He's in control of his own body. The other test is the sniff
test. Give him a sniff. Trust me, if he's dead, you'll smell it. There's nothing quite
like the smell of a dead crab, and it's pretty pungent, and it's pretty obvious, so if he
doesn't smell, and he's not limp, he's alive. He may be shy, he may be grumpy, but he's
alive.
