How to tell if hermit crab is a male or female Post by Crab » Mon Oct 02, am Is there a way to tell if your hermit crab is a female by seeing how big it is? If it's big does it mean it's a female?
I have 5 hermit crabs and still can't figure out the gender of them without the hard thing trying to find their gonopores. Is there any other ways to tell of the gender of my hermit crabs? Re: How to tell if hermit crab is a male or female Post by aussieJJDude » Mon Oct 02, am Females also have hair like appendages on their abdomen which can only be seen when they changing shells.
They called pleopods. Actually I have found that is not that difficult, provided your hermit crab is willing to come rather far out of its shell for you.
The female land hermit crab has tiny genital openings called gonopores. The gonopores are located on the first segment of the back pair of walking legs. They are close in to the body, near the joint of the cephalothorax and abdomen. These legs include claws, grooming legs and walking legs.
A male hermit crab will have tufts of hair that can be located at the bottom of his 5th pair of legs. The female hermit crab contains small openings known as gonopores. According to The Hermit Crab Patch, a female hermit crab's gonopores can be found directly on the top segment of the female's 3rd pair of walking legs.
The gonopores can be relatively small to see, and using a magnifying glass can help you discern the genital openings. If you can manage to identify gonopores, then you have a female hermit crab. A male hermit crab won't have any appendages on his abdomen. A female hermit crab will have three feathery looking appendages only on the left side of her body.
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