geosesarma - vampire crab pregnant female? (from ny)

[GNOD]

hi everyone!

i've been searching the internet for some additional information on breeding vampire crabs and could not find much and since i've been reading this site for valuable information, I figured i'd post here and ask away.

Does anyone have a photo of a female vampire crab, with their 'stomach' larger than normal when carrying their clutch? I'm not sure if my females are pregnant and would just like to see a photo of one.

thank you!!

[tomarrow]

i ve searched a little bit in the forum and found this : http://www.panzerwelten.de/forum/thread-3415.html

[GNOD]

^WOW...that's so noticeable.. haha

too bad i haven't seen anything like that yet

[Püffi]

Hi Gnod,

welcome to our Forum!

this is a picture of a highly pregnant one:



More pictures are here:

http://www.panzerwelten.de/v/Geosesarma/...ermehrung/

And some more information (in english) you find here:

http://www.panzerwelten.de/forum/thread-711.html

[GNOD]

oh my! that's... really pregnant.. haha
i have the red devil (red claw) and the bi color (photo you posted) variations.
i'm assuming they both carry their young until they're ready to be released?

[Püffi]

Yes they do. The photo is of a "Vampire crab", not a bicolor. But the pregnancy looks quite the same

[Ollie Mengedoht]

Welcome in our "shell-worlds" GNOD

NY state or city?

The first picture under http://www.panzerwelten.de/v/Geosesarma/...ermehrung/ shows a berried female where You cannot see very much yet. This one:

The further progress You can see here http://www.panzerwelten.de/v/Geosesarma/...3.jpg.html and then here http://www.panzerwelten.de/v/Geosesarma/...3.jpg.html .

One sign is if You can see the pleiopods looking out of the abdomen at the sides. With normal females You don't see these appendages but when they get berried the eggs take some room in the abdominal cavity and push the pleiopods outside.