Pleopods!!!!

indo · Post by **indo** » 27 Nov 2008, 10:28

My newest pp has 3 pleopods on her abdomen and i wanted to no is it normal for a female to have those or is she pregnant, if she is do wat do i need to do.

erikleeson · Post by **erikleeson** » 27 Nov 2008, 10:51

It means it is a female. How did you see its abdomen?

ladybug15057 · Post by **ladybug15057** » 27 Nov 2008, 11:16

Both females and males have pleopods, but the males are smaller.

http://img.quamut.com/chart/8761/03_lan ... b_body.jpg

But if you look at the drawing on the left here,

http://www.crustacea.net/crustace/images/anomur-6.gif

That is what a pregnant hermie looks like.

indo · Post by **indo** » 27 Nov 2008, 13:00

ok thank you i wasnt sure its been switching shells almost three times a day since sunday and i thought something might have been irritating the abdomen, and when she switched i saw the pleopods. shes also been very aggressive. after she switched tonite one of my pp's Big C. was walking up to her and she just started crawling on him and tryin to pull him out. this happened in there play tank and when i put them in the main tank she acts like a normal crab.

deathbatbabe6661 · Post by **deathbatbabe6661** » 09 Feb 2009, 13:06

that meens it a female

Hermie's rule · Post by **Hermie's rule** » 10 Feb 2009, 02:13

never mind

ladybug15057 · Post by **ladybug15057** » 10 Feb 2009, 04:25

Both females and males have pleopods, but the males are smaller.

Hermie's rule · Post by **Hermie's rule** » 10 Feb 2009, 06:11

Who has the gonopores?

ladybug15057 · Post by **ladybug15057** » 10 Feb 2009, 07:10

http://crabstreetjournal.com/xoops/modu ... ?faqid=120

http://crabbywiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=P

deathbatbabe6661 · Post by **deathbatbabe6661** » 10 Feb 2009, 14:51

females also

Hermie's rule wrote:Who has the gonopores?

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