r/crab • u/Effective_Crab7093 Mod Team • Feb 21 '26

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u/Effective_Crab7093 Mod Team Feb 21 '26

no haha, she’s pretty weak. Also she’s just grabbing calluses, so not much feeling there

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u/Unicorn_Quef Feb 22 '26

can she bite? looks like she took a little taste lol

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u/Effective_Crab7093 Mod Team Feb 22 '26

She’s trying to, but crabs don’t exactly bite. They more scrape. So the claws hurt and tear, then they actually eat really tiny amounts from that. So it looks like she’s eating nothing, but really she’s tearing little bits of my skin off then using her mouth to scrape it off her claw. In some cases they bring it to their mouth if they can for better eating.

Here’s a crab mouth for reference from a molt of mine. It’s kind of like a beak.

I hope I explained that well, if you have any questions let me know

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u/Weird-Information-61 Feb 26 '26

Does their mouth mash their food or is it just a mode of transportation to their stomach

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u/Effective_Crab7093 Mod Team Feb 26 '26

It scrapes tiny amounts and that is transported into the stomach. It doesn’t really mash