How do hermit crabs breed?

Strange behavior...Worried there might be waaaaaaaay to many when I get home from my holidays........
Comments welcome.

 

They breed by the female carrying her clutch of eggs attached to her pleopods and as the eggs hatch, she casts them into the water for them to begin their life as part of the ocean's plankton, meaning that it is highly unlikely that the larval crabs would survive a typical aquarium's filtration let alone find enough of the correct plankton food if they did by chance survive the filtration or being slammed into hard surfaces.

Chuck

 

Or being eating by fish, my emerald spawned and all the larva where ate in like 10 mins by my fish.

 

How do they copulate? Do they come out of their shells? Do they carry individual packets of egg/sperm to hand off to eachother?

 

Not sure, my emerald is all by its self, so it had to have "Got its nasty on" before I got it.

 

LOL! Too funny!

I know it's a silly question but I do wonder as I have several blue legs in mine.

 

usually over tequila...

there larval stage is prolonged and they generally become fish or coral food.

 

Tequila has nothin to do with crab breeding...I got crab's after a bottle of tequila and they bred without any feeding...they spread like a california widfire and all I had to do was wear tight jeans.....but tequila and candlelight wont wont help....unless you want small white flea lika crabs....put them in you tank and watch em go.....

 

Hahahahahahaha!!! Shave one side, light the other on fire and start stabbin as they run across

 

They would have to come out of their shells partialy in order for the male to transfer his spermatophore to the female.

Chuck