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Cardisomatidae

Carnifex (ID to confirm)

Cardisoma carnifex

Photograph: Wang J.P. · CC BY

Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.

Burrowing · temperate · humidFrom the sheet: 27°C, humidity 80%

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Temperature27 °C
Humidity80 %
Diet7 days

The numbers

Temperature

152025303540 °C
27°Ambient

One ambient band, 27°C. This sheet states no warm side, no cool side and no night figure, so none are shown. Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet states27 °C.

Humidity

80%Target RH

The sheet states80%.

UVB

Not needed for this species

Stated in the sheet, not inferred.

The sheet statesno special/UVB lighting needed; a standard day/night light cycle is sufficient

Enclosure
minimum ~30 gal / ~120 L for an adult, set up mostly as land (at least 90% land area) with several inches of moist burrowing substrate

Identity

Note
⚠ Stock label 'Carnifex' is ambiguous: confirm the exact species with the supplier before care.
Likely
A trade name (e.g. a scorpion/beetle): treat per its true taxon
Family / Order
Cardisomatidae / Decapoda
Authority
(Herbst, 1796)
Origin
Habit
Land crab. Adults live in burrows above the tide line and return to the sea to release larvae

Enclosure and conditions

Enclosure and conditions
Not stated on this sheet. Nothing has been read for the temperature, the humidity or the enclosure of this species, so nothing is written. A land crab kept on a marine crab's numbers dies of it, and a guess here would read exactly like a fact.

What your climate adds

This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.

Diet

Feeding rhythm

every 7 dAs the sheet states
4Meals in 28 days

Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window.

Why

The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56.

The sheet statesomnivorous — vegetables, fruit, fish pellets and shrimp; salt intake supplemented weekly by rolling feeder shrimp in salt

When to see a vet

Not veterinary advice.

What it needs

A thermometerbecause temp — 27 °C.
A hygrometerbecause humidity — 80%.
No UVB: the sheet states none is neededbecause uvb — no special/UVB lighting needed; a standard day/night light cycle is sufficient
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet describes the enclosure without a figure: « minimum ~30 gal / ~120 L for an adult, set up mostly as land (at least 90% land »

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.

Sources

WoRMS / DecaNet, Cardisoma carnifex (Herbst, 1796)

Others in this group

Caribbean / Purple Pincher Hermit CrabCoenobita clypeatusGiant African Land SnailLissachatina fulicaRed Apple CrabMetasesarma aubryiIndonesian / Purple Land Hermit CrabCoenobita brevimanusRuggie Land Hermit CrabCoenobita rugosusVampire Crab (assorted Geosesarma)Geosesarma sp. (e.g. dennerle, 'red devil')Giant Pink-foot / Immaculate Land SnailAchatina immaculataGiant West African / Banana Rasp SnailArchachatina marginata

What this sheet states

77%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 5 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: day/night engine and awake count on the globe, the diet section. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.