Mounting crabs

[aussiepighunting]

Gday from qld aus.

I'm after some tips on how to mount crabs. I presume you would take the carapace off and clean old the insides. How do you clean out the claws and legs etc.? I thought I read that you use a syringe and inject formaldehyde but wouldn't you have to clean out some meat first to stop it from stinking. Any tips I can receive would be appreciated. We get mud or mangrove crabs over here which I can just duck down to the creek about 15 minutes away and catch some.

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Thanks for your time

Regards Troy

[Matt]

I believe there is a tutorial on here that George did on blue crabs. You might want to check it out.

[CrabCrazy]

most of the meat can be removed by extrcting from inside the shell.....for the pincher part i either break it off or cut around the membrane behind the pincher claw...in the small part of the legs i inject DA-borax solution....the reason i do it this way, is that the crab will dry fast....like 8 days....or you can use George's method to inject the whole crab...whatever method you use will work...i'm use to my method..as i can clean a lot of crabs fast....also by getting inside you can add small gauge wires to the legs to help pose it...in any method the crabs do become very brittle, i usually coat the entire crab in envrotex resin after painting to protect it....or put it in a case

[aussiepighunting]

Thanks for the quick responses I'll check out the tutorial tonight and I'll see where I can find some borax solution. Once again thankyou

Regards Troy

www.aussiepighunting.com.au

[CrabCrazy]

I forgot Tom Voyer has a video on mounting crabs...don't know what method he uses....

[ginevive]

This might be something that you can answer..Would you do anything special to protect the shed- empty crab shells that they cast off? I have a few from our pet red-claw crabs, and I just have them on a shelf.. they are small (only about 2 inches wide) and neat to save, but I just don't want to find them dust particles one day.