The freshest preservation methods for pike crabs are low temperature preservation, water preservation, and towel covering.

1, low-temperature preservation

Tie the pike crab with a rope to reduce its physical exertion, and then put the pike crab in a foam box equipped with ice packs, and covered with a layer of straw on top of the heat preservation, and then placed in a cool, ventilated place in this environment pike crabs can generally be raised seven to eight days.

2, water preservation

Put the pike crab in a deep bucket with smooth inner wall, then pour water into the bucket, pay attention to the depth of the water can not be over the body of the pike crab, so as not to affect its normal respiration, resulting in early death of pike crabs, and in the late management of the water should be changed in a timely manner, do not turbid water quality, odor.

3, towel cover

Put the bundled pike crabs in a container of suitable size, then wet the towel or gauze with water and cover the wet towel above the pike crabs, and finally put it into the refrigerator for freezing, and pay attention to spraying water to the towel to moisturize it on a regular basis, or replace the wet towel directly.

Morphological characteristics of the pike crab:

The cephalothorax of the pike crab is pike shaped and light gray-green in color, with a round spot in the anterior gill area, the abdomen is white, the chelicerae are purplish-red, with white spots distributed on the surface, the long and carpal nodes of the first three pairs of steppers are white, and the palms are bluish-white, and the fourth pair of steppers are green, with a distribution of white spots, the finger ends are purple-blue, and the pike has a pair of compound eyes on both sides of the forehead.

The breeding period of the pike crab is in April to May every year, when the female crab will migrate and gather in the near-shore foreshore area, and hold the fertilized eggs on the abdominal limbs after they are produced, and wait for the fertilized eggs to hatch into flea-like larvae, and then they will float on their own, and after six moults, they will become juvenile crabs.