Introduction Uca minax is a fiddler crab species found along the United States’ east coast, as well as in the Gulf of Mexico. They are easily differentiable from other fiddler crab species due to their red joints, giving them their common name: a red-jointed fiddler crab (see Figure 1). Males have one major claw on either side of their body, which can grow to be up to fifty percent of their body mass, and a regular-sized claw on the other side, while females have two normal-sized claws (Bethany Fisher). Fiddler crabs live in coastal wetlands in the intertidal regions of the coast, meaning seawater from the ocean periodically floods their habitat based on the high and low tides. Salt marshes are broken down into the high marsh, midshore, and low marsh. The low marsh is the least salty of the three portions; this is due to the fact that is most always submerged by water, lessening the amount of evaporation occurring. The Uca minax mostly inhabit this region of the wetlands due to i...