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by keerstn
Mon Oct 20, 2014 1:07 pm
Forum: Emergency
Topic: Is he dead or not??
Replies: 10
Views: 1778

Re: Is he dead or not??

Funny you should say that about captivity… This is the guy who was always trying to get out - and once, managed to do so - and get halfway across the house AND downstairs before we found him! Still not sure how that happened. But that was many moons ago - not sure what caused this bout but we have, ...
by keerstn
Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:37 am
Forum: Emergency
Topic: Is he dead or not??
Replies: 10
Views: 1778

Re: Is he dead or not??

We got rid of the moss, but it said 'Terrarium Moss' and it was a regular green moss. It was supposed to help with humidity. He might have gotten an injury because he DID molt when we first got him - but he was in that shell for many months, and he seemed to want to go back to that shell, but it was...
by keerstn
Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:17 am
Forum: Emergency
Topic: Is he dead or not??
Replies: 10
Views: 1778

Re: Is he dead or not??

We posted on here when our crab was naked - and desperately tried to reshell him. He kept going from shell to shell, unhappy with all of them, and now he is … I guess he's dead. We don't know what the issue was, because it was quite sudden and we had a fairly flawless crabitat. We didn't have saltwa...
by keerstn
Fri Oct 17, 2014 8:09 am
Forum: Emergency
Topic: Is he dead or not??
Replies: 10
Views: 1778

Re: Is he dead or not??

He left his shell several days before we found him like this. So I have one person saying yes, dead, and the other saying molting. See how this could be a problem? I have no idea….
by keerstn
Thu Oct 16, 2014 9:43 pm
Forum: Emergency
Topic: Is he dead or not??
Replies: 10
Views: 1778

Is he dead or not??

How long should we wait for a hermit crab, out of its shell, to show signs of life? We were assuming ours was dead, but it does *not* have a death smell. It hasn't moved even one millimeter in a week. It's all balled up and had buried itself under a log (without its shell). We'd like to bury it if i...
by keerstn
Sun Oct 12, 2014 11:21 am
Forum: Emergency
Topic: second dead crab
Replies: 6
Views: 1488

Re: second dead crab

We have moved the heater to the side of the tank - much closer to the thermometer, and also 2/3 of the heater is above the substrate, and now the thermometer says it's 42 degrees in there. There's NO WAY it's 42 degrees in there. So we are getting a new thermometer. And we have put in instant ocean ...
by keerstn
Sat Oct 11, 2014 9:09 am
Forum: Emergency
Topic: second dead crab
Replies: 6
Views: 1488

Re: second dead crab

My husband insists that the heater installation REQUIRES us to keep the heater on the bottom of the tank - and if we move it, it won't stick anymore. (We tried to restick one when we moved them from a smaller tank to this one.) Our house is always at least 70 degress (and was 75-80 in the summer bec...
by keerstn
Sat Oct 11, 2014 8:24 am
Forum: Emergency
Topic: second dead crab
Replies: 6
Views: 1488

second dead crab

I posted on here a few weeks ago, when our crab was naked and running from shell to shell. He finally disappeared and we thought he was molting - didn't see him again until last night, we found him under a log and, from what we can tell, quite dead. This is the second crab (of five) that we've lost ...