HCA: Hermit Crab Association

mine do that all the time and they love to sleep on their wood pieces LOL

I would say over crowding too but if you have your 29 not as a topper and connect the two with just the 10 and if you have enough substrate in the 29 and 50 (I'd say 8 plus inches cause you have big crabs) then you should be fine for now.

this sounds great!
I have a second shell shop on a second level and they've never fallen and broken!

he could've been attacked by another one of your crabs if parts of him are missing.
I'm sorry he didn't make it

I would definitely set up an isolation tank. And he needs to get back into a shell. Within the iso tank you can put the crab into a container with a little bit of fresh water in the bottom and you can put in at least three shells and the one he was in before he left it. then make it dark by putting ...

Yes it is normal for more then one crab to be molting. I currently have three molting at the same time as well. So no worries!

ok thank you so much!

ok thank you so much for your help!!
I will be sure to set that up ASAP

So in the iso tank he has several other shells available to him and they are on a tray with a little bit of the fresh water and he seems to be more active without his shell on. I read the link you attached and I've already done everything it says except for holding him in my hand. He also currently ...

If he is still eating and climbs around then it is probably him just digging to dig. Everything about your tank sounds great.

So a couple weeks ago I had a hermit crab that came up from a molt and he was acting weird and within the next night I noticed that he was missing a leg so when I took a closer look he was missing more then one and he wasn't really moving. So I had put him in an isolation tank next to the main set u...