Goji came up two days ago, and I realized that he was the largest of the group and had gone down weeks after the others did - so I knew something was wrong. So I decided to go digging, not sure of what I'd find. I moved over the top half of the substrate into a spare 10 gallon, and hadn't found any crabs.
The first one I found was a very dead Napoleon.
This one really hurts because I've had him for months and this was his third molt with me. He was unique among the group because always had to have the largest shell, even if he could barely walk in it. I would put a larger shell in for the crabs that were twice his size and he'd steal it away in just a few minutes. It took forever to decide on a name for him, and for a while I was referring to him as Ferrari, but sassy Napoleon fit him better. I will REALLY miss him. 
I found all the others buried at the very bottom of the tank. They all seem to be okay, but I don't know if there will be lasting effects on them. I can't figure out why they would have wanted to be in that stinking stuff!!! They all could have moved, and I just added two of them last week.
Blueberry was in the middle of his molt. Either he changed color completely (he was the darkest crab in the tank) or he had just popped his exo as he was a very light blue. I'm worried the most about him since he was exposed in all that bacteria.
Wrex was in there and I don't even remember having put him in there.... He was in the EE side so I'm not nearly as worried about him. I'm wondering where Sheldon is though, because I constantly confuse the two and I thought he was up in ISO and Wrex was in the main tank..... I'll have to do a main tank search tomorrow. I'm a bit nervous about that!
Callisto and Edwina seem to be okay and hadn't started molting yet. I just moved them up there last week.
All four have been covered with dishes in the 10 gallon and I'll see how they do. I'm going to have to set up the other 10 gallon as a second molt ISO for the rest of the big guys when they go to molt. (Don't know where I'm going to get a heat lamp, but I'm sure I can figure something out.)
I'm not sure what to do long term. I was just planning on setting up the new 30 as a larger molt ISO, but now I'm not sure. I'm really glad I didn't have my main tank set up with that much substrate!
Is there a trick to keeping a foot of sand or EE from rotting??? I wasn't adding water until the top three inches was completely dry. This really shouldn't have happened.
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