HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Hi, I am pretty new to crabbing but I am fairly certain that one of my hermies just molted. She had all of the signs of it coming and went down for 32 days which is about the perfect amount of time for her size. She came up quite different looking, larger with very distinct black leg tips and extremely hairy. Anyways, she was in ISO but there is NO exo to be found?! I have never heard of them eating EVERYTHING & it's gone. Did she eat all of it Or did she not molt???

If you dig through you may see a part of the limb in the general vicinity of where they moulted. However they do and will eat the entire exo, if its their first moult they probably missing a lot of key and vital minerals and vitamins, which the exo is full of. (Recycling at its finest!)

Thanks, yeah I searched really thoroughly and can't find anything but I have had her since the beginning of June and this is her first molt. Up until about 5 weeks ago I had never even heard of that word. I decided it might be time to look into getting them some shells and started Googling. I was mortified what the pet store in Virginia Beach had told me to do in order to take care of them. They had been living in a little wire cage on Little Rock Pebbles and sprinkles of sand being sprayed with tap water and only a wet sponge to drink off of and a cap full of hermit crab food. Long story short twenty-four hours later and a few hundred dollars later 3 Crabs had changed shells two crabs went down immediately one of which is or was super tiny and was down two weeks and came up great happy and healthy but we found a little bit of remains of his exoskeleton. And then the Crab that I was talking about in this post is the second Little Crab that went down and she was down like 31 days and my third crab went down 12 days ago. She's a medium so I assume I won't see her for a while. But how they all three did so well I will never know. I can't believe that they survived that time with me during my naivety. And they seem extremely healthy with great little appetite and doing all the things that I read about all the other little crabs doing

Congrats on ur successful molts!!! Out of my five hermies, I have only found 1 BP exo and that was from transferring sub to new tat (all hermies were above sub at the time).


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Crabobsessed, you're in good company - a LOT of people start out that way. And isn't it vexing to have spent a bunch on the wrong equipment?
It drives me mad.

But yay for happy endings! Awesome work!

Congrats on the successful molts!