HCA: Hermit Crab Association

so zeta maybe a month ago, burrowed down right beside the glass. I didn't want to scare him or for the light to bother him while he was molting so I put a piece of paper over his burrow. Today, when I came home, the paper had fallen down so I inspected zeta's progress to see him lying out of his shell in the sand burrow he dug. I looked into his shell to see if that was merely his exo and he was residing within his shell but his shell is completely empty. I'm not sure how long he's been like this but I have no idea on what to do.


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I can't see really well from the photo. Is he moving at all?

curlysister wrote:I can't see really well from the photo. Is he moving at all?

he isn't moving at all, he's naked out of his shell lying in his side, also he is quite pale


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Any change?

It's possible that your crab is molting, and that is his exoskeleton that he shed. He will eat that, and climb back up when he's done. The whole molting process varies from crab to crab, but sometimes it takes them a couple of months. Try to be patient.

GotButterflies wrote:It's possible that your crab is molting, and that is his exoskeleton that he shed. He will eat that, and climb back up when he's done. The whole molting process varies from crab to crab, but sometimes it takes them a couple of months. Try to be patient.

I never saw this message and I just dug him up, I found that he wasn't Zeta, but he was Nu. From the stench he was giving off I could surmise that he was deceased.


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