New hermie not responding
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 9:27 pm
Hey guys! I already posted this in another feed here but thought maybe it would be more appropriate as an emergency. So I already have an established colony of 4 hermies for over a year and possibly 2 years now (I’ve lost count), all have molted numerous times. Went out to Petsmart this evening because I had just found out that I had run out of Instant Ocean to change out my crab pools and of course they just got a new shipment of little hermies in (6 brought in today). So I picked 3 - all seemed active at the time. The smallest not as active as the other 2 but hid in his shell when we went to pick him up. We brought them all home and gave them a dip in the FW pool. All but 1 climbed out. This little guy didn’t budge for over an hour.

I picked him back up, he is completely flaccid and non responsive. I played with his pinchers and got nothing. I wasn’t quite sure what to do so I went ahead an made him a little iso with a Tupperware I had that could fit in my tank. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Inside the Tupperware is a some sub from the main tank, a shell with FW and another with organic raw honey.

Tank specifications:
55g with 20g long tall topper
Sub is mixed with play sand and EE 50-50 and about 13 inches deep.
FW with Seachem Prime
MSW with Instant Ocean
Hygrometer / thermometer is digital
Humidity at 97%
Temp at 80 deg
No other changes to tank and no pesticides or chemical exposures.
Foods : all organic fresh foods and also dried foods (proteins, veggies, flowers) from hermies kitchen, crabotanicals, and claw of the wild.
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I picked him back up, he is completely flaccid and non responsive. I played with his pinchers and got nothing. I wasn’t quite sure what to do so I went ahead an made him a little iso with a Tupperware I had that could fit in my tank. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Inside the Tupperware is a some sub from the main tank, a shell with FW and another with organic raw honey.

Tank specifications:
55g with 20g long tall topper
Sub is mixed with play sand and EE 50-50 and about 13 inches deep.
FW with Seachem Prime
MSW with Instant Ocean
Hygrometer / thermometer is digital
Humidity at 97%
Temp at 80 deg
No other changes to tank and no pesticides or chemical exposures.
Foods : all organic fresh foods and also dried foods (proteins, veggies, flowers) from hermies kitchen, crabotanicals, and claw of the wild.
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