Hermit crab digging after molt very unusual for crab
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2019 2:44 pm
So this going to be very long and slightly confusing. So back when the hurricane hit Florida we evacuated and of course I brought my crabbies. I will have a pick of their travel habitat down below. So they were in that for about a week or slightly less.(I have a really bad memory) So when we got back I waited about half a day to put the crabs back into their tank so I wasn't handling them right after a car ride. So I Hermy(my female pp) in the tank first,but I had to wait longer to put Dory(my male pp) because was holding on to the top and I didn't want to stress him out so I waited two days and he finally got off. So my hermit crabs never dig unless they are going to molt,and out of almost three years I have had them they have never molted at the same time. So they both start digging when I added Dory in. I was thought it was stress from the trip and they were distressing. Well after a week of them digging Dory goes down first and then couple days later Hermy goes down. I thought they both passed or they ate each other or something bad had happened. So I waited a month and about a week and Dory comes up, and I am super happy Dory is alive but I thought he ate Hermy or Hermy was stuck(Hermy is probably the only hermit crab in the world who has a hard time digging). So I waited a couple days and no Hermy. The only didn't ask for advice sooner is because I had zero free time. So I decided to look for Hermy's body or help Hermy. I found a shell and I flip it up to see a pale body,but an alive pale body. I immediately knew I messed up and so I separated my crabs I put a leaf over Hermy's hole to make it dark and waited. I did have to do the bottle method where you cover the crab so other crabs can't eat them because I didn't have the best heat source for Dory in the travel tank and was to cold so I moved Dory back into the tank. So three days after Dory goes into the tank Hermy pops out of the hole ready for freedom with a harden exoskeleton. So I removed the bottle a little bit after Hermy came up and Dory had to sit on top of Hermy twice little dinkledorf. So after the second of moving Dory off of Hermy I give Hermy a little nudge to encourage Hermy to move but then I realized Hermy was actually stuck in the sand some how. I free Hermy and Hermy explores and them buries in their hey pit. They act normal for a few days but now Hermy dug down last night and I am worried about Hermy because they NEVER dig unless they molt so I need help. Thank for reading that and any advice is appreciated! Btw usually there isn't hay everywhere but they decided to dump their hay pit.
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