Successful first molt! Welcome back Renegade!

renegade29 · Post by **renegade29** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 12:17 am

Great news, Renegade returned last night from his molt! I was so happy to come home from work and see him in there. He looks bigger and his color looks great, so much darker. So yay!!

crazycrabber · Post by **crazycrabber** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 6:29 am

congrats, big time! That is something i still have to achieve, as you now know, i am now 0-1 with molting, but i am pretty sure it would have been successful if it weren't for him being eaten. But good job, a color that stays dark means that a hermit crab was fed a lot of carotene enriched foods and calcium before and after. Did you let him eat his old skin that he molted? It helps with calcium supplement right after a molt.

renegade29 · Post by **renegade29** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 6:45 am

Yes I did let him eat it. I also keep a dish of calcium supplement powder for them in the crabitat.

renegade29 · Post by **renegade29** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 7:05 am

But thanks for the congrats! And I'm sure it will go better for you next time.

jenok · Post by **jenok** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 7:34 am

Awesome! Great job.