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It usually takes anywhere from 4-8 weeks. The bigger the crab the longer it takes. My hermit crab has been in and out of molting about 5 times. He molts about once a year for a month each time.
So last night i just cleaned their sand and i picked them up to check them (theres 3). One of them was dead and i know because he was brown and no color and he didn't make that clicking noise that he usually made. He was doing just fine ear...
Hello, your hermit crab sounds like he is just grooming himself. If there is powdered food on his legs, he could be trying to get that off. Is that the only foods you offer him? Here's a website that is geared for hermit crabs and their ...
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Some people have had success getting crabs to molt (shed their skin and grow larger) in captivity. Many crabs die when it is time to molt. If kept on the proper substrate, there is a good chance that your crabs will molt for you. The first ...
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well, it doesn't take hermit crabs five months to molt. and if it has passed, then you probably wouldn't be able to smell the odor because of the rock. you need to pick the rock up and see if it has come out of its shell and died. but it se...
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Well, if your hermit crab smells like fish, then she's dead. If not, you need to put whatever you picked out of the 'tat back into it and leave her alone, because she probably is pulling a surface molt. Normally when they molt, they become ...
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Molting crabs need plenty of bedding (enough to bury themselves completely) and humidity. Besides that, they need to be left alone
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Odds are you have got some shell aggression. First, give both a dip in the water dish to dilute the molt hormone smell. Does one seem to be the attacker and the other the attackee? If that is the case then buy several shells that are sim...
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possibly, but most likely no. the outside should crumble/break/crack, allowing it to come out. Another view: Your pet hermit crab should molt under the substrate (sand, or Eco Earth, NOT calci sand, which hardens like a rock when it gets ...
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Out of my first two molters, I had one molt on the warm side, right under where the lamp was, and one molt on the exactly opposite side. I have a molter down now that I think is on the cool side but really can't tell.
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