Is My Hermit Crab Asleep or Just Dead?

Thought hermit crab was dead then there was a new one?

  • Ok I was cleaning the hermit crab tank and my favorite one was sticking half way out of the shell, when I realized it was dead (because legs, big claw, head, etc all fell out of the shell I noticed that part was still stuck to the shell so I submerged the shell in hot water the piece came out and so did another hermit crab, I'm afraid I might have killed the other crab I put it in salt water bath right away and put some stress medicine in the water, but anyways while I'm waiting to see what happens with this crab where did he come from is it possible it was a baby and it killed it's mother and pushed her out? Or is the molting process? It didn't look like a crab skin it was definately the whole crab.

  • Answer:

    i think it was a baby

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Your crab did not have a baby, it molted. You threw out the old exoskeleton, thinking it was the crab, which was actually hiding in the shell.

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