MURDER!!

fortheloveofcrabs · #1 04-23-2004, 05:16 AM

Has anyone experienced this: I have blue hermits, and I woke up this morning and saw one dead in my tank! Ahh! It was just the poor little guy, no shell. His 'front' was intact, but his back (the part that was in the shell) was gone! It is no where to be found, no was the shell! Any ideas what happened to the little guy? There are extra shells around, so no one would have wanted it, so I do not really know what happened to him.

Thanks!

Aquattro · #2 04-23-2004, 05:40 AM

the little guy molted and left his old shell around for you to find. He got back in his shell went along his merry way.

kuatto · #3 04-23-2004, 02:46 PM

Mine do it all the time(looks like dead bodies everywhere)

rodsboys · #4 04-23-2004, 03:03 PM

That freeked me out the first time I experienced it too.LOL

Skimmerking · #5 04-23-2004, 03:32 PM

ya it happened to me too, I had this huge crab it was a awesome looking one too and i saw it's body dead on the front of the tank.

but then i saw it again crawling around the front of the rocks in the tank.

But ya they do molt

pretty neat to see.

mike

PrairieReefer · #6 04-24-2004, 06:48 AM

First time I saw it was with a fairly large Sally Light Foot. The entire molt was just sitting still on the sand bed. I thought he just wasn't moving. Then I saw a second one up on the rocks. Took me quite a while to figure out how I got 2 of them in the tank.