It will usually be molting for a month or two. It's important that you try to leave your crab alone when it's molting.
They have fur or hair.
The two types are ~ Vellus which is the soft hair that covers most of the body, and the Terminal which is the coarser hair on the head, eyes, pubic and axillary regions.
Adults of two kinds of hair: vellus and terminal. Vellus hair is short, fine, soft, and nonpigmented. Terminal hair is coarser, longer, thicker, and usually pigmented.
The molting lava started flowing from the volcano. This is an example to the word molting.
molting: to shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically
The word molting, aka: a dog is molting, this is pronounced like mole-ting.
You get angora wool off of the rabbit by plucking the hair or cutting the hair off with a pair of scissors when it molts. The molting is part of natural growth.
The two main types of hair growth are terminal hair and vellus hair. Terminal hair is thick, dark, and typically found on the scalp, face, and body after puberty, whereas vellus hair is fine, soft, and lightly pigmented, covering most of the body. The transition from vellus to terminal hair is influenced by hormonal changes, particularly during puberty.
when an animal sheds they are usually getting rid of hair. this is not something they control, similar to how you or i lose hair. strands simply fall out. molting is the manner in which an animal routinely casts off a part of its body (often but not always an outer layer or covering), either at specific times of year, or at specific points in its life-cycle. some insects lose their wings for another example, or a snake which molts its skin. also molting can include shedding as a animal can lose their hair or dead skin cells.
Replacing its feathers
That is the correct spelling of "molting" (also moulting).