Hermit Crabs

They say that a drop from about 3 feet can kill your hermit crab. If you dropped your hermit crab the first thing you should do is see if it's dead. It's body will look droopy and a dead hermit crab can start to smell like rotten fish. If your crab happeneds to still be alive but it's she'll is completely crAcked then gently scoop it up and put it into its cage with a bunch of shell options so they can pick a new shell.

Answer: It is eaten by the shedder for calcium to harden the new shell. The parts that remain (if uneaten) are quickly moved away from the lobsters' burrow so as NOT to attract predators. Other sea creatures will quickly consume shedded lobster shells, so you will never find a shedded lobster exoskelaton on the beach.

No, they don't unless there is a problem and your hermit crab has chosen to surface molt. In that case, he needs darkness and the best thing to do is give him a hidey such as a cocohut or other shelter so he can keep himself in darkness. Never ever disturb a molting hermit crab if it can be avoided. if a crab does surface molt, it is vital that you section him off from any other crabs you may have. This includes keeping them from being able to dig down under a barricade, as a molting crab gives off a very enticing smell (which is not an issue when they bury to molt) which may attract other hungry hermit crabs who will steal the shed exoskeleton of the molting crab who needs to eat it to regain strength. The newly molted hermit crab is also extremely soft and vulnerable, and could also become a target of another hungry hermit crab.

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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 wet and dries, never use as a substrate. put in their food dish instead). There are occasions when the hermit crab will surface molt, but this is not normal. Most often there is not appropriate substrate available (as in having only gravel, which is NOT hermit crab friendly, they need sand) or the crab is unduly stressed. There are some videos of hermit crabs surface molting on YouTube, if you are curious, do a search and watch those.

A hermit crab should never be disturbed when it is molting, never ever dig up a burrowed hermit crab. Molting can take a couple of weeks up to several months. Just keep the tank temperature and humidity in proper hermit crab ranges, change out the food and water dishes regularly, and leave them alone. They need darkness to trigger the molting hormone. Molting is their most fragile time, and they can easily die if stressed or disturbed too much during molting.

For more info, visit http://www.hermit-crabs.com or http://www.hermitcrabparadise.com and click on the care sheets link, and scroll down to molting.

Hermit Crab Food. You can buy it at pet stores. They also like fruits and veggies, in very tiny amounts (it goes bad quickly because they barely eat anything). I've also fed mine tropical fish food from time to time.

Because lobsters are saltwater creatures, not freshwater creatures. There are three groups of aquatic animals: those that live exclusively in freshwater (freshwater species), those that live exclusively in saltwater (saltware species) and those that live in somewhat salty freshwater bodies.

it is trying to get out of the shell but it cant

the hermit crab will either eat or use an empty snail shell that would then be abandoned. all thx to mrs. perrins enviormental science class :)

Answer - Commensalistic .

It's likely... also if you hold it up and gently wiggle it, and it's loose or it falls out of the shell, maybe, but try leaving it in the cage more cause it might be molting(shedding).

It depends on how many hermit crabs you are getting. It needs enough space for a food and water bowl, a small toy, and atleast five feet of free crawl space. You also need two or three shells for when it gets bigger as it ages and grows.

No, hermit crab mites are specific to hermit crabs and will not harm you or your pets.

hermit crabs never actually live with their parents. the female carries the eggs until they are ready to hatch and then cast them off into the sea. they hatch in the water and live as free floating plankton for a while, before getting on land and finding a shell, quite possibly nowhere near their parents.

No, unfortunately they can't... Hermit crabs lay their eggs in the ocean, they are born without shells, and eat plankton. If you have a very large aquarium, and can manage to make a mini-saltwater ocean inside as well as dry land, it could be possible... Remember that the ocean must have a proper amount of salt! (table salt is harmful to hermit crabs too...)

The conditions may not be right for the crab.

Make sure the humidity levels are at 70-80% and that the heat is at about 75-80 degrees.

Sometimes though crabs will stay in there shells for a long time to de-stress from being moved from the pet store to your house. Some crabs take months to de-stress and other only take a day or two. Your crab may also come out at night while you're not around.

its brenda the hermit crab i own it it was so expensive

Hermit crabs are scavengers and will eat anything. You can feed them any veggie as long as it's organic.

Hermit crabs can eat all fruits and veggies, sea salted nuts, egg shells, egg yolk, egg whites, even lean (not fatty) meats.

Stay AWAY from human food like twinkies and seasoned foods, it has harmful ingredients to the hermies.

Try to handle your crabs as often as you can. Let them walk on the palm of your hand, make your hand flat and stretch out your hand, so no excess skin is there for the crab to picnch on if he gets scared.

Play with your crab, let them walk around on your bedroom floor, but watch them carefully. You can also hand feed your hermit crab, if you want to buy the kit, it is at

thehermitcrabpatch.com (:

well you will have to really do nothing a crab dosent die from simple things in the wild its just a part of nature.

In the wild hermit crabs are scavengers, so whenever they can! In captivity mine eat every night as soon as I cut the lights. Hermit crabs, like most other sea creatures, spend most of their day constantly foraging for food. They don't have set mealtimes.

The horseshoe crab habitat is shallow coastal waters with soft sandy or muddy bottoms; occasionally they come ashore to mate. Geographically they can be found in locations including the east coast of North America, Japan, and Thailand.

Well, if crabs have big enough tanks they are fine for a while but if not you can let them crawl on clean, safe, low surfaces and some even clamp to the tips of your fingure! Anything safe will do, they're shells arren't the strongest so be sure that it's safe. Let them crawl on your hands and what not. I own 5 hermit's of my own X) Good luck!

They are crabs. They are known as ghost crabs because some have transparent bodies, while others, like the Atlantic ghost crab are yellowish. They can scuttle around at about 10 mph, thus making them run away so fast it seems as if they disappear like a ghost.

No. Only vertebrates have spines. Crabs are invertebrates.

By itself maybe 1 year. But with friends they can live up to 15 years but there was one woman who raised her hermit crabs for over 30 years

They drink water but NOT tap water. it have chlorne in it that burns the hermit crabs gills. give them distilled or spring water. they also need a salt water dish, so that can bath in it, the salt heals them. Never use table salt. use Sea Salt instead. :)