HCA: Hermit Crab Association

My hermit crab, General passed away. He is a strawberry hermit crab and went down molting last month (his third time molting). I am figuring out the reason of his death as he wasn't disturbed during molting. I found that his shell has abnormal white dots, a circle bite mark and a broken hole. Is thi...

The substrate is 3 times the height of my hermit crab and we sprayed water every day. So, it should be moist enough. Does hermit crab like living alone or in groups? Because the 2 hermit crabs are put in the same tank now and one of them starting digging soil. Is it for fun or he doesn't like the en...

I have two strawberry hermit crab, General and Kani. General started digging 2 weeks after he arrived and buried himself inside coconut soil 4 days after Kani arrived. We thought he was molting, so we didn't disturb him , but we heard sound from time to time, so that we were sure he was alive. There...

My hermit crab has buried himself on 21/4 and came out today. We thought he was molting because he dug hole a lot before burying, but it seems he didnt molt. His skin color is same as before. Any reason to explain why he buried himself for nearly a month? My another hermit crab buried himself into s...

Thanks so much! The substrate should be deep enough and I spray the substrate every day, so it should be moist enough too. He keeps digging in the corners. Just want to ask one more question: my hermit crab is about the size of tennis-ball, I have read some readings saying that this large size hermi...

My crab has been like this for few hours.

It is my first time seeing his eyes pointing downwards.

Is he molting, sleeping or dead?

He ate last night (probably 6-8hrs ago) and kept digging hole for a week. Is it possible he is just molting?

https://imgur.com/RQ7RPvw