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by creativeusername
Sat Feb 07, 2015 8:28 pm
Forum: Emergency
Topic: Hermit crab will not come out of shell even during bath
Replies: 4
Views: 1267

Re: Hermit crab will not come out of shell even during bath

Would the mold have caused any of it? Our hermits are rarely ever handled except when we need to move them or the rare bath occasions like today. I'm confused why didn't move during the bath unless it was because we scrubbed the mold off his shell. I'm just worried he has molded walnut food poisonin...
by creativeusername
Sat Feb 07, 2015 8:12 pm
Forum: Emergency
Topic: Hermit crab will not come out of shell even during bath
Replies: 4
Views: 1267

Hermit crab will not come out of shell even during bath

We were going to take two of our crabs out of isolation and put them back in the bigger clean tank. Upon our weekly rounds of spot cleaning food out of tank and checking on crabs we discovered one of the crabs near a piece of molded food as well as mold on the outside of his shell. We dumped the pla...