Hi there, I'm still kind of new to hermit crabs. My brother adopted 2 hermit crabs for me as my Christmas gift, after two days I found out 1 had been dead, so I went back to petsmart and was able to adopt a new one. Its now been a little more than a month and my two girls Sage and Petal have been doing fine. They live in a 10 gallon tank, substrates about 4 inches, I use just EE but I've been trying to save up for a bag of (Quikrete) sand. The humidity stays up fairly well. They have two little hides, two water dishes, salt and fresh water. Anywhooooo, sorry for rambling. My smaller hermie, Petal, buried herself in the EE substrate on Feb 3. I haven't seen her since. At first I thought I lost her but when I found her (no I didn't pull her out, just felt for her little shell) I left her there and buried her back up. Its been about 5 days and there's no fishy smell (thank goodness). But i'm just wondering if this could be her molting or destressing? Although i doubt its destressing bc they both did that when I first got them and after that they were walking about and everything.
BTW: Yes I did a whole lot of research before they were given to me, so I'm aware of how they need to be taken care of and stuff. Just want to get other people's opinion as to what they think she might be doing. Thanks to anyone in advance who might respond!
