I was curious to know if the “scent” of a molting crab can cause a chain reaction. I ask bc all 5 of my crabs are down and they all went down within 1-3 weeks of each other. Does that hormone release trigger the others to want to molt too?
This is my first experience with molting and of course, I’m worried about them, haha. I can see one of them on the bottom of the tank (through his window) and he seems to be ok. 3 of them have molted successfully with the lady I adopted them from, but my other 2 came from a pet store and not sure of their molting backgrounds. One of the 2 from the pet store got lots of food and water before he went under, but my girl Hermione didn’t and prior to her going under, she mostly just sat there behind my coconut fiber climbing wall. All I could manage was to stuff some moistened moss into a tube of shedded snake skin, rubbed with a tiny bit of honey and drop it back there where she was...just not sure if that was enough for a successful molt.
They are all varying sizes of medium PP and in a 40g breeder with 6” of moistened 5:1 sand:ee substrate. There are tunnels everywhere in my tank (drives my OCD crazy) and I know not to mess with them. Still putting food out every 3 days and watching my Wyze Cam night vision, but there’s never any movement. Someone once told me that there is rarely conflict underground and I guess I’m just wanting a little confirmation on that...and any thoughts on my store bought crabs with it being their first molt with me.
What do y’all think? Any and all comments/thoughts welcome! Thank you
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