Hello,
I am a new hermit crab owner. The bigger one, Fred, I got first. He is very active and very friendly. About a week later I got another, Maple, she is smaller. They seemed to have got along well when I was introducing them. When I woke up the other morning Maple had lost a leg. I was nervous. Then I noticed that she started turning white on her legs. Also she is keeping one leg out when she goes into her shell. Now I am noticing that Fred is slowly turning white. Do you know what this is? I would appreciate any advise you can give me.
Thanks
2007-08-30 12:41:11 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
just means that he muting.or whatever its called. BUT it basically means that he sheddig.uhmm..if hermets crap do that. HAHA! whateverrrrr I DONT KNO!!!! hahaa
i tried.
2007-08-30 12:47:07 · answer #1 · answered by ZOZER! 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋
White Leg Hermit Crab
2016-11-04 00:58:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hermit crabs sometimes loose limbs it happens. Could of been a fight no one will ever know. The turning white could be molting which means he is growing and loosing his skin so to speak. Now once he looses his skin his new skin is very soft and needs time to get hard. So he eats his old skin while his new skin gets hard. Then after a week or two he is back to normal and back on the run. He needs to be left alone durning this time molting is very stressfull on a hermit crab and sometimes they die during the process. Read as much as you can about molting on the web ....
2007-08-30 13:14:01 · answer #3 · answered by Thia 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Pam Clevenger, we can home our hermit crab is out of it's shell and white. Is it dead.
2015-02-26 04:51:13 · answer #4 · answered by pamela S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a leg falls off, that's definately not shedding. Sounds like you have the crab version of lepracy, and I suggest quarantining them from any other crabs. If they were originally green, they're a special variety of hermit crabs that need some salt water to drink (they didn't tell me that at the store, which eventually led to the death of my green one)
2007-08-30 12:51:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means that a molt is coming up.
2014-10-01 01:49:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please check this website for complete info....losing legs is very bad.
http://www.hermit-crabs.com/index.html
2007-08-30 14:09:49 · answer #7 · answered by KimbeeJ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋