#8xnnyyaps

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literally no one cares but I wanna share it bc my marine loving autistic ass is excited(and possibly sad, no clue)

One of my hermit crabs is molting and it’s so cool, now I have one of its molted claws, and 4 of its legs in a lil baggie and it’s genuinely the coolest thing ever. at first I thought the crabs had gotten into a fight, and one had lost its legs, a claw and left its shell, but after watching them for a bit longer and moving around the tank to look at it from different angles, both of them still had all their legs and looked to be perfectly fine.

I’m a little worried because the crab (obv) left its shell to molt and I couldn’t find an exact time period of how long they can live without a shell on, but it seems to be fine for right now. It’s still (actively) in the process of molting so I’m sure it won’t be in its shell for a little bit. If it doesn’t seem like it’s getting in it’s shell after a while I’ll try and manually put it in its shell, or at the very least encourage it, but for right now I’m gonna let it do it’s thing.

You can even see and FEEL hair on the molts