Missing hermits

[Paul B]

I can't find my hermit crabs. I saw them a couple of weeks ago and I re aquascaped a couple of days ago but am not sure if I burried them or if they died of old age. I really don't know how long hermit crabs live but I got this pair as babies almost 13 years ago.

 

[Sasquatch]

Im sure you opened a treasure trove of crap for them to wallow around in, 13 yrs is a pretty old crab lol

 

[Paul B]

Yeah but they were only teenagers, and you know how they are.:wink:

 

[Wy Renegade]

LOL; good to see you over here Paul. You didn't take the beer can out when you rescaped did you? Maybe they are hiding inside it.

 

[Paul B]

The can rotted and I took it out a year or so ago. They can't fit in any of the bottles but they may be shedding somewhere.
Or maybe that is their lifespan

 

[Wy Renegade]

Could be they are molting and simply hiding out. Could be there lifespan. Like you, I don't really know what the lifespan of the average hermit crab is - based on how many most hobbists go through, I would say yours are pretty dang old.

 

[Speg]

I've had one hermit for 9 years. I can't believe you've had them so long..I'd say that's pretty old in hermit crab years :)

 

[Paul B]

Well 9 years is really good also.

Here the male is pushing the female into the bubble coral. She always liked to play hard to get.

 

[Wy Renegade]

Nice shots Paul. Have you IDed the type? the antenna resemble the blues, but the legs are different.

 

[AndyDuckets]

my friends climbed out of his tank and found its way under his fridge. he noticed his dog sniffing the fridge like there was doggy crack underneath it,

 

[Paul B]

I used to know the species but I have long forgotten and am too lazy to look it up.

 

[Wy Renegade]

Lol ^

 

[Speg]

Is it not a halloween hermit from the Marshall Islands?

 

[clowns101]

13 years!WOW,I cant keep my crabs past a year!I have to order bulk amounts of them,same thing with snails,I order about $100 of them...LOL,

 

[Paul B]

Thats wierd, whatever I put in my tank usually gets too big and I have to give it away. Even the extreamly common mud snails I collect here in tide pools seem to live forever. But I do lose some of the smaller hermit crabs. When I got this pair I also got 5 others with them, they stayed much smaller and disapeared one by one over those years. I just picked up 5 of them today, I will have to see how long they live. This batch seems kind of stupid and slow. I doubt they wil last long. The ones that I lost were much faster and they knew how to text.

 

[jordan3548]

Are there bigger holes in the rock that they coulda been hiding in and when you reaquascaped they could have been trapped?

 

[Paul B]

They could be moulting but I doubt it. I think they are at the end of their lifespan but I do hope they show up. It's hard to find anything in my tank.