What can kill a scarlet hermit (no predation)

[Patx]

What can kill a hermit crab?
I introduced a scarlet 13 days ago.
As well as cerith, nerith and feather duster.

I let the bag float for the temperature, the s.g. of the bag/LFS was the same.
I put it on a rock. It moved etc...
but it had been motionless for 2-3 days now.

So, I lifted it and its body slid out of its shell.

I don't understand the problem.
My last scarlet lived 11 years.

The water is pretty stable, all the inhabitants are fine, Snail, cleaner shrimp etc...
I did a tank transfer last month. Everything went well.

Thing just happen ?
Should i investigate something special?

 

[Lavey29]

Maybe he left the shell for another shell

 

[Patx]

Maybe he left the shell for another shell

I wish it could be a molt etc...

But think you miss the part :
"So, I lifted it and its body slid out of its shell" :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:
I could eat him for dinner.

 

[Patx]

Oh my this little f#%*er!

 

[Patx]

I keep the shell and throw it in my refugium...
I just saw the shell move

I can see his eyes...

Ok so the molt was in the shell and he was behind it.
Wow lol

 

[Patx]

@Lavey29 and scarlet : 1 me: 0

there is a first time for everything... :grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes:

 

[Lavey29]

@Lavey29 and scarlet : 1 me: 0

there is a first time for everything... :grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes:

Hermits are like cockroaches. It's hard to kill them little dudes off.

 

[Patx]

Hermits are like cockroaches. It's hard to kill them little dudes off.

Yeah.

I'm used to seeing different molts flying into the flow.
but not falling directly out.

I thought they molted outside their shells and then returned to them.

 

[Lavey29]

Yeah.

I'm used to seeing different molts flying into the flow.
but not falling directly out.

I thought they molted outside their shells and then returned to them.

Crabs are vulnerable when they molt so probably why they do it inside their house.

 

[Patx]

Crabs are vulnerable when they molt so probably why they do it inside their house.

good point,
if i were a crab, that's what i would do.
but i would trow my old skin out !
although it is a good lure. indeed.

I won't get fooled again... probably. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

 

[ReefSymbiotic]

Better question is what do you have in your tank? They can have a bad Molt or something got to it during its molt.

 

[BryanM]

I have hermits in oversized nassarius snail shells.... I often see the shell moving and go "That doesn't look right"... And its not. Rude.

 

[Patx]

Better question is what do you have in your tank? They can have a bad Molt or something got to it during its molt.

Royal gramma, *wrass H. leucoxanthus*, firefish,
pajama cardinal, tailspot blenny and diamond goby.
No other hermits/crab in tank

It would be surprising if it molted and then returned to its shell under the molt. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

Maybe, it finished molting inside after being disturbed. (Like you say)

But idk, is very likely that they molt inside their shell. Seem logic :thinking-face:

 

[braaap]

It’s a hermit. Who cares.

 

[Patx]

It’s a hermit. Who cares.

:grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes:
I need one...