Hermit crabs what is molting

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Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Featured Video. Related Topics. Small Pets. You may notice after they molt they come up to eat and drink to gain strength and then enlarge themselves and harden to their new shell.

Still do not touch. They need to be left alone. This is a good time to have vitamins or calcium in their cage near where they are molting. This will make their outer skeletons very hard. Ground up egg shells mixed in their food will help them with their extra calcium needs if you do not have vitamins which is sea fan. Be sure to have a dish of water in their cage that they can get into if they want. They need a lot of water during this time.

Hermits being primarily a marine animal still in the process of evolution are a crustacean. They differ from a crab, as we know crabs because of their long spiral inner body similar to shells mollusks. They all occupy empty shells of Gastropods. They are know are marine scavengers. They eat just about anything old or fresh. They love all junk food, vegetable, fruits and just anything you like. Be aware these changes in behavior and appearance that signal that your hermit crab is getting ready to molt:.

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