Naked Indo Hermit Crab
I’ve had my Indo Gomez for three months. He’s pretty unsocial, prefers to spend his time alone in the vines. The last week and a half he has been spending a lot of time in the salt water pool. It started with him taking extended dips. Then he would sit for long periods of time in the salt water and extend way out of his shell.
I left town for a couple of days and came home to him naked in the salt water pool; I thought he was dead, but he moved when I opened the tank. He climbed on the coral in the pool, so I gently moved him, the coral, and his shell to the shell changing area. He reshelled quickly and went back down by the pool. Back in the pool he went and within a few minutes he was naked again. I started preparing ISO and when I returned to the tank he was still naked and one of my ruggies was checking him out. I gently scooped him up on a clam shell with his shell and put him in ISO. Within minutes he was back in his shell. Crazy crab.
I’ve read a lot of posts on naked Indos and none of them sounded very good. My temp and humidity in my main tank is 78-80. I’ve read some posts that Indos prefer cooler temps, so I’ve got the ISO around 73 with the humidity at 78 ISO. I put some mango, organic honey, and coconut in with him and he was on the food dish eating (I hardly ever see him eat). I’m hoping he’s going to molt, but I don’t know, while he was naked I looked for a molt sac, but didn’t see any. I’m going to keep the tank on the cooler side to see if he improves. I’m also thinking that I might get some forest bedding for him.
