Surprise Houdini the Cavipe Hermit Crab Molted!
This is Houdini, one of my Cavipe hermit crabs, on September 12, 2005. I have had him since January 14, 2005 and he hadn’t molted. He had been rather lethargic and his coloring was very ashy. Last night I was checking out the 55 gallon crabitat and I saw Houdini and he had molted! You can see in the above picture that he didn’t fit in his shell, but now he is considerably smaller.
You can see in the above photo that he now easily fits into his shell, it’s amazing how much he shrunk. You can also see that his coloring is much more vibrant and he has very sharp nails.
It looks like he lost his left walking leg during molt, but other than that he seems to be fine. He was out playing with the ruggies last night.
