This morning i woke up to a scuffle in my hermit crab tank. It seemed that they were in a fight of some sorts. The larger of the two, Noodle, had buried itself in the sand over a week ago. Im pretty sure this is normal crab behavior when they are about to shed their skin. So anyways, Kiwi, the smaller one, seemed to have dug Noodle out of its hole and it looke like it was trying to pull a very pink and sad-looking Noodle from its shell. I immediately reached in and pulled Kiwi out of the tank and had my mom keep an eye on him. Then i got a few pictures and a video recording of Noodle walking around the tank without a shell, and i was worried, so i put new food and water in there as well (the banana slices i left in there a few nights ago were now brown and squishy, and the water had evaporated overnight because it is in the triple digits here and we currently don't have air conditioning). I pulled the old exoskeleton out of the sand, scooted the bigger shell closer to Noodle, and watched it crawl in. I left it alone and came back a little while later and it hadnt moved from that spot, so i picked it up to see if i could get it to come out of its new shell... And its claw fell off. Not the exoskeletal claw. Not just the bottom "thumb" piece. Not even just the claw mechanism. The entire arm containing the main claw. Just fell off. I have no idea what to do. I read somewhere that they re-grow limbs when they shed their skin... But im not sure this can be fixed. Please help? I may put up pics here later if requested.
user
Hermit crab lost its claw, I think, right after it shed its skin, but it may have
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This morning i woke up to a scuffle in my hermit crab tank. It seemed that they were in a fight of some sorts. The larger of the two, Noodle, had buried itself in the sand over a week ago. Im pretty sure this is normal crab behavior when they are about to shed their skin. So anyways, Kiwi, the smaller one, seemed to have dug Noodle out of its hole and it looke like it was trying to pull a very pink and sad-looking Noodle from its shell. I immediately reached in and pulled Kiwi out of the tank and had my mom keep an eye on him. Then i got a few pictures and a video recording of Noodle walking around the tank without a shell, and i was worried, so i put new food and water in there as well (the banana slices i left in there a few nights ago were now brown and squishy, and the water had evaporated overnight because it is in the triple digits here and we currently don't have air conditioning). I pulled the old exoskeleton out of the sand, scooted the bigger shell closer to Noodle, and watched it crawl in. I left it alone and came back a little while later and it hadnt moved from that spot, so i picked it up to see if i could get it to come out of its new shell... And its claw fell off. Not the exoskeletal claw. Not just the bottom "thumb" piece. Not even just the claw mechanism. The entire arm containing the main claw. Just fell off. I have no idea what to do. I read somewhere that they re-grow limbs when they shed their skin... But im not sure this can be fixed. Please help? I may put up pics here later if requested.
user
hermit crabs were fighting, bigger one lost its main claw arm shortly after shedding its skin. What
assistant