Blue hermit crab carcass?

[RafaelAtkinsonJr]

Okay so I've had my tank running for about 3 months. Today I found myself looking at another dead blue hermit crab carcass. I bought a blue hermit crab about 2 months ago, just one single crab from the lfs and this is the second time I find this I'm my tank. Does anyone know how this might have happened or what's going on? Very peculiar.
And no other shells in the tank. But the ones I've put which I boiled and placed in the tank.

Dead crab

Original blue crab

Full shot view

 

[Pete polyp]

Could be a molting instead of a dead crab.

 

[BenL]

Ya its a molting mine does the same thing.

 

[RafaelAtkinsonJr]

Really? Okay cool. Didn't know about that.. Lol

 

[RafaelAtkinsonJr]

But looking at it closer I can see eyes and the body part all chewed up. Weird

 

[Pete polyp]

Now that I look closer at it I can tell its not a blue leg hermit.

 

[RafaelAtkinsonJr]

What is it?

 

[eliramos]

nope not a blue leg, i don't know the exact name but those get pretty large i had one that lived in a shell the size of a small fist!

 

[BenL]

Ya I have one that looks like his and have been trying to figure out what kind it is also

 

[BenL]

[h=1]Hermit crab ID Here is my post about my crab. pretty sure we have the same[/h]

 

[RafaelAtkinsonJr]

Ya guess it's not a blue hermit. Lfs sold it to me as a blue hermit. Either way weird seeing the molten or another spontaneous crab appear dead with no shell.. Mystery continues

 

[Mat1018]

Looks to be a thin stripped hermit crab. Easiest way to tell is the stripes on the legs. Then blue hermits will have very distinctive blue legs.

 

[ReefMadScientist]

100% Molt.

My wife freaks out every time our crabs do it. She's always positive its dead crabs.

 

[RafaelAtkinsonJr]

Lol yes very true my wife said the same thing!
Here's one more of Mr. Crabs.
This crab seems peaceful. Hopefully stays that way.