not a hitchhiker but crazy!

TLKAg87 · Aug 30, 2018

I bought some hermits in early July, including an electric blue leg. After about a week in the tank, he molted. We thought he had died (I am a noob). Today he showed up on a rock without a shell!!!!

Reeferdood · Aug 30, 2018

He is looking for a new home & needs to find one quickly, he is very vulnerable right now to predators

TLKAg87 · Aug 30, 2018

Reeferdood said:
He is looking for a new home & needs to find one quickly, he is very vulnerable right now to predators

We put some shells up on the rock he is on. Hopefully, he will choose one. In terms of livestock, all we have in there now is a clownfish, blenny, brittle star and some other crabs and snails. I assume he has been without a shell since mid July.

For other newbies out there, if your hermit looks dead or see some body parts laying around; just leave it there. I made the mistake of moving the shell during the molt. I figured I had killed it. Oh ye of little faith. We have changed his name to Lazarus.