scarlet hermit having babies?

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one of my larger scarlets has been in the corner for 3 days it buried its self atleast almost all of itself. anyways today i thought it might be dead so i picked it up. but it was alive, so i set him back down about 9 inches from where he was. when i came back about 5 mins later he was back in the corner and had buried himself again?

 

[jakob4001]

probably not...all crustacians,crabs included of course, have an exoskelton on the outside of thier bodies...in order to grow, they must shed it from time to time...sometimes they will find a safe place to do this or bury themselves...you may end up finding an empty husk at some point thinking it died, but it probably only shed & most likely will hide out for at least a few days or so unstil it's exoskeleton has hardened again...it would be best if you have small hermit crabs, to provide them w/ relative size empty shells to chose from & to grow in...you can purchase them cheaply from here w/ the UBUILDIT package...