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Posted	red leg hermits
03-05-2006 01:00 by craig	i added 5 red leg hermits roughly around a week ago one has died but the rest seem to hide alot sometimes i only see one or some times none do they hide alot round back of rocks and in holes
03-05-2006 07:34 by billysfc	Are you sure that it's dead ? Have you got an empty shell ? Hermits regularly shed their exoskeleton as they grow and there is a lot more of it than you might imagine.
03-05-2006 08:18 by craig	yes deffo dead found body also and empty shell
03-05-2006 09:13 by Alan	Hermits will normally appear at night how long did you spend aclimatising the hermits? should spend at least an hour inverts are susceptable to osmotic shock.
03-05-2006 15:10 by craig	spent aound 40 mins aclimatising them like me lfs said to
03-05-2006 17:38 by drummerduck	I have lost one or two hemits and have accepted it as something that may happen.... there was no reason for some of mine to die(2) and the rest to be ok..... it may have been a fight over a larger shell the empty one being the other hermits old shell and unfortunatly the other hermit perished. I have 4 or 5 that have been fine out of 7.
05-05-2006 10:33 by billysfc	Just a thought, how long do our hermits live, and how old might they be when they are collected ? We might be buying animals that are coming to the end of their natural lifespan sometimes.
08-05-2006 08:12 by Alan	Lobsters can live to over 150 so I would imagine hermits and the like have a similar capability but in reality I would expect ten years to be a reasonable lifespan for the wee beasties in captivity. Your comment though are appropriate billysfc when discussing shrimps that normally only have a life span of a couple of years.

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