I know alot about hermit crabs but have never had experience with molting ones before, so I have a question because I don't want to end up killing my hermit crab. My hermit, Otto, just molted. I found his "lovely" Exo-skeleton yesterday, and to be honest at first I thought he was dead and was quite sad. But when I looked in the shell I saw him and he was fine. My question is how long does it usually take the skeleton to harden? I want to take him out but I don't want him loosing any legs like his last leg, which grew back YAY! He's walking around but I just want to be sure. I couldn't find much on the internet as all the site say something different.