Do I have to ISO?

Questions about hermit crabs moulting and its symptoms.
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Do I have to ISO?

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I woke up this morning with Greg buried (I think lol). Well there's a dug up messy part in the corner, but I dont want to disturb him at all.

I do have a smaller terrarium tank that can be used as an ISO, but I have a 54 litre tank (about 14 gallons or so) and only my 2 medium sized boys in there. Gordy is just resting under the palm trees as usual, and i'm keeping a close eye on him, just to make sure he doesn't go anywhere near Greg. I don't want to dig Greg up and stress him out, so i'd much prefer to leave him. Is that fine?
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you can section him off if you feel better. i have one down molting right now and i didn't catch him and the other 11 crabs have no idea where he is.
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Lol nice. I think Gorden is a little lonely, but i'm thinking i'll wait until Greg surfaces before I get any more hermies, just in case THEY decide to dig him up lol. I might get some pieces of plastic and section him off if it looks like Gordy will annoy him. Makes it easier that Greg buried down in a corner lol
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I have 2 molters in my main tank and 1 in my traveling one... I put barriers around all of them.
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I ended up putting a barrier around Greg, becaus Gordy wandered over there and looked like he was going to dig. But then Gordy spent 2 hours yesterday morning burying himself, so I thought he was going to moult. But I got home from work and he was out and about! Is that bad?
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Nope. Mine do it all the time. :P
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Lol fair enough. Well Gordy is buried again, he spent the whole day yesterday just sitting outside the plastic around Greg's spot, I wonder if crabs can miss other crabs lol (or maybe he wanted to bury there as well lol :S). He buried right at the front of the tank, so i've had to put a piece of cardboard in front of the tank so the light and me moving around doesn't upset him.
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One of my crabs dug down for two days and came back up. I think he was fakin me out.
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Lol I swear they have a warped sense of humour or something, they like to "play" with our minds :P
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Cosmo did that! I almost had a fit.
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