HCA: Hermit Crab Association

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I will try a kiddy tumbler first. I plan to stuff the shells with moist paper towel to keep the inside somewhat protected. It will be trial and error :) The acid we got is called Magic Acid or similar. It wont harm your skin as long as it is not broken, but still do the job. I will post an update on...

I am always on the hunt for more shells and often I pick them up in home decor sections. Many of them are very crusty and I used to spend an eternity with my Dremel Tool and a Dentist Pick scraping them clean. I heard that shell collectors use Muriatic Acid to clean their shells. We have a bottle in...

sometimes the plastic/rubber hardens and gets stiff. I throw the suction cups in a cup with hot water for a bit and it makes them flexible again.

I give them marrow as well! They seem to like it A LOT!!!

what kind of heating pad was it? ultratherms, as i have read, are a big step above normal heating pads it could have also been defective, like getting too hot or something.. i will change my words to very rarely! back then we used ZooMed heating pads, but moved on to ultratherms. at first, because ...

UTH's were made to go on glass so no they wont break the glass. as well they dont dry out the sand any more than a heat lamp would not entirely true! the UTH on our snake nursery did crack the tank. we had it filled with aspen and when my son changed the snakes water and spilled some where the pad ...

blazingazn wrote:how about this concept?

http://www.martinscages.com/products/cages/toppers/

I would be worried about loosing too much humidity with the cage toppers!

egg yolk, shrimp, seaweed, bloodworm, oak, squash omelet
dried cherry and a piece of fresh shed, healthy snake skin

I do buff the natural shells with a tiny bit of olive oil that I wipe off when I am done. I am not concerned about it going rancid. I clean my shells (rinse/boil/buff) every now and then and olive oil takes a while to go bad! Last year I found an opened bottle of olive oil on my husbands work bench ...

I did something similar for a fish tank once. I had to soak and rinse the background FOREVER!
I don't think you will have to do that for a Crabitat... since it wont change the ph of the entire tank as it would with fish
Yours looks a lot better than the one I made years ago

If you use sandpaper... it will take you ages to get any kind of shine to it! When I made jewelry from Shells, I would use the Dremel with a sanding bit for clams etc and my hubbys bandsander for snail shells. It is not a quick and easy process! I never used Mineral Oil on my Jewelry, because the sh...

For the Hermies piece of raw beef kibble (homemade) seaweed ground brown rice fresh basil and parsley peach and grape dried cherry hibiscus flower I stole of my neighbors bush side of crushed oyster shell, ground cuttlebone, ground eggshell and seasalt :wink: My homo sapiens get Gulash Soup with Ita...

I have my Snackmaster since 2003 when my husband went to Iraq and buying Beef Jerky for the weekly care packages got way too expensive! It is still running and works like on day one! For the Crabs I am dehydrating everything I can get my hands on from the save food list. (Leafs, blossoms, veggies, f...

I use NATURAL POLISHED HEMP ($5 at Walmart at the jewelry/beads crafting section) and a size F/3.75 Crochet Hook. I use the thinnest yarn they carry, because it is not as stiff and easy to crochet! It puffs up and gets thicker once you wet it!!! A smaller hook would make tighter/smaller stitches, bu...