HCA: Hermit Crab Association

just wanted to say you're awesome!
so kind of you to try to help those little guys and good luck!!

I used salt water as suggested here and have had successful molts, so I don't feel the need to change anything. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Same here just want to know if the is documentation that crabs don't ever molt in the wild near.any salt. Sent from my SM-G360T1 using Tapatalk as far as ...

from what I've gathered, its best to offer the colored 'hermit crab' sands in small portions (a dish for them to crawl through and explore a new texture, or a mini beach dug shallowly into the playsand/cocofiber mixture). . it has less to do with whether or not hermies will molt in it all, but more ...

awzz!! she's so cute!!! great photos

amazing !!!
any work with monarchs is underappreciated!
keep up the good work

awezzz sorry!!

hey I just wanted to say hiiii and say that it sounds like you're doing everything you can for you little guy! I thought about what i'd be doing from what you described, and it would be the same- offering fresh sources of anything they might wanna munch on to feel better, making sure they're not too...

capt. jack?!? lmaooo luv it!

so since I got Pluto, he got a sw dip and gentle scrub, and spent 4days in iso where I saw it move literally once!(in the sneaky photo I snapped tues night) lol I'd come home for work, or look in the morning and she/he would just be sitting tucked in with the 3new shells I was hoping it'd chose to s...

https://s32.postimg.org/6ndfitwlx/20160709_194447.jpg https://postimage.org/ its dark here so my photos aren't coming out the best, I made a rock ledge in back left behind the fw pool to add a level... https://s32.postimg.org/sm6usa4w5/20160709_190330.jpg https://postimage.org/ made a half log tunn...

so I did some rearranging today. . I'm trying to work on 'levels' and creating more hermy hide-a-aways. Turbo got his name for being my biggest and most active hermy. He's always my first to check things out .. ..aka the first to collapse perfectly placed wood and rock piles.. . :tank: I'm thinking ...

thank you for all your help Jules!!
I'm gonna make the switch soon and I'll post some pics in tanks or something!!!
thanks again,
amanda

im gonna go check out hd in a few here, but last time I was wandering around lowes lawn n garden (I know and shame on me for not browsing playsand then haha) anyway I saw sorghum moss for like topping around potted plants... seemed like it had no chemicals or fertilizers, and as long as it doesn't, ...

ahhhhh crushed oyster shell, duh, that's a great solution. I'm gonna just skip the calc sand convenience and head to town in a few here and make the switch! I read about choosing a bag from the center of the pallet in the hopes it hasn't been damaged or polluted. ..no orange from homedepot, no funny...

oh yea, I thought he was gonna molt there too and I worried I didn't notice quick enough to catch it and move him so I was gonna cover the window and roll with it, but he popped up and out by the next morning... I truely think he just felt like digging and checking out the 'new beach' lol