HCA: Hermit Crab Association

thermidor wrote:My guys refuse to use African Turbos-but they are so gorgeous I just leave them in as tank décor! What a haul..

Yeah so far no takes. Just lots of cheking all the shells out. They pushed them all the way to the back of the tank tho. Little snots.

So I missed my turn on the way home and ended up at an antique/flea market store place. I decided I go in and tske a look around and found a booth with GORGEOUS shells. I figured they would be stupid expensive but was stoked to find the most expensive to be 11$ Softball sized african and polished an...

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Sounds like my story! Had hermies as a teen but had to give them up when I went to college but was able to come back once I got an apartment ^.^

that was actually one of the posts I was reading that made me think I was useless >.<
yeah... I think im just going to take it back tomorrow and wait till they have bulbs in stock... or just go find another store >_> our petco is run down and sketchy anyway.

Don't worry about the number - those do not remain the same from brand to brand. Zilla 25 is the same as Exoterra 5.0 is the same as Exoterra 100 CFls. All put out a mild amount of UVB that is meant to be like dappled sunlight and is used for tropical species. If anything, it'll be too mild. ah! th...

so I did a bad thing and bought a uvb fixture without doing my research. http://www.petco.com/product/111653/Zilla-Slimline-Tropical-25-UVB-T8-Fluorescent-Fixture.aspx?CoreCat=certona-_-ProductListTopRated_Reptile_4-_-Zilla%20Slimline%20Tropical%2025%20UVB%20T8%20Fluorescent%20Fixture-11165 I bought...

eggplant, blood worms, honey, and their calcium/D3 supplement ^_^

I'm almost out of shrimps and blood worms and things.. eep! need to go get more protein!

Its a UVB rating of 25 or 25 watts? Can you link the petco url? uvb rating 25, 15watts it appears: http://www.petco.com/product/111653/Zilla-Slimline-Tropical-25-UVB-T8-Fluorescent-Fixture.aspx?CoreCat=OnSiteSearch :evil: it's on sale online?! ugh. I paid full price in store :/ I have a 40B, I got ...

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My "terrarium" is pretty sweet...just sayin... *stoked about having my dream tank*

Bumping this. My petco was out of anything under 25...
Is that going to hurt anything? Its a flourescent tube light fixture.

wodesorel wrote:Terrarium keeping is serious business.

Tru fax! LOL

I wish I could avoid it being delivered to the office. Maybe I can request to work from home the day its supposed to be delivered

Now to figure out how to explain to my front office that the aquarium stand is not for fish...and have to avoid mentioning crabs too because im guessing theyd consider them bugs and were not alowed to hve those....sooo...I grow plants >.> as far as they know

:P well... I ended up with a cabinet anyway! got an email from petco today saying free shipping on any order (though I'm guessing the stand would have qualified for free shipping normally), and when I went to research if I could pay paypal, since I just got a sum of money this week, not only did the...

Nope. I moved to michigan from south caroline for work! No one for miles. I have a few local friends but I hate to bug them for stuff like This. I alread bought one of my friends qdoba to come ocer and carry the tank to my 3rd floor apt XD AND! im actually in touch with the hermit crab landing! Her ...

mini shrimps and sweet potatos for today