HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Just an fyi, you need to boil the shells in dechlorinated water, not spring water. Yes, I mentioned that they would not be glossy after you boiled them. I said it would take the shiny off. You can put olive oil on them to make them a little glossy again, or you can buy a dremmel and polishing buffe...

Sometimes my crabs like to hang out of their shell and I notice it is because they seem to be cleaning themselves. As soon as they see another crab in sight, they zoom back in for defense. I've also seen a crab lunge at another that was half out of their shell cleaning.

Youre fine. Sorry about the loss of your crab and I was just confused

Cute!

I ended up separating them and the attacker is in a 10 gal. It was very scary, I heard chirping from PPs for the first time. Just seeing a big pincer open a milimeter from a leg got my nerves up

Don’t have much just time what do I do I can’t separate them

Assuming it’s safe but just asking to make sure

When I had isopods I need them in a tank alone for the aspect of having them as pets instead of cleaners. I just put 5 in my tank not to breed, just because it’s fun seeing the same ones every now and then

That doesn’t change why the legs are there tho

I've never replaced my sand. Smell it. If it doesn't smell bad, I would leave it. I don't even mix my sand up. I just add a little bit every so often because it settles. To each's own though :) When I had to dig up my deceased PP I noticed the tank definitely was flooded and had a bacterial bloom. ...

I noticed in the bucket you kept hem in there are crab legs. Am I missing something?

HermitofHermitCrabs wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:37 am

Started in 2004 with one PP and by 2007 had gone from a 10G to 20G to 75G. By that point I had nearly 40 crabs of three species. Now, I’ve just recently got back in it and my kids like them so I’ll probably stick with it this time.

Wow! I would love to have 40 crabs and a giant tank lol

Was considering whether to put this in Crab Behaviors or here, but the main point is that I got a new white LED light. Ever since, my crabs have been more active, but only active until like 12 at night. Then they come back out at like 7 am when the lights turn on. Its pretty weird, but is it problem...

JoeHermits wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 02, 2019 12:09 pm

If they’re bugging you,
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Lol!

For some reason my hermits have become very sick at one point when I found a dead moth in the water. It scared me because they didn't, or barely moved for few days straight. Eventually they recovered. I don't know for sure what caused it, the moth or something else