HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Some teeny ants have invaded the crabitat and have been eating the food in the food dish. Anyone have any advice about getting rid of them? As best as I can tell, they are grease ants. I removed the top layer of sand and thought I got rid of them (replaced the sand so it is the right level and consi...

Hello! We just made the DIY tupperware water dish for our crab so that he can submerse himself. He has buried himself (hoping he will molt!) and is not using it now... And I saw two little white organisms swimming around in it today. They look like worms and are only a few millimeters long. What do ...

I'm fairly new, so I don't know if I can speak to your question exactly, but something that could help is determining the sex of both which is not too difficult. Females will have two spots on their hindmost walking legs and males won't. The topic on Breeding should give some more help on how to det...

Hello :) So, first of all, bubblers is kind of a simple term that us crabbers call air stones. The air stones would go into the crab's pools. Crabs are supposed to have pools that they can fully submerge in. Those pools that the "bubblers" would go into would replace your saltwater dish and your fr...

Hi! We just got a PP this weekend and are slowly researching and understanding the care that he needs. We've got a 10 gal tank with 6" sub, just got a side heater (is a UTH), and bought him some extra shells online, careful to measure what sizes he might want. We have questions specifically about wa...

Thank you all for the help! We will look into getting a glass lid and sealing our mesh one until we can get one. The substrate is about 6" deep, sandcastle consistency, and we definitely used dechlorinated freshwater :) Thank you for the info on misting! I had no idea it could be harmful in the futu...

Fairly new to crabbing here! We have one medium sized PP (hoping to adopt more whenever we can find some!) in a 10 gallon tank and while the temperature has been right at 80, the humidity is often in the mid 70s, sometimes even high 60s... I mist every morning and in the evening if the humidity is l...