HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Ugh. Many a quiet evening has been interrupted by April coming up from the basement and dropping a live mouse in the middle of the living room. We'd have to drop everything and find the mouse before she mangled it.

I'm picturing a feeling of disgust when a ladybug vomits that yellow gunk on me. They're cute insects, but they've got to quit chewing tobacco.

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It's different than the woodsy, organic crabitat smell. Sort of like a glue smell. Sometimes there is no smell, or it is very faint, especially if the crab is buried. I wonder if different species make a different smell? Not that it would make a difference in their care, but it would be cool to know...

Greetings everyone!I have some very important news to share with you all. On May 1st, I will be transferring the ownership of landhermitcrabs.com over to JediMasterThrash. As many of you know, I adopted out my hermit crabs several years ago for various reasons. Shortly afterwards, the recession hit ...

And here is me after having Zachary. Not as thin but definitely a lot happier! He was less than one week old in this picture.Oh and KC I keep meaning to say that every time I see that Octopus, I think of you!

Ok, here's me from a few years ago, when I was at my "fightin weight." As in, I needed to look good because I wasn't married yet.

Hi Jen!I'd love to send you a Christmas card back, but I'm afraid you have never told me your last name. There is a card here waiting for you!warmly!Christa

Hey everyone,Recently there have been some instances of posts being made where the subject was something like HELP ME or READ THIS.For ages we had a thread in LHC that said that those kinds of posts were discouraged here, but the thread seems to have gotten lost somewhere. So this is reiteration of ...

Hello everyone,Most of you know that I fund landhermitcrabs.com out of my pocket each month. Recently my financial situation has become quite difficult, owing in large part to the faltering economy and my husband being a financial advisor (stockbroker). It seems that nobody wants to invest anymore, ...

Hello everyone!Yes I am still here and still working for LHC behind the scenes. So in my position as Admin I'd like to remind everyone that Yes, you CAN edit your own posts, for a period of at least 24 hours after posting originally.What this means is, if you have recently made a post and then find ...

As long as the hidey you put on top of him keeps him nice and dark (as in, no sunlight shining into his shell opening), he should be fine. In the past I've put food and water dishes on top of molters to keep them dark. For a jumbo though, there is always a lot more of this :tearhair1:: and this :ban...

Hey all, I was relaying this to another member via PM and realized that it might help other crabbers who happen upon molters by surprise: "Good news -- my big guy molted perfectly! I surprised him freshly molted and tried something new -- put his exo in a plastic cup, then put him in with it. Then I...

Hello!At the crabby get-together some of us had last week, I brought out a few of my favorite crab books. One that I forgot to bring out is this one: PagooThe book is called Pagoo. Pagoo is a marine hermit crab but it is still an absolutely wonderful book. I found it when I was in the third grade an...

Ummm... well to quote a favorite story of mine.. the land hermit crab population in Bermuda actually decreased after the advent of indoor plumbing. Yummy thought, that. Maybe your other hermies missed some nutrients on the first go around? Just be glad they aren't eating cork bark. Cork goes right t...

I'm terribly sad to hear about this. Strawberry crabs are a delicate and still-mysterious species, [smilie=hug.gif] If it's any help I've personally never been able to keep them alive as long as I have my other species.

((((EL))))

Christa