HCA: Hermit Crab Association

The downside is that crabs LOVE knocking sprouts over. Then they lay on their side with suggestively wilted faces, seeming to cry "heeeelp meeee" and it just pains me to see the poor lil srouts like that. Some cut in half. Others strewn about. Mostly just sat upon, humiliated by heavy crab bottoms. ...

YAY! Dug under is a good sign. It means he had the strength and will to do what he needed. Now you just need to wait it out for him to come back up for you. Good luck!


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You need to let crabs molt. They can and will disappear fpr longer than a week. Crabs have been gone 4 months. Then, you need to not rebury crabs after you have disturbed them. Their caves are formed the way they have been doing it all their lives. To throw that off could stress or suffocate them. J...

They will be fine. They'll either rot and decompose or mold and show you where they are for cleaning.
Lil sprouts are sooo cuuuuute!


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He can dig his way out of a lightweight cup.
Chirping might be a call of distress, if someone got to him from under the cup. It might be worth a peek. I would peek.


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I have 3Es and 2PPs together. There was 1 E and 1 PP who seemed to have formed a bond before, when only they were up. But after everyone molted and shell changed they all seem to ignore each other now. I only have the 5 crabs in a 75gallon (4x1.5 or so) so the crabs have ample space. I mostly got th...

It is possible that she got too stressed out and died since the beginning, and shen she deshelled it was her last breath. Either way there isn't anything you can do for her at this point. Wait for the death smell, but if she is limp and naked i think she is dead. If she isn't death smelling you coul...

If i go to smash one of these guys and he starts YMCAing, i would say he has earned his life and freedom! [emoji2]


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Very cool! No idea the science behind it, but glad to have crabbers with such heart around. Thank you for this story!


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Maybe we can start a picture thread of what location hardware store is carrying what brand+colored sand [emoji14]


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You can put it in the ISO food dish. She can recycle the nutrients from her old LP to grow a new LP.


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Crabs are not domestic animals, they are wild animals plucked from nature and placed into a tank in your living room. That means hiding or running from a human being is a healthy and natural thing to do. Just respect that natural instinct and maybe one day it will learn to tolerate you. If you do en...

Hi. Shelby naturally has what it takes in order to make it through this type of ordeal. She needs to gather nutrients and then molt in order to repair her LP. If she can get around, walk, eat, drink, etc, and if Violet is no longer VioleNt to Shelby, you can simply leave Shelby alone in the tat and ...

I respect spiders... By staying the heck away from them!!! I do let them outside when i can. When i can't they hang out in the vacuum for a little bit.


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I think different states just get different sand [emoji17] not much we can do, unless you're in the market to import sand!


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