HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Update, my little hermies seemed to be starting to get a bit aggressive towards each other in the transition tank over the last couple of weeks. SO I have tiny crab proofed (I HOPE) my larger tank and moved 9 of them over yesterday morning. Then late last night I found a 10th baby in the transition ...

Crabs often choose shells that are too small just before they molt. This is because when they first come up they are smaller till the exo hardens and fills out.

Renroc wrote:

Food party tonight over on the egg.


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This shell with the food in it is the same one with just one crab nearly filling it up today.

Wow! I've haven't been active in the community for probably seven or eight years now... just getting back into it. Last time I was active, I hadn't heard of anyone successfully breeding hermits. This is so cool! They're so adorable. Who else has bred them in captivity? Has there been a lot? It's so...

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Day 97 time has flown by. They continue to climb everything in the tat and explore. I know I have 8 but I'm hoping there are still 10.


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[quote="LadyJinglyJones"

Sigh... they grow up so fast! [/quote]

I hope it will be a while until I am a crab grandma.

Kermie16 wrote:Love them climbing all over the sweet potatoe!! How big would u say they are now, Renroc?


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They are still in 4-5mm openings in shells. BUT their leg span is well over 1cm and close to 2 I'd think.

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11 weeks and 2 days. Growing heaps. Cooked sweet potato was a. If hit tonight. They spent over an hour munching. Between courses they went for laps around the salt pool and climbed the barnacle in there. Then they checked out the hidey holes in the new drift wood.


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GotButterflies wrote:@Renroc ~ you might want to edit your post. You removed the first

, so it looks like you said that. [emoji6]


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Thanks. I didn't want to quote the whole lot and accidently removed the quote code I needed.

Im experiencing the same now with two of my four crabs. They will even walk on my hand and eat from me. Their eye site is horrible to so its alot of going very very slow. I'm almost tempted to try leaving a dirty sock or shirt in the tank like you can do with small animals and reptiles. Sent from m...

No chance of them being more social at all. That is an inate survival mechanism which will not change. They duck into their shells at shadows and hide just like other crabs

This worked for me


But this was even better because it is finer but remember I'm in Australia so brands might be different here.

Do it on the computer and you can just keep adding to each part of the one file


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