HCA: Hermit Crab Association

thanks for the help! turns out he was done molting because i saw a very eaten exo. he was up and walking around looking healthy this morning.

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this happened to me before, although i am sure it was PPS. he deid that night.

one of mine draws into his shell to groom because he is afraid of me. i see his tiny legs flying around in their! they seem to groom a lot during the day.

it is probably grooming itself. dont worry.

i am looking to get another crab, but what goes good with only PPs? it will be the only one of it's kind, but i will still have other crabs in there. what species works?

mine does that too but is really shy. he gets along great with the others and loves to climb but is afraid of me. i dont dig him up, i just find tunnels and he has his shell poking out of the ground, just resting. i usually just pick him up sometimes to get excersise and climb, but he spends half an...

one of mine crawled out of his bath when i turned my back(he had mites, but i found out later they were just springtails) and he somehow climbed the plastic wall and jumped out onto my lego bin. i panicked but heard legos clinking and scopped him out. he had an adventure!

cool! show more pics of crabs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so awesome!

you can remove the "skin" from behind their eyes when they die and it shows lines from how many times they have molted, kind of like a tree stump.

mango has a pale BP and shadow has a very dark BP, while salsa has a blueish BP and acorn has a mix of blue and dark purple. strange.

also, what is a pigmented PP?

yeah, just dont over do the water. make sure the sand looks damp and easy to shape. also, if you smell rotten fish, he has passed.

i heard one large crab molted for 7 and a half months on some other forum. i forgot which. i am subscribed to like 4.

yea, i messed up on that one! that was before i got into species identification, i just saw a pic of a viola that looked like shadow. LOL