HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I've heard MANY different lengths of time over the past few years so I'm not sure what an accurate average would be. I've had my crabs for 2 years & 5 months

I'm leaning towards the crabs getting the mites from captivity--someone posted on here (can't remember who) that they thought the crabs were getting the mites from being close to the reptile section in the petstores--that makes sense to me. I've never seen any mites on my crabs (knock on wood) and I...

No I doubt it's the stray pet hair. My cat sheds BIG time and I let my crabs crawl around where she's been and never had a problem. I think that by ruling out all the other stuff and the fact that you just recently introduced the light then I guess it must be that causing the problem. But like I sai...

Well if you've been using that salad for a while then that's probably not it. And since only the two of you handle the crabs then the perfume theory is out. I'm just so totally stumped--I guess I was just grasping and hoping to try to help you figure this out. I'm so sorry that you lost another crab...

Mmmm.. I just really don't know Anomaly. Had you recently started using the light? Was it completely dark on them at night prior to the light being used? etc etc I've had my crabs since August of '03 and I've always kept the utility light on at night--but it's not a light that is directly over the t...

I'm stumped as well--but I'm leaning towards pps because I keep reading of crabs from bad conditions passing 3 to 5 months after purchase--I agree w/the others about the negative effects of a poor environment showing up later. I also want to say AND PLEASE don't anyone on here think that I'm knockin...

Christa,
THANKS FOR DOING THE BUTTONS!!! I was so hoping that you would!!
I'm gonna have to place another order now!
Thanks again!!