HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Unfourtunately, it died.

A strange odor is issuing from my crabitat. It is sharp and sour, nothing like the fishy scent of a dead crab( although I have never smelled it before, so I wouldn't know really). I just changed the crabs sand and used saltwater to moisten it. I also put their large saltwater pool back in (something...

A friend of mine's parents brought her home a saltwater crab from the beach and she has no idea how to take care of it. I told her to come here but I doubt she has. I'll be seeing her on Monday, is there anything I can tell her to do to make the crab more comfortable? Right now she said it's in a a ...

I am currently deep cleaning my cage and have taken all the old sand out and am putting in new. I am meticulously straining it as it goes in to keep out large rocks and whatever else (it's play sand) and my arm is getting tired! Can I just dump the bag in?

From what I've been reading around here, it seems that crabs are easily stressed (kinda like my Dad, lol) and you have to e careful what you do with their tat. So are there like methods and formulas that need be carried out to the letter when you need to mess with the tank?

I was thinking I could probably find a nice plastic tub to serve as a saltwater pool when I get my two new Strawberries. I could do that right? It wouldn't be fancy or anything, I'd just dig a cavity in the sand, and put the tub in, then fill it up with salt water? I wouldn't need some kind of pump ...

I picked up some aquarium/terrarium plants with sucker feet for the crabitat. I like them but they smell really plastic-y now that they're in there! Like the whole entire place is reeking of these two things. So now I wondering 1: are they safe and 2: how good is a crab's sense of smell?

On Saturday my friend brought her hermit crabs over to visit mine. While they crawled around in a box we built them a huge maze out of blocks. All went well when in the last race her big hermit wouldn't come out. It picked him up an tried to coax him. Unfortunately my finger was a little to close to...

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