HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I did look into that, thanks soilentgringa. :) If anyone was lurking and curious about the answer: Found more information, still limited, pertaining to Halloween and Rainbow crabs(the most common type to keep it seems). Most people keep rainbows alone as they tend to fight if not kept in huge enclos...

I've been looking at Rainbow and Halloween care the most(as they are most commonly kept as pets), and from what I can tell a lot of them are kept solo as they are more territorial than Hermit Crabs. I was reading on one care sheet that they only had luck keeping multiple in an enclosure if it was 60...

Hi HCA, Let's keep this brief. I used to keep crabs, had a really nice, established colony around 20-40 crabs big. (Didn't write the numbers down, kinda too late to check now) They died. Not sure how, could of been multiple different causes. Vacation and caregiver wasn't attentive as they claimed, d...

A lot of times when my larger crabs come up they like to bring there exo with them (UGH its DISGUSTING) and I leave it in the tank for all the crabs to munch on, but if its ever a piece of a crab(with meat and such), I try to remove it.

I only have E's and PP's (From what I know) but the only aggression I've seen is PPs going after other PPs. :? never seen any other kind of aggression. the crabs getting stuck in exo makes so much sense though, i've had that happen a few times. come across them during a deep clean, help them out of ...

Eastern Canada. Ontario to be specific. I was tempted to click "Other" and say I was from Vulcan lol. but thats just my dork showing.

WOW. looks great so far. can't wait to see the finished pictures!! I have a suggestion, you know the tube weird white things that are in your most updated pics of the tat? im not sure if there for anything, but if there just there for the crabs to be in cool areas, you could put moss inside of each ...

that looks like its going to be great!!
but as a tip..
maybe you should put in more substrate??
that way if you ever get Jumbos or something if you dont already have them...
you will be ready!

Glad all your molts are going well I tried to ISO molt one crab but it never worked. all my molts have been in the main tank.

great tank BTW

Now, my mom has never EVER wanted me to get MHC ever since she learned they had to have salt water, because we've had very bad experience with salt water tanks. Well... My dad is thinking of expanding the pond (AGAIN!!) but he wants to make a 'Tadpole' section, where just a little bit of water trick...

Mr. Blue Viperfish wrote:I only have a 20 gallon. I really want a bigger tank. I have two ISOs, one 10 gallon and one 5 gallon.

Believe me, you don't. there a LOT of work.

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I think my first was around a 10g, but it was bigger then a 5. it was an old hamster cage that my mom claimed was 10g.

EE! so good

so I've been looking at different lid types and I thought I'd get a plexi glass lid but I read on a couple of places that you need to cut holes for the lamps. is that true? If it is, I think I'll be going with a different type of lid.. haha


anyway, Any feedback is appreciated.

I found one for 12(or was it 16..) dollars in the petsmart. it had a velcro attacher to the back and It has Humidity & Tempature on it. many people seem to use it.

I finished it last night (I had started on Wensday) And there all back In the main tank. I had put about 13 micros into the 10g and 8 or so crabs in the other(Megatron takes up 2 gallons). There enjoying It and I'll get some pictures up of what it looked like before & After later on. :3 Edit: They c...