HCA: Hermit Crab Association

MudCrabDude wrote:First time I'm giving hibiscus flowers. They like 'em.

I tried them recently as well and mine totally loved them too...

Currently, they are mostly obsessed with rotten apples and fortune cookies...

My fantastic 2nd level is built with plexi glass, sealant and choya wood for support. This is where all the extra shells are kept as well as a hut and a water dish. Every new crab starts here to change shells and get acclimated to the humidity before they venture off to the rest of the tank. To the ...

I currently have one jumbo in the moss pit and the other is in one of those giant ghourd hideys...my husband took the Dremel and made the doorway even larger and it now is easier to get into. It is big enough to fit 2 jumbos no problem.

Looks awesome! If I may make a couple of suggestions, get some fish netting from Michael's for example, and suction cup it to the back wall of your tank for more climbing places, put a moss pit shower caddy up in one of the corners for chill time and maybe a vine from one side to the other for more ...

Poncho...thanks for the pix of those hooks...I am going to take a look at my Walmart for those for sure!

Looks terrific...my only comment from personal experience, is to not have any rock or rock slabs...I have had crabs fall from vines or plants up top and crack their shells on stuff below them.

I did a great thread on this recently when I had my first terrible infestation of these little buggers. Hope it helps you...

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I think that's a terrific idea!

I have never done anything with all of mine other than take the price tag off, spray it with salt water and put it in the tank.

2 tanks for us; one 75 gallon with about 50 PP's and E's from micros to larges and a 40xH with 2 jumbos and 2 larges that are all in molting which is what this tank is now used for...

Last night was one shell with can-o-shrimp (river) and can-o-cricket, which was another smash success for some! Another shell had krill, and I watched as one of the crabs literally snatched one of them up and dragged it off and was devouring it...and the main shell had freeze-dried banana and aprico...

I personally don't use any rocks in my tank for fear that a crab could fall from one of the upper positions and crack it's shell if it landed on a rock...but that's just me...

crabbymommie wrote:I want to start making my own dried staple food. I have got everything else down but I have no idea where to start with this one.

Thanks,
crabbymommie

What ambition! I believe someone on here started doing their own as well after buying a food dehydrator...

I am telling you mine (a good % of them) go out of their minds for the chilly mixes...I make this paste with it and they get all jiggy with it hahahaha

I just received a new batch of foods from Hermit Crab Addiction and had to share what the hit of the night has been: I did a shell mix of water and their flower chilly roses blend which you make into a paste. The crabs came out from nowhere and inhaled it. The other successes so far have been all of...