HCA: Hermit Crab Association

@fantasybookworm that's exactly what I always used to do; HCP castings, crushed oyster & mineral powder. Since starting my store I get my castings elsewhere & a oyster shell powder (as opposed to HCP's chunkier blend) too since I can source 2 of the 3 cheaper on wholesale for myself & the crabs. @wo...

I've received it with adoptions and I'm 99% sure it's montmorillonite or bentonite clay. It's what I've been buying and giving to mine instead. Some day I'll find the old label from the product when they actually listed the ingredients (they then claimed someone copied it so they stopped listing th...

Too sick to do direct quoting so will thrown in what I can remember in response to the last few replies. What you said about the farmers letting the jade snails get bigger makes perfect sense Wode; I just hadn't heard that & always wondered about the gap myself. I'd be willing to bet that any contam...

They may be having issues & as the biggest HC supply retailer it's hard to keep "good" sizes in stock (as a seller, I understand that some of the wholesalers require a 100-1,000 minimum order) but I promise you *their* foods (as opposed to some of the other lines they carry) are solid. On an aside, ...

Responses like yours ^^^^^^^^^^ are why HCA needs to install the "like" plug-in.

My suggestion would be to contact PayPal directly about the refund; especially since the seller isn't responding and PayPal already has had to deal with her not shipping/issuing refunds. Shoot, maybe they'll decide enough is enough and pull her ability to use them to take people's money. You can als...

Wode, I love your optimistic, benefit-of-the-doubt view on it ;) As a small business owner myself I absolutely understand getting overwhelmed as well as health issues getting in the way, BUT when it's happened to me I have still made a point of posting publicly that orders would still be going out, ...

Has anyone ever ordered from triops Germany from the us KellyCrabbieLove is right. People in the US have ordered & that was what happened because he was using DHL. Yeah, as in no better than UPS to move live animals across the globe. He sent something like 63 crabs to the US in 5 shipments and all ...

I'm gonna play Devil's Advocate here and say that it's possible there's more to this story. It's not that it's impossible but only that in my 5 years of crabbing (I ordered from them; including crabs when they still sold them, all the time until I started my own store), I never had any issue with th...

I've not ordered from either Reptile City or Elite Inverts but they both sell straws. http://www.reptilecity.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=reptiles&Category_Code=HERMIT (Looks like EI is cheaper for the crab itself at least) http://www.eliteinverts.com/strawberry-land-hermit-crab...

The Aussies have been showing as in stock for a while; has anyone heard of anyone actually getting any? Sorry if it's been posted elsewhere; it's 6am and I am sicky & too tired to look around,hh. @coffee cup; how expensive was the shipping from Reptile City (not that I would risk having straws shipp...

O Wow!!! have most of her crabs come clean or did they always have mites & bugs? From what I have seen over the last 4 1/2 years it can go either way. Every season SOMEONE gets crabs from her that have mites but some people get crabs who don't (from what I understand & have seen they always come wi...

I just wanted to warn everybody not to order from her. I'm on a bunch of FB groups and dead crabs from her are showing up left and right from my count at least 15 in the past month :crabcry: . It seems as if she no longer cares about these crabs and only wants the money. I can't verify this but I h...

I don't know if you mean from the last batch of orders but I have some crabs from last year that have molted at least 5 times, a few of them have doubled in size since December, I also have a med viola molt and a blue molt from this last batch so far. No, I was referring to this season's batch of o...

kitkathermiesworld wrote:
* I found a website where I can order about 600 shells for $157.00 not bad!

Oh do tell please!