HCA: Hermit Crab Association

october the 14th

All of my crabs have molted at least once. Others though have molted twice and all of my hermit crabs have molted successfully. so i have probably had about 15 or 16 molts in my time of crabbing and never have i restricted salt water.

i have had Australian hermit crabs for nine months so far and i honestly don't think salt water needs to be restricted at all. My reasons for this is that in the wild they have constant salt water and they don't seem to die in the wild.

plus they are way more active with out restricted salt water.

where did you get them from?

i would suggest that you could try to get climbing things from outside( things like sticks and rocks i don't think crabs can be around eucalyptus )make sure that they are safe for crabs. as for moss i don't use it and i even when i have i prefer to not use it. you will most likely need to buy your s...

tassie does have wild moss but i would not use the common sort of moss that grows in the garden and it only really grows at least 1mm high. so it isn't really that useful.

fact

Tasmania has 1300 ha of peat-lands to harvest sphagnum moss most is in national parks so it is unharvestable.

i get my sphagnum moss from the local hardware store k'n'd which also sells plants it about $10 for 6lt

ummm this might sound strange but i got all my shells, salt water, climbing stuff from the beach. i got my heater at the pet store and I'm not quite sure where i got the tank as we have had it for ages

tell your dad he is really cool if he was asking you when you need another tank cos my dad is like "your tank is fine" or "I'm not getting you a bigger tank"

i also live in Australia and a started to restrict my Aussies salt water 3 weeks ago. since then i have noticed that they have become very inactive all they do is lay around all day. i am thinking about giving them there salt water all the time. i will trial to see if they become more active. one of...

i don't get it you can get natural shells that look way better than the stupid painted shells they make the crabs wear

my crabs seem to fall heaps on to the rocks so i wouldn't really want them to get cut or to die if the glass shell broke. even though they are so cool