HCA: Hermit Crab Association

i was not strong willed. i started with 2 and now have 10 or 11

yeah how's ur little buddy doing?

Oh my gosh. I'm sorry about ur crab. I wish i could give u some advice but i wouldn't even know where to look.

ewww gross. it couldn't fall right out at all. My mom laid it on its back with it's body spread out, his front body was laying on it's back but part of it was in the shell. We left it and stared for 2min. and then it was yanked or pulled back in, the front part didn't move at all, it came from in th...

yeah so um.... why hasn't he moved? it's been a month the exo is just hanging out a bit. there is no bad smell but i see no surface molt!! what's going on. He hasn't pushed his exo skeleton out nothing. I'm going to attempt to remove the exo tomorrow with the help of my mom. If anyone has been throu...

oh yeah duh i can just cut out some from the inside. i should wash it before though right?

yeah me too!! He is in Isolation. But I don't know how long it takes for them to surface molt. It's never happened to me.

He's not dead!!! He's molting. when my mom was pulling the crab out we realized that something was pulling it back into the shell.ha ha ha. yay!!! I could see that it was just the exoskeleton hanging out

:/ ok. i'll have my mom bury it. :/ i can't take them out of the shell it's yucky.

that's what I thought.But there is no horrible dead fishy smell.

About a week ago I noticed a crab that stayed still. I moved him slightly and he kinda hung out just barley. Now he hasn't moved since then, he is in the same position that I left him in. I've had crabs die on me before and I'ld recognize the smell if it were death..and this time it doesn't smell th...

wow that is so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so very happy for you

I did it. I signed it. I thought it would be a little harder.

I separated the turbos and the other shells but they all come in one bag,