HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Hmm, I may have to pick one of those up. In the meantime, I've tried adding more moss and super saran wrapping the top of the tank. Like, I've got pretty much the entire top covered, except the very front edge where the light rests. Lots of saran wrap was used. I refilled the pools, made sure everyt...

Hm, I'll have to see if my violas have any preference for berries! Perhaps I'll have to make up a new mix just for violas? I know my strawberries love strawberries, of course. It'd be pretty silly if they didn't.

I never had problems with humidity when I had a glass lid. Life was so much easier! Then I got strawberries last year, and switched over to a UV bulb to make them happy and healthy. Now, I have to use a mesh lid, and while I do cover the open part with saran wrap, the other part where the light is l...

I might be posting some shells and things to my hermit crab supply store on Etsy soon, and those will be available for international shipping :D The foods, however, I'm not shipping internationally just yet, but if you are interested I will look up the relevant laws and perhaps that will be a thing ...

I live in Minneapolis, and unfortunately, I've never had luck finding Es around here :( Petco had them briefly a few years back, but they haven't had them again since. I tried to teach the guy who runs the Highland Park Petco's fish department about the different types of crabs, but he's much more o...

What I find to be most important to hermit crabs is a wide variety of foods. They are scavengers intghe wild and will eat just about anything - from carrion to feces. I feed some dried goods, some fresh fruit and veggies, and most importantly, I feed them something different every day, so they never...

I love HCP! I buy lots of their stuff to decorate my 'tat. They have a red sea fan right now I'd love to get if I had more disposable income. So pretty! The black sea fan I ordered from them forever ago is getting pretty beat up, but that will happen after like 2 years, heh.

Thanks <3 Just a little something I'm doing for fun, honestly. I love coming up with new mixes for the crabs, and my crabs love trying out all of my new creations. I started collecting plants for my pet degus, actually, and I realized many of them could be given to the crabs as well. I like giving t...

Hello Everyone! :D I have, at last, opened up my very own Etsy shop with my homemade hermit crab foods. Here she be: https://www.etsy.com/shop/UrbanHermits The highlight, of course, is the poop. Rabbit and guinea pig poop. My crabs go nuts for it! And my pigs and bunnies produce enough of it, so why...

mom23, I am so super jelly - both because you actually got your crabs, and because your lil' straw is so adorables :D When it comes to animal care, I can tell you that most people don't know how to properly care for most pets. People let cats wander outside, shortening their lifespans by nearly a de...

If someone provides a viable alternative I'm sure most people would switch and stop supporting her. It just doesn't exist. Exactly. I imagine this business takes a lot of space, time, and skills and comes with very little reward ( i.e. doesn't pay well) else somebody here would have started doing i...

Well, I wasn't expecting to be getting back to you folks so quickly. She promptly replied, explaining that there had been an email sent to those who had ordered Aussies saying there had been a delay and offering to ship the rest of their order first. She said the blues did very poorly, and she doesn...

Well. Pre-ordered at the end of May - 3 blues, 2 Aussies, 2 Cavs. She told me it would likely be the end of June the crabs would arrive because she wanted to ship them all together and there were delays with the Aussies. I'm like, okay, fine. I'm busy working all summer and although I keep an eye on...

I just put in my order! Two Aussies, three blues, two cavs. If I had more money I'd have gotten three of each, but I really can't afford it right now. Maybe next time she gets them in I will buy more. In the meantime, I'm glad there's a delay on the Aussies, as it gives me time to get a new tank and...

I should start telling people I'm training them for my secret agent army. :hlol: I love it. They could wear little suits, or some of them could have little parachutes to infiltrate enemy territory, and they would need fancy little cars, and... I am thinking faaar too much about this :D Generally pe...