HCA: Hermit Crab Association

i dropped a bit of shrimp in with the surf n turf. the cuttlebone is also from hcp, honey flavored, gave a nice scoop.

sounds reasonable. he looks really pink, but strong enough to peek out, so that gives me hope. maybe molted a couple of days ago and was working on the last bits of exo, just a couple of bits left really. so crossing my fingers that he ate it up and not anyone else.

fun fun. that is a pic of a crab behind. as I sat at the computer searching for other posts that might give me a clue, my son noticed that the part was no longer visible. since we had three other crabs in the moss pit i decided to intervene. the crab(Ron) molted. he is so very pink but safe in his s...

Looks like my littlest pp may be molting in the moss pit. I think I interrupted him just before he began when I adjusted the driftwood that supports the shell shop. He dashed from beneath the wood on up into the moss pit. and now my son just observed this: http://i41.tinypic.com/34fjyg5.jpg how migh...

OK we have pics! My 7yr old son's fingers holding the crabbies so I can play photographer. So we are now missing one little pp, Ron who has changed shells and gone missing somewhere... Bumblebee picked a gorgeous shell: http://i42.tinypic.com/qs7gir.jpg Here he is: http://i39.tinypic.com/34fej9f.jpg...

Ok finally have some pics! Steve chose a new shell last night-more than twice the size of his original! he's being very shy http://i44.tinypic.com/c71wp.jpg He has grown so much! very hairy little legs and sharp little feet! oops have to reformat other pics.. wil have to get to that in a little bit!

Huraay! So as some of you may remember, we brought home 4 small straws two weeks before Christmas. the fourth molter came up just now. Steve, the most recent emergence, I think pulled a back to back molt. He was down for three weeks and then up for four days and then down again for about 4 weeks. An...

interesting...maybe I'm thinking too much like a human and just to sand/EE mix and stop making it harder than I need to?

Bumblebee! So Bumblebee is in fact up and about! Carl seems very happy to see his friends.Godzilla has been shell shopping but no commitment yet. Steve is still under somewhere. I really want to do a deep clean and get the calci sand out of there! but i don't want to disturb Steve. I was thinking of...

Aha! it's Godzilla! He just emerged fully! Hurray!
So now is it necessary to bathe him or just plop into the saltwater pool?

I have the temp at 82 during the day and 78 at night.Using a red night bulb 50w (in a clamp light about 4-6inches above the tank) light on all the time and a standard cfl (no heat) lamp for daylight hours. before I was using a reptile day bulb 40w and it was just a little too warm. Daytime was going...

I have to thank everyone on this forum once again for teaching me patience. As some of you may recall, my sons bought 4 straws before Christmas and we did our very best with information we had to get the little guys into the best home we knew how. Of course now we find that they are tough little bug...

grats on the success! I'm still waiting for two to emerge from December. It's an agonizing wait.
post pics of your little guys!

Carl is small. In fact he's the smallest of the four straws we picked up. I need to get a pic of him next to something for perspective. his current shell has maybe 13/16 opening?

Oh excellent! thanks for that! and no, I know nothing about these little critters, other than what I can find either here or the net.