HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I don't think I have any blues left, the last one has been down for months.

I found putting them on a timer helped me a lot. It runs for 30 min on, 30 min off. It gives the crabs a bit of a break and the water doesn't have too much time to sit between cycles. This also give the sand around the pools time to evaporate a bit and keep a good medium level of saturation.

do you run water dish bubblers non stop? The splash from those builds up quickly.

There's a mall store here that has crabs in those things.... upsets me so much.

Cute pics!

You may want to wait until there's a bad fishy smell before you toss him out. Sometimes they seem dead but are not. Also remember the crabs you get from the same store are most likely just as stressed and may have a similar survival rate as your first ones. Make sure you disturb them as little as po...

I would try to stress him as little as possible, just keep the status quo with as little interaction with him as possible. He's probably stressed from being moved out of the wild.

Yup, mine has started. I've posted pics of this time before where my tank looks like a roller-coaster for ants around the glass. Digging under the water dish, so annoying!

the ruggie sounds like PPs, the but rest could very easily be the aggressive E. I had to re-home my really bad one

We know why people don't do it, but you said a new business would never get off the ground because we let her get away with it, and I pointed out that that is incorrect. We would support someone else doing it, despite how tough it may be.

SachOfSCP wrote: Do you guys not realize that even a company who can conduct business more efficiently will never get off the ground as long as people are willing to put up with LHC?

If someone provides a viable alternative I'm sure most people would switch and stop supporting her. It just doesn't exist.

Blues are so delicate

So the second mamma held her eggs too long and now they stink and she's dropping them in the sand and eating them... I tried to drop some int he water but they are not viable at all.

I guess I missed my only chance this season while on vacation

those are all blues from what I can tell, mine were a big range of colors. But the ugly bodies give it away

yes they can be very brownish, mine were a range of light blue, purple anddirty bluish brown.

I have a self cut plexiglass cover on the front half and the light fixture has electrical tape covering all but 2 air slots. I use electrical tape or clear packing tape around any gaps and the crabs don't climb up there so I don't worry about them eating tape.