HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Thanks all! He is in ISO now. The heat mats were turned off in summer when it would get pretty darn hot at times and the crabs were staying on the side of the tank away from the mats. When they were on it was 80’ish and when off it was about 76 in the tank. 76 was a little below but since they were ...

I probably should have stated more clearly. When I refresh I take the coconut fiber and poop that is dry at the surface scoop off a bit and then mix it all back with moist coconut fiber and add whatever moisture is still needed until it is moist enough and at 12-14". 1. What kind of substrate is use...

I need to refresh my substrate badly. We have had the house not he market and it's been crazy. Anytime I have a chance to change out the substrate to add back in moisture and depth at least one crab is down molting so I wait. I found one crab harassing another shell-less crab yesterday. The crab w/o...

That is so hard! I can see spike but can't tell if all is ok. Cheetah (who has now been renamed Rogue) is gone like the night! Hopefully he isn't up to mischief!

Spike hasn't. I am afraid Cheetah would attack Spike. He has just been very stand offish and RUNS every chance he gets. LOL mostly I just don't know him well so haven't been able to establish a great relationship with him. Spike is one of our original crabs and is such a sweet heart I am just a bit ...

I have a crab that just molted (lets call him Cheetah because I can't keep track of my sons names so I gave them my own). The whole time he molted Spike was at the top of the tank. When Cheetah finally emerged (from what I could tell) Spike left him alone. Well then Spike started digging and has bee...

We have one crab that was molting for a while. He came back up but now I think his tank mate is molting they have been tearing up the tank lately. Not sure if I should try to iso the one that may be molting or leave him alone. We also got 2 new crabs and had them in an iso tank. One of them attempte...