HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I think they are kind of like hamsters... they are without the ability to be able to teach them anything, but they all have different personalities and quirks, and once they figure out how to do something once, they don't tend to forget it. (A hamster will always remember a way to get out of their c...

Those behaviours sound normal to me :) The burried one may be molting, but she could also be desressing. If you see her again in a few days, then she was just destressing. But molting can take 5 weeks or more for a small crabby. As for the one who comes out only during the night. Perfectly normal, a...

Also, I LOVE their little crabby eyeballs!

Seaweed would give them a place to hide too so that maybe some could avoid being eaten

It owuld be cool if you could post a video of his silly movements

Yes! Tell your husband Happy Happy Birthday!!!!!!! And take good care of the crab babies, cause I'm sure you'll end up in the guiness book or world record or something from your hard work! LOL

build him a hermit crab lego sculpture. lol

I think sojmad got to something like 17 days before all hers died?? I think that might be a record that I know of in just a hobbyist. I read somewhere that around 14 days you should add the tiny shells for them, then they will start to go to land? Does anyone really know how old they are before the...

ooooh well he does eat and drink his salt and fresh water, but always goes straight back to his log to rest. So hopefully in time he will heal

My smaller E which I have only had for a couple of weeks (And who is not yet feeling comfortable in his new captve life) Doesn't really do a whole lot of anything, but what I find weird is how he never sleeps... My PP's sleep under some moss that I have laying under a plant on the substrate. They di...

"They are just being bumps on a log" .... LOL Love it! a least they are that! My PP's are never out when I'm aound, they just come out and empty the food dish at night when I'm sleeping, then back to snoozing all day long.

your crabbies are so darn cute! is this the farthest we have seen crab babies come in captivity? I hope so badly that they get to land crab stage.... I check this forum every day to see how far they have come Keep the crab baby pics coming!!!!!!!!!

I have only tried twice, and I had live ones that I drowned in hot water... Im scared to put them in live cause if they escape I will be totally creeped out Maybe I'll try a deeper ceramic bowl like you have and see how they like them.

I got my hands on some maple bark and leaves and they had a blast with them :) So, maple goodies, dried peppers, strawberry and pineapple, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, algae powder, spirinula powder and some calcium stuff :) and of course their nightly bowl of mealworms (which they clean out every ...

kip.rogers357 wrote:i like to add it to their food so I know that they are eating. either way is fine

Thanks, I'll try adding it I usually put egg shells in their bowl in case they dont know where to find the vuttlebone