HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Cool. I guess I figured the 2 that did molt would come up more often. Oh well! We'll wait some more! I'll just have to be content with the fact that they're happy with the sand ha!

We got our first one in early June. Adopted her from CL. We got the other 4 a week later from 2 diff pet stores, both of which had TERRIBLE tanks. I'm sure my tank was heaven. The pet store ones ate and explored for a few days then disappeared and we haven't seen much of them since. The 2 crabs that...

I actually had to sit up late and wait for the crab to come out so I could move it to the new tank. That's funny you say that. My daughter has been sooooo patient with her crab, Ruby, who's been down molting for 5 weeks. It was awesome that Ruby left us a window so we could see the whole thing. But...

Thanks Kuza :) 1. Substrate is 60 lbs of playsand with 1/2 a brick of EE all dampened with mild saltwater. 4.5 inches left side which slopes up to a little more than 6 inches on the right side. Sandcastle consistency. 2. Tank temp ranges slightly from 75-82 depending on our apt temp. I have a used U...

How long can crabs stay underground just tunneling? I'm pretty confident that one of my small Es is molting but my other 4 crabs, 2 of which have molted successfully, are tunneling and have been for weeks. Jasper (sm-med E) has been up once in 5 weeks and has been tunneling the rest of the time. I c...

One of my medium PP's did that as well. We had recently brought her home from the pet store. She spent a couple days checking out the tank then changed out of her old, ugly shell into the prettiest shell in the tank. I could see right away that it was going to be too small but she insisted. For abou...

ROFL! This whole feed has me laughing so hard! :hlol: I had put about 15 rollies into my old 20 gal. I upgraded to a 29, moved as much of my old substrate over as was clean enough to and now need to get more rollies. I only see a couple roaming around. I had to laugh a little at that website selling...

thank you! I'll start rotating through what I have from those lists right away. If I give them egg shells, how long can that stay in the tank before I change it out for new shells? Especially if none of the crabs are coming up to eat?

The 2 PPs are mediums, one E is Sm-Med I guess and the other 2 Es are small. I'm still pretty new to this ;) what are the best sources of calcium and protein? I saw one on the small Es eating one of the 3 sand dollars I have in there,. He changed shells the same day and dug down the next day. I have...

I have 2 PPs and 3 Es. I just upgraded to a 29 with 6 inches of substrate about 2 weeks ago. All 5 of my crabs dug down about 3 or 4 days after the upgrade and only 2 have come up since (1x each). I know 2 of them are just tunneling and haven't seen the other 3. Those 3 were the ones I suspected nee...