HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Just to give an update, I looked at him last night and he's definitely molting! Saw the old exo and everything. In fact, it looks like he's eaten a good portion of it. It's really, really cool that he picked a molting spot where we can see him. Thanks again for the info.

Curlz, This is so amazing and gives inspiration to all of us. Great, great work. I think someone reposted this on another forum earlier, and like I told that person, after reading earlier today about the passing of Crab Kate, this is just the sort of thing I really needed to read. I was so bummed ou...

We had him for about a week in a critter keeper until we got home from vacation. Then another few days in the 10 gallon before he went down. I've been checking on him sporadically throughout the night and he's definitely alive and well. I can hear his shell and legs scraping the bottom of the tank a...

He's been under for about three weeks.

Some of y'all may have seen the pics of my new crabitat I recently "finished." I moved three of our four crabs into it successfully, but couldn't move the fourth because he was dug down in the old tank - a ten gallon that I, admittedly, made some rookie mistakes with. For example, I used a mix of ca...