HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Just wanted to give everyone an update that was listening. Henry came up to play a few hours ago. He looks very healthy and happy! http://imgur.com/mB2Ks The hole he came up from. Kind of hard to see. http://imgur.com/KA1c3 Happy Henry! He ate an entire piece of popcorn in a little under 4 hours! ht...

Unless the sand is drying out you'll want to avoid spraying water near where they are buried. If you need to raise the humidity try an all-over light misting of dechlorinated water. You don't want there to be too much water that runs down into their cave, just enough to not let it dry out. You won'...

What are the updates on this? Mine dig all the time, especially Yoshi. He digs down and I can hear and sometimes see him excavating a complicated tunnel all day long. Then he comes up and digs another one somewhere else. I think he just likes digging. Yoshi kind of sounds like my Hippo. Hippo has a...

My smallest crab recently didn't survive his molt. This was mostly due to a number of issues with my crabitat. In order to make sure my other two quater sized crabs didn't suffer the same fate I completely revamped my crabitat. One of the biggest improvements was adding enough substrate for them to ...

Out of the two I have there is one that is really shy. When I pick him up he hides in his shell and it takes him a good five minutes before he'll come back out. He is also very "destructive". He likes to dig big mounts of sand and dirt. I call him Hippo