HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I didn't mean to sound like I was saying you weren't already doing these things. :oops: I meant it takes time with diet/uvb and comes with growth. It does also come down to the individual crab too. oh no no! I know you didn't mean that! I mean i have racked my brain trying to figure out why they ar...

Mine were dropped anywhere up to 24 hrs before I saw them, I think you need to find them within a few hours of them being dropped in a bubble pool. The water was really gross when I found them.

since they have soft eggs i wasn't sure what the egg composition is, to know if i should feed more of that

Are they very small crabs? The younger ones tend to be lighter in coloring. Keep up on good foods and consider providing uvb lighting (some crabbers noticed a difference with it, especially with straws) and as they grow they should darken up. *I am not speaking from experience, only from what I've ...

unrelated to your post, but are you in the outer banks? I'm in jacksonville and have tons of extra crab stuff and some extra shells that would probably fit them if you happen to come to jacksonville ever. and a lot of extra natural foods, that i am literally never going to be able to get through the...

I'm not sure how they were packed since they were shipped to my local fish store with whatever else they ordered from them. When I went to pick them up they were in a big insulated box that they handed me and the crabs were already out running around. No one was missing any limbs and they all had na...

Had an egg drop in my exotic tank, did not know anyone had eggs so it was a surprise and they were dead when I found them, but I checked and have another with eggs now. I don't think i have the time to do anything as far as trying to attempted to raise zoea, but i am wondering the dietary needs for ...

Well I guess I will review them. I got 4 straws from them last year, through my local fish shop. The seemed healthy when I got them, although they were small and lacking in color, none being red, mostly candy cane striped and one was mostly all white, they were definitely straws. No idea if the colo...

my tiny pp's wore murex's, all of them at the same time put them on, but none of them are still wearing them and i've never had anyone bigger than a tiny/small pp wear it.

Just updating.
my 6 blues are still all alive, everyone has molted except 1 who is molting now.
the 2 straws are also alive still and have molted.
got the crabs in july.

This is where people are going to disagree. It's obviously best for the crabs if they are given a chance to molt, however, when it comes to 500 crabs, you are dealing with a way different situation. For example, I do not think my 8 crabs from lhc would have been better off left with 500 other crabs ...

My opinion is to go shallow substrate and just let them destress, otherwise you will have people waiting months and months and have no idea how many crabs you have. Plus if allowing room to molt, you have to stay within the crabs per gallon or close to it, I think there would be way too many chances...

This is great news! Since you said you've not had a confirmed molter before, I just wanted to say, the amount of exo he left is normal. I always find bits turning up and the bp is the most often, and leg tips or whole leg exo. Also i didn't even think to ask if when he wasn't moving, if he was tucke...

That happened to me as well, sort of My crabs shipped on a tuesday, her email said it was for THURSDAY deliver. USPS tracking said it would deliver Wednesday. wednesday came and went and no crabs. thursday came and the usps site still said they were in NY but updated the delivery date to FRIDAY. Wel...

you can offer something high energy for him, honey, would be the easiest offering. But banana, coconut, bee pollen, to help him out, as well as some calcium. Personally I would put some honey, coconut, and calcium powder in and crush up the extra exo he has and cover him with a hut and give him a fe...