HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Funny you should say that about captivity… This is the guy who was always trying to get out - and once, managed to do so - and get halfway across the house AND downstairs before we found him! Still not sure how that happened. But that was many moons ago - not sure what caused this bout but we have, ...

We got rid of the moss, but it said 'Terrarium Moss' and it was a regular green moss. It was supposed to help with humidity. He might have gotten an injury because he DID molt when we first got him - but he was in that shell for many months, and he seemed to want to go back to that shell, but it was...

We posted on here when our crab was naked - and desperately tried to reshell him. He kept going from shell to shell, unhappy with all of them, and now he is … I guess he's dead. We don't know what the issue was, because it was quite sudden and we had a fairly flawless crabitat. We didn't have saltwa...

He left his shell several days before we found him like this. So I have one person saying yes, dead, and the other saying molting. See how this could be a problem? I have no idea….

How long should we wait for a hermit crab, out of its shell, to show signs of life? We were assuming ours was dead, but it does *not* have a death smell. It hasn't moved even one millimeter in a week. It's all balled up and had buried itself under a log (without its shell). We'd like to bury it if i...

We have moved the heater to the side of the tank - much closer to the thermometer, and also 2/3 of the heater is above the substrate, and now the thermometer says it's 42 degrees in there. There's NO WAY it's 42 degrees in there. So we are getting a new thermometer. And we have put in instant ocean ...

My husband insists that the heater installation REQUIRES us to keep the heater on the bottom of the tank - and if we move it, it won't stick anymore. (We tried to restick one when we moved them from a smaller tank to this one.) Our house is always at least 70 degress (and was 75-80 in the summer bec...

I posted on here a few weeks ago, when our crab was naked and running from shell to shell. He finally disappeared and we thought he was molting - didn't see him again until last night, we found him under a log and, from what we can tell, quite dead. This is the second crab (of five) that we've lost ...