HCA: Hermit Crab Association

rust for anything i'd say is not good just in general, but sometimes its just an eye sore, far as i'm aware, it seems to be up in the air on the rust thing. I'm sure someone will chime in. I went so out of my way to use anything metal, and then slowly have introduced some things in, don't get me wro...

dollar store live it learn it love it. :p i have tons of plastic plants in mine, some with metal inside some without, some of the ones with metal the crabs love to peel off the plastic, so there's some metal showing, but i'v enever seen any issues etc, some of the plants have some rust on them but i...

Very cool, your false bottom tank etc, all looks identical to mine!! sweettttt.. I've got some suction cup hooks i bought from the dollar store, like 2 for a buck,they are amazing! they're the 3rd different setup of suction cup hook things i've gone through/tested and the best by far (in regards to ...

marbles seem to work the best for me as they are all the same size, so the water still sits level in the top container. still have to apply a little pressure to the bottom container so it doesn't try to come up with the little amount of suction that there is created. http://gmccloud.com/container1.j...

I'll have to check them out when they're back up. I defeinetely need to add more ready made mixes with tons of stuff that i'm too lazy to put together.

Figured i'd throw in my recent interaction with adding a UTH to the back of my tank. I was ranging anywhere from 76-85, now with the 47x11 on the back, it ranges from 83-88 on the substrate and up to -95 on the 2nd level under the lights. All in all it seems to be working great, the extra heat has m...

so i finally attached my ultratherm, 47x11 on yesterday. i just slapped it on the back and used some packing tape to hold it on, it's not 100% flat by any means, and maybe like the bottom 2 inches are covered by a piece of cardboard i had covering the substrate. The temperature would peak out at 82 ...

Got a ceiling climber. And one of the straws waiting for that beast of an E. To leave the food bowl http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/06/08/ee4b8a73491bd62956a95d291193e85b.jpg This is far as he fits in his shell but won't leave it http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/06/08/041317c67c43472da9b9886d7d81...

those e's look awesome!

I don't know honestly how many are in there. I never really kept track. I think there are 6-7 straws, 3 e's (rescued one last week from sure death) , couple large pp's and a handful of micros. haven't had any issues really or anything, with tons of places to climb and hide, and the water, they all s...

NICE! i usually have to re-adjust/re-attach my suctions cups about once a week or so. the crabs either get crabnails behind the suction and slowly rip it off. since they all have needlefingers!@!@!! and sometimes the ones above the pools will start to slip some with all the humidity, in fact one sli...

I got up randomly last night figured i'd check out the crabs. as they're always up to stuff at night. sure enough they were all over, even some of the small guys i picked up in the past month or so were up from molting too. dont think i got any pix of them though, they're too fast, and run away with...

ditto what they said. they'll absolutely love it! but be careful of mold and or food getting in there.

after a brief encounter with dollar store coco fiber pots, i don't think i'd use em unless they said they're for pets, it didn't smell super bad, but it did smell a little different then my coco fiber wall i have, that i haven't used. Even if its not in the dollar store, they may have put chemicals ...

i hear you're dilemna, here's a link to what i did... long story short i used pipe about 1 and 1/2 to 1 and 1 3/4 inch wide i think, and about 3 inches tall http://hermitcrabassociation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=101370&p=929270#p929270 if i had to do it again i'd probably go with a pipe a bit s...