HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Love these answers thanks for all the help!

What kind of predatory bug can I safely put in my crabitat that will eat/decrease the population of food mites? I understand that food mites typically thrive in all crabitats but, I have an excessive amount and the entire walls on all sides of the tank are covered in them and it seems to be getting ...

Very interesting hah just wanted to make sure they were ok

This may sound like a really strange question especially the way it was written but I've observed some odd behavior from a few of my hermit crabs that looks too me like they are possibly itchy?? What I am seeing is some of my hermit crabs will sit still and move in and out of their she'll part way v...

Thank you for the reply it makes it a little less terrifying knowing that it's a common problem and that they are harmless

I have had the same problem in my crabatat multiple times and it stresses me out so badly I almost can't handle it every year I get some sort of mite living in their home it seems to be the same kind Everytime they are white, about the same size as a grain of sand and ,they run EXTREMELY fast. They ...

I wish I had that courage they just multiply so fast and run fast too. It freaks me out every time I pick up a hermit crab and two or three crawl on my hand. I have to compulsively wash my hands 6 times after

Springtails/fungus gnats are back I deal with this yearly in the spring and I have to say its my least favorite thing about owning hermit crabs. The problem is how fast these creepy crawlies multiply they jusy weird me out! Any ideas on how to exterminate the pest besides my usual dumping replacing ...

Thankyou for the advice on baking the wood. I will fill out the emergency template as soon as I can. My largest may not be jumbo I will take his pic as soon as I can, I will have to keep him in a 10 gallon until I can get out to buy him something bigger to live in this Wednesday. I had to call it qu...

Hello today I am doing an emergency evacuation of my hermit crabs large plastic Rubbermaid home. In the past few months I am embarrassed to say that I have not been caring for for my hermitcrab as well as I normally would do to extreme stress in my life. The evacuation is mostly due to an over abund...

Ok I have to ask, has anyone seen the dr.pepper hermitcrab commercial yet?

http://youtu.be/wrRd_Kk_kWw

Haha

Group behavior status: No I have never seen one of my hermits pull a limb off another or a pull one out of its shell But as a side note,the other strange behaviors I observe frequently are: crazy she'll swapping that makes it very difficult to tell my pps apart. It is constant shell swapping amongst...

bufflo burger & bussel sprouts sometimes I like to share my own dinner with them