HCA: Hermit Crab Association

It's plain old quartz sand and will be safe for the crabs. That said, buying a 50lb bag of playsand from HomeDepot/Lowe's for $5 will be a much better deal than $13 for a 10lb bag of the NatGeo Golden Sunset Sand.

Love it! You know you're a crabber when you see plastic bins and immediately picture a second level set up in the crabitat !!

Awwww! Look at those hairy legs and pointy nails on Brutus! It's always such a relief when they have a success molt .

I was thinking the coated wire kind like this one, my crabs could easily get traction on the outside. Side note, I don't know if my crabs are heavy enough to spin it! [emoji1] The coated wire doesn't spin as freely as the plastic wheels. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170304/33d43c5ccf8159a38b2...

What a beautiful job you two did! Looking forward to the video of the process.

I'm also in Arizona (Phoenix area) and have been able to keep the 29g nice and cozy in the winter using an Ultratherm UTH. For those chillier nights, I drape a small throw blanket around the back, sides and rear top for an additional temperature boost.

I was cutting up cucumber for my Syrian hamster last night and decided to give a piece to the crabs. Charles Paris, my little guy, was the only one above ground and he immediately snatched the cucumber and was trying to drag it to the back of the tank. The piece was as large as he is so he ended up ...

Welcome aboard! Once you get your new friends settled in we'll want pics, of course .

Ditto re checking craigslist. Look for listings for "terrariums" as most of those tanks will come with a mesh lid.

Hi! I am in the process of setting up a larger tank for my crabbies and I am looking into a UTH. It's a 29 gallon tank, and we keep our house thermostat at 68-70 range. I am looking at an ultratherm 11x23" mat to put along the back side of the tank. Does anyone have experience with this, and if so ...

I, too, do the "surfboard" thing and when that piece gets worn down into a thin spike, I flake it with a fingernail to add into their dry base mix.

Simply gorgeous crabs and pics! They're getting big !

Just an idea for the cork round- on the end that will be on the sub cut an arch door so the crabs can use it as a hideout! I put moss in mine and they love it! I have mine sitting on end with cloth flowers poked into the substrate from the top, no doorway cut out. The crabs climb up the side of the...

Found the dish drainer tray post, complete with pics!
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If the link doesn't work (quite often my cut-and-pastes don't ), the topic is Food Dish on Second Level? in Crab Care, Health and Breeding August 2016.

Omg your crabs will LOVE the cocohut with the ladder, that's the cocohut I've had in there since August when I got them. They go nuts over the thing! I did have to cut off the ladder eventually because the rope and wool started to decay from the moisture, so keep that in kind lol. Other than that o...