HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Yes I have the Sub deep enough I have a small tank 10Gallons so the 2 bags made plenty there is 6 inch of substrate. I only have the 2 crabs and both are maybe medium size no bigger. Usually every other day or so I would spray the sand down with a water sprayer just listing the surface. It wasn't as...

well I watched over the crabs not sure how long this would take to happen if it does. but I didn't see any marks or dots on the one crab who has hung around surface all day and night long. The other crab our original loves to dig and he completely buries himself for some reason he fills on the dirt ...

Thanks, Yeah 1st time they Molted or went to molt and 1 went down next day the other did and we only had crabs maybe 2-3 weeks but the 1st day we put in the correct substrate and proper depth down they went. We went out and she picked out another new crab today so she has 2 again and superman has an...

Now I am concerned.. Last thing I want to do is hurt the little guys. You are correct that HCP uses salt water already this was the 1st time I had to rewet the entire cage I figured Salt water was best to not have issues with fungus etc... Didn't think about the effects on the crab. As for Spraying ...

The crabs are actually my daughters, She took one crab from a friend (we called Superman) he had a superman shell. Needless to say the friend wasn't allowed to have the crab back and here we were stuck with it. I wasn't too happy not at all... After some punishment for bringing home a pet and realiz...

Any Idea's what might have happened if he decomposed or other crab ate it? Always have good food and constantly eating it always see that crab in food dish in evenings or near it? or did I simply miss the body?? There is no smell coming from crabs tank

Hi everyone I purchased 2 Bags of substrate from Hermit crab Patch. I would every other day or so mist the surface with fresh water but I guess just over time eventually bottom starts to dryout. I just completely emptied all sand from cage a re mpoistened the sand using Salt water. I read somepoepl ...

Well Thanks for all the help everyone, Unfortunately I emptied out all the sand into 2 buckets as I was emptying from cage I was going as slow as I could slowly pushing sand out of corner of the cage as to let it waterfall into bucket using my hand to guide the sand but I found no body dead or alive...

Ok so oddly enough this morning I found our missing crabs shell just sitting in a small dug hole. it looks like our other crab maybe dug the shell up but IDK for sure. Just that our other crab has dug himself back under ground as he usually does. But anyway the shell of the missing crab has somehow ...

Ok So are one small crap is still down and my daughter is very concerned and at this point I am too. Since the beginning our other small crab has now went down to molt and came back up twice. I have been waiting for the other small crab to come down as I want to dump sand into bucket and re moisten ...

yes, very true I am liking filling huge holes every day or else there is holes every where and big mounds of sand pilled up lol

Thanks, yeah the one crab keeps digging big holes in same 2 spots and I keep filling them in. Main one is in the hut which isn't a big deal but when both crabs were up that's where they went and with the big hole not sure both would fit.. but thanks for advise so basically its just to keep me busy h...

My one crab has recently came up from molting. and is digging holes every where. mostly in same spots I keep filling them in lol. Is there anything wrong with filling in the holes each day. Before I got the correct crabitat set up we had a big plastic house with store sold sand. I than read about ev...

thanks for the reply's I will wait longer and give the little guy some more time

we have 2 crabs both went underground end of November the little bigger one has come back on Christmas but the smaller one still hasn't surfaced worse part is they went under 1 did one day than the smaller the next but I have absolutely no clue or sign where the smaller one went down at. The bigger ...