HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Well it turned out she was no longer with us. I decided that the crabs would be better suited in a home with people who could better control the temp and humidity and who had the resources to do so. I miss my little crabs but I couldn't give them what they needed.

Alright thanks guys. My attention has turned back to my Ecuadorian crab. She doesn't seem to have moved and looks like she has completely fallen out of her shell. She doesn't seem to be doing the same slight twitch she was doing before and it doesn't look like she has any sign of an exo. When I move...

They have gotten along fine before but all of a sudden the bigger pp was standing in the entrance of the hut and the smaller pp wanted to enter. The bigger one initiated a feeler fight and the smaller tried to enter and the bigger lurched towards the smaller one and knocked him over. This happened t...

I just witnessed my biggest crab picking on my other purple pincher...my fiance separated the two but now I'm beginning to wonder if my Ecuadorian is really molting or dying? The night before I saw her out of her shell my bully purple pincher was in her hut pushing her around. I'm wondering if maybe...

This is my first molt...do they change color when they molt?

She is under a bottle right now so I'll have to put water and food in an eggshell...the way it is now she doesn't have access to anything because I'm trying to keep the others away from her. Its only a 10 gallon tank.

Yes that is how she looks...I guess some part of her abdomen is still inside of the shell but very little. She is still under her coco hut with a huge botter protecting her from my two purple pinches...I'm afraid that is all I can do at the moment as I don't have enough resources to set up my new ta...

So I've written about my elecuidorian crab in previous posts. She hasn't been eating or coming out of her hut. I found her this morning and she fell out out of her shell!! Idk if she was attacked or if she's molting or what but she's too weak to even move. What do I do?!?!?

^ This. People are clueless enough to try and heat a tank full of water with a UTH. It would lead the to the UTH overheating, and the glass possibly breaking because of the massive amount of cold water that needed to be warmed. Ahh. Well in that case I may upgrade from my 10 gallon tank. Ugh. And I...

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"Yea....I'm climbing out of the tank...so what? Now......umm....can you help me down? I have a wedgie in my shell and I'm hungry."

Omg!! This is hilarious!!

But they are aquariums is that OK? Uth directions are specific to terrariums only...

I put the smaller one on the warm side of the tank and draped a small fleece blanket around the top of the tank. The temp bumpeD up to 76 so far with the help oof that pad and the blanket. :banana: but I also just bought another pad I was going to put on the back to cover most of the tank to get the...

Well before I even read all this I just bought a uth, its definitely not big enough for the whole tank but its all we can afford D: anyway can you actually put a uth on the side of the tank then insulate it with the cardboard/foil thing? I actually just did the same thing...I have a small fleece bl...

I have a heat lamp on one side of my tank that fluxuates between 70-74 degrees. I just put a 1-5 gallon zoo med heater on that side hoping to get it up to 80 degrees constant. My fiance said that the cooler side of the tank is at 65 degrees...very bad. Should I put a bigger pad on that side to tey t...

I have a new update sort of unrelated to the heating. Lol my E has been moved by my fiance (not knowing that he probably shouldn't have bugged her). But he put her in the moss pit on the warmer side of the tank. The humidity started to fall to 70 (is this too low?) So i spraysprayed the tank includi...