HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I would say the same... Mine always seem to hide themselves when things start to get cold around the house.

Sorry for no pictures! It's been almost half a month now and they don't seem to be coming back ever since I began changing the water more frequently. I can confirm that they were food mites. They never seemed to emerge out of the water or the food, never on the glass or elsewhere.

I will post pictures soon, but from the looks of it; food mites look like the right answer! I did see some crawling on a tiny piece of fruit someone hid in the back when I first noticed the dots in the water.

Hello, I am fairly new to having hermit crabs; I have 4 and provide an ideal environment for them to live in (Large Tank, Deep Substrate, Fresh Food, etc.). A few weeks ago, I found these "White Dots" in large bundles floating around in my two water basins. These white dots seek to bundle into the c...