HCA: Hermit Crab Association

How do you know a crab is really dead? He has a slight odor but it's not as bad as when i had a crab die in the spring. His eyes are black (i don't know if they change when they die) and when i picked him up planning to take him out side and bury him, he didn't come out of his shell. Like he is limp...

Ok so actually most my little crabbies are about 5/8 inch opening except my big guy who is 3/4 inch opening.

They are probably smaller than one inch openings. The last time i bought shells i think i was looking at 1 inch and a little bigger for my newest crab because he's a big guy in comparison to the others. And whatever size i got for him was way to big for even him to need any time soon so that's proba...

1. What kind of substrate is used in your tank and how deep is it? Play sand (baked all of it when I got it). Its deep enough for all of my crabs to completely bury themselves but it is not at least 6 inches at this time. I will be moving in 2 weeks and didn't want to make the tank too heavy but I ...

Just had to share... yesterday i took my daughter to a carnival and they have a game where you win a live hermit crab if you get the ball in a jar. We got our first hermit crab last year from this same carnival. Obviously i had to play and we won a hermit crab. He is bigger than our other 4 crabs bu...

Originally when i set up the 20g and made a cool little moss pit with a soap shelf from bed bath and beyond and a ladder from a bird toy up to it none of my crabs wanted anything to do with it. Now I'm pretty sure at least 3 of the 4 are buried somewhere in there. They won't come out! I have extra s...

Hello, I have had hermit crabs for about a year now. We got our first crab in June 2014. My daughter won a hermit crab at a fair. They gave us a tiny kritter keeper with a sponge, less than an inch of dry sand, a hermit hut, a shell food/water bowl (tiny), a small cup of pellet food, and a large pai...