HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Yay! Successful molt with regrowth = always very good news :D . Ditto what KellyCrabbieLove said: sometimes a newly-molted crab will be a little smaller until they "fatten up" but, as Ender expended extra energy to regrow her leg, she may not have grown any larger this time around. Probably~ I'm st...

aussieJJDude wrote:Aww; she look all cute and stuff! Beautiful crabbies you have there!

I think she's smaller than before. A bit odd considering she's already a little thing compared to Ark, but I like her new color. She's more colorful than before~

I am so freaking happy right now. My little one Ender just came up from her first molt! And better news, she regrew her missing leg! My first ever molt, and my little girl made it I have tears in my eyes I'm so happy and relieved She had been down for, what, a month or two? And she's barely half the...

Wonder if the shells remind them of their former home then :P Either way, Ark poked out of his shell when I went to spot clean ( He dumped out his food bowls. Again. And I cleaned up the poop in the shell bowl ) and wiggled his feelers at me before I started cleaning, so, at least he still seems hap...

I'll try 'talking' with him some when he's out ( He started eating again, I'm just wondering when he will be going down, since he dug a massive hole and sat there for a few hours before moving again ) and won't mess with him for the moment. They live in a 99liter, clear plastic storage crate, so I'm...

So, lately, Ark hasn't been doing much. Dumping out his food after eating, kicking sand into the water bowls, destroying the place basically, the usual thing, but, he's been hanging around in the 'shell bowl' ( An old plastic bowl that we weren't using anymore, properly rinsed out with scolding hot ...

Fuu, Ark doesn't want to go down, apparently, or a jinxed him. He was back up again, sitting by the little tunnel-thingy I have in there. I imagine it would take that long, even with Ender being so small, due to the leg and all. I wonder what it was though, what caused her leg to go missing.. A figh...

I hope I don't need to worry about telling Ark and Ender apart for a long while, considering their size differences. Ender is so tiny compared to the Monster of a TeddyBear Ark. Plus Ender hasn't changed yet, she stayed in her current shell despite the many little ones I had, she even ignored them c...

Just thought I would do a bit of an update on how everything is doing! I found Ender by accident when I was cleaning things / moving them around. Poor girl, she shrunk back in her shell. She certinally wasn't dead, but I don't think she was molting either. Was she about to molt perhaps / destressing...

My big boy Ark kept doing this after I switched him to the large tank. Him and Ender played around for a bit, then he noticed the freshly boiled and dried shells in the corner and just went crazy. He spent hours switching, I think, then finally picked one of the largest shells, which was surprising ...

I saw Ender! The movement of her shrinking into her shell ( She was in the shellshop, cleverly trying to diguse herself ) made me notice her when I was about to spray them. Now I'm confused. Was she just destressing the entire time? Or did she just do a really quick molt since I haven't seen her in ...

She isn't that big, maybe classified as a tiny or small, so hopefully it won't take too too long. And yeah, doesn't really help me though, and asking people if better than looking at a sheet because of all the variables that could happen that aren't counted.

Ark still hasn't gone down yet, though he's been hanging around an accidental collasped tunnel of Ender's ( I didn't mean to, but I was fixing something in there that Ark had moved around, so part of it is exposed. I've been able to mostly cover it up though so he can't get to it ) . His activity ha...

Like, I do scoop up poop and food Ark has pulled out of the little food-cups, but I would have to take the entire cup out in order to clean it off, due to where the poop is. And since it's a cup, there's a large space underneath it where she could have easily buried, or where a tunnel of hers could ...

Updates - Ender has been down for a few days now, I think it's safe to say that she might be going into a molt! Ark has been climbing up a cup with netting I put in the tank, and has been promptly pooping on it, and because it's inside the sand, I'm worried I'll disturb Ender if I take it out to cle...