HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Thanks! And yeah, the last time he went under he was down for six weeks. I'm not sure he actually molted that time though.

I have one fairly large hermie named Helix. I don't think he'd be considered a jumbo yet, but the shell he is currently in was listed as having a 1 1/16 inch opening when I bought it (I got it from The Hermit Crab Patch so I think it's a pretty accurate measurement). It was WAAAYY too big for him wh...

Hello everyone! My name's Elizabeth and I've loved animals my whole life. I was able to convince my not very enthusiastic mom to let me have hamsters and a rabbit when I was younger and in high school she let me get cats. Then late in my freshman year of college after a set of biology class experime...

OK. Thank you! I don't think I can look under the tank so I'll just wait out another month.

I'm really new to taking care of crabs. I got one (his name's Helix) near the end of my freshman year in college from my biology class and had no idea how to take care of him. I got online and learned about the conditions he'd need, but I didn't have a lot of room in my dorm so the poor guy had to s...