HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Good news is he stayed in a shell all night and all day yesterday.I think he chowed down on some peanut butter and ate honey but didn't touch anything else I offered. Funny thing is the big claw was missing a part of the dark red exo on the bottom on the pincher and now it suddenly has it and its da...

The pincher is hollow and every one has all of their pinchers counted for ! My poor little naked crab is isolated in a 10g tank and keeps going from shell to shell then it rests and wanders around more.He has even eaten some peanut butter. Its like he wants to be naked or can't find a shell? He goes...

Ok so I think all of my crabs have gone crazy. So after calming down I pieced together what happened or may have. My active crab buried itself for two weeks and my aggressive crab picked a fight to steal his shell.My active crab vacated his shell moved into the first shell it found and the bully bur...

The molted crab can retract into its shell though it hasn't come out so I don't know if it's able to walk about yet.And the other crab decided to bury itself in the exact spot the other crab was and has now dug under the shell as though its going to molt..so maybe it just wanted that spot to molt an...

I had a crab that was buried and I woke up this morning to see that it was in a different shell which was upside down on the other side of the tank. Another crab I have that has been in a shell too small is now in the spot where the molter was buried and is examining the empty shell.My freshly molte...

One of the crabs I bought was active and very vivid colored.He has hair on his legs and all black tips but I did not notice how bad his shell was. It is so badly chipped and cracked that I can not tell what type or size the opening is. He isnt able to fully retract into the shell either and he wont ...

I just purchased 4 hermit crabs. This isnt my first run I owned one for 3 years when I was a teenager. I did not know half of what I know now though! I also have a large animal family of 2 fiddler crabs,a bird,dog,rabbit,dwarf hamster,and several fish.