HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Hey folks, I'm Daniel. Me and my bud Chris are hermie maniacs and we wanted to introduce you to our project "Under the Dome". It's a 115 gal tank we built from acrylic to meet all the hermie living requirements for straws. The acrylic tank allowed us to build a mini aquarium and mount perches by dri...

I followed your advice and looked into acrylic crystals, and they are absolutely exquisite. Some artists carve faces into the acrylic pieces. "Lucite", or acrylic crystals, are translucent and scatter the light nicely throughout the medium. When shining a light beneath the piece, it adds an ambient ...

Reptile city: http://www.reptilecity.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=reptiles&Category_Code=HERMIT I don't think there are any others that sell and ship directly to your home. Segrest Farms ships their products to pet stores. You'd have to find a store they ship to in order to buy...

ok good point, I'll switch over the heat pads to the side. Regarding the selenite, the more I think about it, I agree that it sounds like a bad idea. The selenite might alter the substrate's pH by adding more calcium into the substrate. If anything should be put in the tank it should be completely i...

I was looking into purchasing a tall glow selenite tower for my tank (to add some "wow" factor to to the display), it would basically be buried under the substrate and the LED would be underneath the tank with my heat packs. A selenite crystal is basically a huge block of calcium sulfate found in ca...

wow this absolutely inspiring! someday, when my moving situation stabilizes, I'd love to follow in your footsteps and make an exquisite megatank like this.