HCA: Hermit Crab Association

My one crab is very strange. We got some new shells for him because he clearly wasn't interested in any of the ones that we had in there before. We also completely rebuilt their crabitat this past week. So anyway...every other day or so for the last 10 days he has switched into the same new shell, t...

Hi everyone. I've had three small hermit crabs since about the second week of November. After we got the three of them, the first night or two they were very active. Then, two of them disappeared completely, and the third one seemed to just kind of lightly bury himself in the sand about halfway, and...

Okay, I've been misting the last two nights and the hygrometer seems to be working. I believe that it was stuck in the 80% position, and the humidity in the tank was actually much lower. I've got a screen top, but I cut two pieces of Lexan (RC car body plastic sheets) to cover the screen completely,...

Okay, humidity may have actually been an issue. After seeing the post last night, I ended up coming home from work and pulling my hygrometer from the crabitat. It showed 80% humidity, and I know the thermometer on it works because we had a bulb burn out the other day and in the hour it took us to ge...

Hi everyone I've had a couple of new crabs down for a molt for a while now. I will admit I'm new to this, and I've read as much as I could. Tonight, though, a thought popped into my head. I've monitored humidity in my crabitat daily, and it's regularly up near 80% or so. I rarely end up having to mi...

They have a cave that's big enough for all three of them, a big piece of wood that's angled into the other corner that can cover them, and the back is some reptile climbing "wall" so that's like a giant cave in that corner, too. Should I add another spot? Humidity hovers right at 75-80% When it's co...

Well, the third crab went under about a week ago. However, last night and tonight ONE of them has been out and moving around. Last night it came out, ran around for a bit, climbed a bunch of stuff, then went back and buried itself again. Tonight it was out and by the water dish getting some water, a...

Going on four weeks...still no sign of them. Getting a bit worried now.

Okay.

I will keep watching...and waiting.

My crabs have been buried for two weeks now. The third one has moved around a little bit, but not much. I see him moving his eyes and antennae every now and then.

At what point in time should I become worried about the ones that are buried?



Thanks.
Jeff

Thank you. They are probably about nickel sized right now, I'd guess. Their shells are definitely the ones that would be "small" at the stores. We have it at that depth because we thought 50 pounds of sand would be too much, so we went with the 25 pounds. When we order more sand, I'll make sure to l...

It's dampened. I can form it into shapes, so I believe it to be the right consistency. I think the substrate is okay for now, as we went with the smallest crabs we could find. It LOOKS about as deep as the crabitats that I see online that are "correct" setups. Of corse, it's a bit deeper in a few sp...

Hi everyone. My name is Jeff. My wife Cathy and I recently added three hermit crabs to our family, which already consists of three cats and three dogs. We did a lot of research and reading before buying them, and had their crabitat all set up and ready to go by the time we got them home. They don't ...

Hi everyone. My wife and I have three new hermit crabs. They are our first crabs, and we read and read and read as much as we could before we got them. We have them in a 10 gallon tank with about 5.5" of substrate that consists of sand from HCP and some sand that came in our starter kit. It's also g...