HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Yeah I wondering the same thing. one of my crabs, Midnight, just today change 5 or more times, if you include going back to his original shell. And he pulled one of my other crabs out of its shell twice! Hopefully he has calmed down now. It's so crazy right now. I've had 3 come up from 5-3 month mol...

Omg the other hermit crab, that I thought was dead, just came up!! It's been almost 5 months (which I take as a pretty long time for a medium sized crab that I had for 6 months before) I'm so happy and I'm thinking about upgrading my tank. I really hope I can because my best friend has 9 hermit crab...

So last December I had gotten a large hermit crab then it buried itself for like, 3-4 months then come to find out that it was dead! I hadn't touched it or anything, assuming it was molting, but I saw his shell had moved a tiny bit so I looked and he had been dead a while. Like a long time. And one ...

Oh well in that case it's ok I thought they would hurt my crabs. Thanks!

So I was looking in my tank this afternoon and I saw a bunch of little white/gray dots moving around with little legs.... And this fast moving thing that was a light brown color. I'm so freaked out. Are these mites? And most importantly, HOW DO I GET RID OF THEM? I've always been grossed out by tiny...

Ok because last night she moved her hide and knocked it over and has dug under the water dish

How do I tell when she is done molting? For the past 2 nights she has been knocking over the cup hide

Ok thanks!

Yeah the isolation tank is always at 75 degrees and at 80% humidity. I used a plastic cup with a hole as a hide. For some reason she had started molting in a large shell in a decoration I made.

So I woke up in the morning and I see a sight that almost made me cry. Until I found out that my crab was probably ok. One of a medium crabs, Thing1, had my other, small crab, Pebble, in his grasp (pebble was a deep as she could be in her shell) then I saw the exoskeleton beside them. I was so scare...

So should I do the saltwater paste with all the wood I have in my tank?

Hi so I was looking around in my hermit crab tank and I noticed some white, stringy mold in my new cholla wood. I just now changed my substrate to Eco earth and added some sheet moss. How do I get rid of the mold? Anything that I can do so the mold won't grow back?