HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I had to take out my shell shop! Mine would crawl around in it but would change shells. As soon as I put them on the floor 2 of them changed shells. I think its was because they moved them around a lot and couldn't do it in the shell shop. I am thinking of getting a bigger basket and not putting a ...

Despite my worries all 6 of my new PPs who went down to molt at the same time have all came up and are alive and healthy. The first stop every one of them made was the new and improved shell shop! It's bigger and offers more shells than before they all went to molt. Now I have one small crab in part...

My tanks is the most active it's ever been, I just had three of 6 molters come up from their first molt and they've all been changing shells almost daily it's quite exciting! It's 2 am here and I went to check on them out of curiosity as I heard then making a bit of noise. I was surprised to see thr...

I hate to double post but I would like to give an update. I added the 3rd brick of EE to the Tank. I returned the API for Instant Ocean. I also was able to return the All Living Things Food Medley and got Fluker's Medley Treat instead (no pellets). I found my shells and I'm working on a second story...

Really good looking crabs! Lots of neat shells! That's a really bright straw you have too!

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I really like what you did with the plants and egg crate. Where did you get those at? I recently got a 20L too and I'm very happy with the length of it. I too have thought about doing a second story over my water bowls for a shell shop/ moss pit.

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I will do just that then with the food, thanks for the suggestions! Cool, I figured things would change with time! I'll look into getting some instant ocean for me cabbies. As for the temperature is 88 in the light too hot? That's as hot as it gets under the light with a full 24 hours. I have consid...

I had planned on stopping the food medley soon it's what the store was feeding them and I planned on weaning them off of it as I supplied fruit to them. I was afraid such a sudden change of food would shock them. Maybe I'm just being silly. As for the salt I was under the assumption that Doc Welfish...

For food I'm using an All Living Things Food Medley with some calcium supplement. I also plan to give then some scrambled egg tonight with no salt or seasoning then remove it in the morning. Also have some fresh apple to serve them tomorrow. For salt water I'm using API Aquarium Salt that comes in t...

Hey everyone! Just a breif intorduction, I kept hermit crabs from 2004 to about 2010 (and used this site all along the way, and I'm very thankful for all the advice you guys have given me through the years.) when Gary that I had since the beginning passed away. He dug down to molt and never made it ...