HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Well, the logic kind of comes from Flamingos...
They inhabit salty brine pools and feed off fauna there.
Those alkali lakes are very laden with carbonates and bicarbonates...

That combined with their diet... and so the logic follows.

Thank you that was helpful

I was thinking Ionantha airplanes, and some kind of palm.

What palm tree would you guys recommend?
Sago? Neanthabella? Coconut?

Their favorite always seems to be shrimp of any kind (freeze-dried, or cooked), and bloodworms.

They also like melons most, not so many berries, and love figs.

Haha, Sorry, I have owned a reef tank for the last 10 years. RODI is a common term used on those forums. RODI is Reverse Osmosis Deionization. It differs from RO water due to the DI component. Essentially, the RODI unit makes lab-grade water. Water that is purer than rain water with little to no tot...

Does anyone keep live plants in their crabitat for their crabs?

I was thinking of using Bromeliads and other Epiphytes in the crabitat for them.


thoughts?
suggestions?

I have since read where that is common.
Initially when I set up the crabitat I just used RODI water to hydrate the coconut fiber with.

I mixed it half and half with aragonite sand as well.

Does it depend on the time of year?

I stop by probably once a month at my local Petco and Petsmart, which are all of 3 minutes away from me, and they only ever have PP's.

Where are you guys finding E's? I have been looking for the better part of a year for them. I was able to find strawberries online, but not E's.

Thanks!

I was baking it mainly because it has been about 8 months and the bottom of the substrate had gone stagnant.
I didn't want to chance any bacterial issues, and I added to much water to begin with so I thought baking/sanitizing it and drying it out to start over was the best option.

So, does anyone else do this? About once a week I usually will prepare just everything I can find on hand, bits by bits that is crab safe to give to them. On tonights menu for Protein: Egg shells Egg Whites Egg Yolks Scallops Shrimp Dried Krill Dried Bloodworms Dried Sushi Nori For Fruits: Mango Pin...

So I have had 2 PP hermits, and 2 med Strawberry hermits now for the last 8 months or so, all are doing well and have at least molted once, one has twice. Unfortunately, last week, I thought one of my strawberry hermits was in the moss pit molting, as the other one did. I was in the process of clean...