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by scarlet
Fri Jul 06, 2018 2:29 pm
Forum: Emergency
Topic: Pest control harm hermit crabs??
Replies: 2
Views: 908

Pest control harm hermit crabs??

In a few days I have to get my house sprayed for roaches and I have 8 hermit crabs and I don’t know if I should take them to my boyfriends house while they spray and for a few days until everything has settled and no longer in the air. Or should I leave them here I don’t know if the chemicals will h...
by scarlet
Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:48 pm
Forum: Emergency
Topic: Missing hermit crab
Replies: 3
Views: 1228

Missing hermit crab

So I have a total of 12 hermit crabs and one of them is missing. I got a baby strawberry hermit crab about 5 months ago and he right away started to bury himself. I didn’t think anything if it just thought it could be stressed or molting or something. Months go by and I hardly see him but I do. Abou...
by scarlet
Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:33 pm
Forum: Crab & Care Questions
Topic: Worried about my new crab please help
Replies: 4
Views: 498

Worried about my new crab please help

I have a new hermit crab and I don't know what is wrong with him he doesn't interact with the others and he is always buried and hardly ever goes out. He arrived with part of his a limb missing and it says to isolate them but I'm not sure of he is beging to molt or is dying and I don't know if I sho...
by scarlet
Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:04 pm
Forum: Emergency
Topic: dying or molting
Replies: 2
Views: 862

dying or molting

its been about three days since my little sister ordered her hermit crab online and received it but since it has been here its never out of its shell and is always buried and you can hardly ever see him or find him out of the sand. on the first night he hanged his shell and the next day and from the...
by scarlet
Wed Aug 09, 2017 7:30 pm
Forum: New Crabs and New Crab Owners
Topic: hermit crab hut help needed
Replies: 2
Views: 418

hermit crab hut help needed

so i just got three hermit crabs and one of them is really big and sadly none of my huts will let him in it. i was wondering if i could make a bigger hut for him with an empty baby formula can? if i clean it out really good could it work as a hut without harming them?