HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Very valid points from all regarding the probiotic spray. I'll do a bit more research on it before purchasing

Yeah I cant figure it out either I've seen people post the picture directly on the post but when I looked into the forum for posting pictures it said to use a photo sharing server, and I have google photos so I used that- but it only posts a link that takes you to the picture. Thats funny I was thin...

Well Sonny and Cher always did have an up and down relationship didn't they? really cute names! Sounds like it really is a sit and wait and hope for the best situation? Because in theory this could happen accidentally just a crab burrowing around with a ton of substrate couldnt it? But she recovered...

I will chime in here with some of my own opinions. I have had my two crabs (Sonny and Cher) for 9 years now. Started with a 10 gallon, then 20 gallon (both with saran wrap lids), and now have a nice 55 gallon that has a plexiglass lid that was given to me. I am pretty casual about some things with ...

I'm so relieved to know it's ok not to scoop their poop! I make sure to get it out of the water dish, although the last 2 times it caused an "argument" when I nearly traumatized my big guy with my efforts to provide clean salt water. I've found areas where they seem to like to pile it up but it alw...

Thank you all so much for all the great advice. I have just upgraded to a 29 gallon tank with a stand. I moisten the substrate with freshwater dechlorinated. I’ve got the humidity and temperature in the right ranges and I think my crabs are happy. I have shells on the way from Richards. And while m...

Okay so someone in this post says using salt water can build up too much and then it can get in the substrate and become dangerous to the crabs? I wonder if thats in regards to the substrate consistency being compromised? Like could it make it like calcium sand that turns into cement like texture th...

I think this was the guidelines I used to learn how to sanitize and clean things

https://crabstreetjournal.org/blog/2015 ... -crabitat/

I copied and pasted this from the other thread I got it from, this lady (woman, girl,) seems very experienced and she's very nice too. "Those charts are excellent for gauging the overall size of your crab, but for determining shell size requirements more precisely many of us use calipers (this is th...

Welcome to the OP. I am fairly new here as well with the usual story of a few drinks on vacation and a few hermit crabs with a wired cage/sponge/pellets (all a waste of money). This is kinda off topic, but you are a new hermit crab mom... I've seen many of these... Where are the hermit crab dad's a...

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Those charts are excellent for gauging the overall size of your crab, but for determining shell size requirements more precisely many of us use calipers (this is the one I have: https://www.hermitcrabpatch.com/Shell-Opening-Measurement-Caliper-p/ac004.htm ). Online shell shops that cater to hermit ...

They came in the adoption packets along with the babies. Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk I'm definitely going to look for one online, could probably figure out how to make one myself too. Thats a great thing to have to track everyones growth coming in and as time goes on. a lot easier than eyeb...

Hello Curlysister, Thank you so much for the welcome :) I'm happy to be here, thanks for having me! Very glad to get more confirmation that he's not mid molt- phew! 10 days is a pretty long hang out session though isn't it? Or is that normal? Yeah and you know what I really did make a bad call out o...

Hey again just wanted to share the links in case you wanted to use them for reference Cholla or Choya wood https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DDZ4DYI/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I didn't mention this but I got this for my crabs its a good source of calcium I believe? Bone of a...