HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Thanks for the recommendation, I do most the tank often and keep the room their in humid, but how would I go about calibrating it if it is inaccurate

Thank you for all the recommendations and I will look into them now, also the 5 was a typo, I only have 3. Still the space is small and I want to upgrade but my family is restricting me.

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Hi, I believe that one of my crabs was attacked. All of my crabs have been buried since I got them but last week one came up. Another one came up last night before I went to bed. Theses crabs had never seen each other until now. When I woke up this morning I found one had reburied himself and I foun...

Here’s an article that will help you with the crab basics, for the other questions I feel I am not expert enough to help. There are many other admins that are very helpful that can lead you in the right direction. http://hermitcrabassociation.com/phpBB/ ... .php?f=120

The one that went down in the sand went down about a week ago and the other, about two. Is it possible that they are molting right after they already did?

Hi, so I have some calcisand in my aquarium and after doing some reading I’ve learned that it can build up on their shells like concrete and hurt/ kill them. I want to change the substrate but I have 2 crabs buried. One I believe is in the calci-sand area and the other I am unsure. The one that I th...

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Hi, thanks for the welcome I love to post crabby pictures but everybody is molting right now!

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Hi, I’m generally new to this site and I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Kyle and I’m fairly knew to crabbing. I have three crabs, Shelly, Crabby, and Karl (the names are dreadful I know). I’m so glad to have found this and look forward to chatting with all of you. Have a wonderful day!

Thanks for all your advice, the naked crab, I believe he is in a burrow, I will read all the care articles, thanks again

Thanks for the page about molting to. I greatly appreciate all your help!

I found all of them one of which is in a shell, one is out of the shell and one is unknown, I saw the shell after a bit of digging and I’m unsure if he’s in it. All of them are still buried though.