HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Thank you all! I had gotten them from a beachside store and only afterwards did I learn that that is the worst place to get hermit crabs. Had I known that before, I would have waited to get some from a proper pet store. Neither of them were eating or drinking any water, or moving around at all and u...

Thank you for the help and information, but unfortunately, she did not make it. I put her in the new crabitat and kept the food and water close to her and didn't touch her for a few days. She did not move at all, there were no tracks in the sand substrate and she didn't burrow either. And the fishy ...

The stuff I'm getting tomorrow should give her good molting conditions, and I'll get her into it as soon as it's ready. Thank you for the help!!

Okay! I'm going out tomorrow to get a lot of new stuff that's more fitting for hermit crabs (and much better heating equipment), will that help her recover? I really want to do my best for her and my other little crab

She's tucked up into her shell, not all the way, her legs barely hang out, but she's up in there

I just got two little hermit crabs, I haven't even had them for a week yet. I got a starter terrarium kit for them and have been working on getting more for them, like a nice heater and some substrate, among other things. My new sand substrate came in today so I took the hermies out real quick to pu...