HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Thank you all for your kind input, this webpage has been a very helpful resource for me! An update. I did get another crab, who has gone through two molts already this year and very active. I've kept them in separate tanks next to each other; my large crab Billy is in a 40 gallon long and my new sm...

aussieJJDude wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 17, 2020 4:57 am

These are some seriously great pics. And the wheel bids/pics alwags crack me up, I really should get one.

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Thank you very much.

Cool!

CrabbyLover77 wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:16 pm

Great pics! Thanks for sharing! [emoji4]

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Thank you very much for the compliment!

Hermielover121 wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:04 pm

Awwwww


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Update: I scrounged through my hard drive to post some more of the pics I took over the years - May 23, 2012 I believe this is after a second molt with the same shell when I first bought him. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50226906843_d6419bd3ae_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/5022690...

GotButterflies wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 13, 2020 12:07 pm

Gorgeous!

Thank you.

He's amazing. I love seeing the size difference between a couple years, its crazy to see how much they grow! Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk Yup, it's amazing indeed. Sometimes I take the fact for granted the fact that so many years have passed and that the shell I bought him with which he cam...

What a big beautiful guy! I have one that is about 8, well he’ll be 9 this year but I adopted him so I don’t have any pictures of him like that to be able to compare, I wish I did. It’s so awesome seeing them do so well. Congratulations on having him for so long, he is beautiful! Sent from my iPhon...

HappyHermit0916 wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 12, 2020 2:34 pm

Wow!

Thanx

Hermiesguardian wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 08, 2020 11:00 pm

Wow! Beautiful.

Thank you very much.

CrabbyLover77 wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 08, 2020 9:40 pm

Aw how awesome! He's so big now! I got my crab Beau in June of 2012, so he's also 8+ years old. Your guy looks bigger than Beau though! [emoji16]

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Thank you very much.

My oldest hermit crab with me. I got him (I assume the crab's male - no discernible gonopores and currently I can't see the pleopods) back in November 10, 2011. Here are pics I took of him November 19, 2011 (thank goodness for the auto-dates being saved in the old files :D.) https://live.staticflick...

With regards to your question about putting the heating pad on the sides as opposed to underneath, as far as I am concerned, it does keep the temperature warm for the crabs. I have a side mounted heat pad and served me well for the past 8 or so years keeping my two purple pinchers successfully. The ...