HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Hi! I am attempting to breed this year and have been working with folks in the US but I am in Canada. I have too many spawns. Is there anyone in Canada wanting to accept zoeae to attempt to breed them? I would need to keep them alive until Monday and also not sure about the cost of shipping but I wa...

Personally, I've found my crabs go through phases of digging/not digging. Also I re-did the aboveground portion of their tank this summer and they spent weeks just exploring it, not digging at all. They eventually started to burrow again and now the sand is everywhere lol. Since you got the little g...

I wonder if crab central station would be able to answer- I've gotten responses messaging them on their Instagram account- I think they posted a feeding video on their YouTube but I looked and couldn't find it right away - I know it mentioned alot of Zoea feeding but I'm not sure if it was for Megal...

Would love to know if this turned out- I have had a couple of mountain minnows and a onion snail in a 2.5 gallon freshwater tank inside my 80 gal long for about a year now and they are doing well. My crabs occasionally take a swim and the fish go and hide in their little ship decoration until the cr...

Thanks! I looked some more on these boards this morning and I already did, I knew they were bad, I guess I was just second guessing myself as a new crab owner!

I have been reading these boards for a few weeks and I adopted my crabs from two listings on Kijiji yesterday! I am really excited, and I made sure to check out the basic care sheets and some of the other topics before getting them. One of my new crabs came in a painted shell, and I know those are b...