HCA: Hermit Crab Association

What a bunch of goobers! xD

Good to know that this is totally normal behavior.

So I'm relatively new to caring for hermit crabs and I'm not sure if this is completely normal crabby behavior. My hermie swapped into a new shell on Sunday night (no molting within at least the last three months, when we first started caring for her) and then swapped back into her old shell last ni...

Thanks so much for the suggestions! We just added in a little moss pit today, and another UTH on the side and we've managed to keep her temp and humidity up for a few days now! So exciting. And she's been scuttling about all happy and encouraged so that's definitely brought a big smile to my face ^_^

After a month of studying and trying different things, I think we've finally figured out a good configuration for my class crabs! Sadly, in the process, one died (she was super weak and inactive after we received her so I imagine there's a certain amount of PPS). Another one dug himself in and we ha...

I'm loving all this good info! Thanks guys. One thing we're finding tricky (and that, based on what I've seen online, seems to be the forever problem) is keeping the humidity up in the tank overnight so that we're not showing up in the morning to 60%. Our lid setup is mesh that's been mostly taped s...

Hello! I'm a preschool teacher who recently inherited some hermit crabs from another class that no longer wanted to care for them. We have three fairly tiny guys (1" at most). Two are unnamed but the class voted to name the first one Crabigail! We've been working to make sure the tank we have for th...