HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Thank you for your questions, Curly. As I said, we’ve only had hermit crabs for 7 days now. The conditions in the tank have improved (avg temp is now 75, humidity levels are around 80%), the sand is “castle” consistency, and the crabs each have 4 shells to choose from. They’ve already been coming ou...

Our family’s new role as Keepers of the Crabs has a long learning curve, it seems. Thanks for the good ideas. My husband was going to be in charge of setting everything up, and his plan was to buy a tank and aquarium gravel, toss some hermies in there and feed them whatever, which is what he did whe...

Hi! This part is not super relevant to your emergency specifically, but I’d just like to add that in your form you mentioned using commercial food for your hermits. I just wanted to lyk that many can be pretty toxic, and unless you use different products of the same brand, I think yours might be : ...

Thx! I’ve seen the bottle recommendation in other places too. It turns out my crabs are both molting in burrows right next to each other - hopefully the first one done doesn’t nibble on the other one. The black blob I found on the rock wasn’t the crab, thankfully!

You came to the right place! I'm new to doing this the right way too. Sounds like you've got a great start on a home and proper keeping strategy, but I'd read up on the tutorials here on what you need and how to do it. In the meantime, I'd cut a piece of cardboard or wrap the top of your 10gal with...

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