HCA: Hermit Crab Association

thank you, i do pay attention to the abdomen but i just cant see well. however if they do mate and eggs appear, what do i do??

B is my bigger hermit crab, I think a girl and P is my other hermit crab that I think is a boy. P just came back from molting about a week ago and B has been all over him. B would get in P's face and P would draw back into his shell slowly and LET B examine the shell and put her front claw into P's ...

hi, i just saw this. unfortunately my dear no pincher hermie passed away a while ago. i think he was because he wasnt able to eat his food correctly.

hi i noticed this was in january and good news, bart is good and he just wondered off nakey to find another shell. hes alive and healthy. love him to death

I don’t want to get into too much detail but I had a hermit crab come up from molting and he doesn’t have his big pincher. Everything thing else is okay, but I don’t know how to care for a hermit crab who doesn’t have a big pincher. Any advice/suggestions?

hello!! this morning Bart finally came up after 3 months of molting. He looked wonderful! I found him trying on another shell. I have a big bowl of shells in the corner. And he left the shell he was trying on untouched. He went to stay in my coconut he has. I go to school. I come back from school an...

thank you for the response! i have had a hermit crab pass away while molting because he came with a deformed shell. so im a little nervous when it hits that 2 month mark. thank you all for the reassurance!!

this is actually so cool because this morning Bart came up. You dont know how much relief i feel. thank you so much for the response.

hello. ive been at this hermit crab owning for a year and a couple of months. i have a 29 gallon. A little under half the tank is filled with play sand mix coconut fiber (although the sand is a little fine). I am providing lots of hiding spaces with 100watt light bulb on the tank. I change this over...