HCA: Hermit Crab Association

This is the only picture i have. My husband took this at his "vigil". I know it's not a good one to see anything https://i.postimg.cc/7b4fW8Wm/20231116-184037.jpg Its kind of tricky to see him very well, is he still not moving? He could be de stressing, but then he would probably at least move a li...

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Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:02 pm

sadly no! the warmest place in very direct sunlight..

you could try possibly putting foil on the back of the tank and putting it in a spot where the foil will absorb sunlight but the rest of the tank is in the shade? i dont know

hi, sorry allamericancrab is my alt account for my other device. so I’m responding on here! the temp is 70 flat, but It’s rising slowly do you have somewhere warm you can put the tank? depending on your hermit crab species, 70 is still going to be too low. also for the humidity, if its still not ke...

my crab is digging in front of her hermie hut… is she molting?! she’s been less active at night according to my mom (could be overthinking since my mom doesn’t know her behavior like I do) am I overthinking? molting? just likes it like that? :banana: she could be molting, if shes small then shell p...

I never thought I'd be a crab owner, but here we are. My story begins over the summer when my sweet daughter was playing in the swampy area back back in the place in my yard that is beyond our fence. She texted, "hey mum, there's a hermit crab in the swamp" to which I said - are you sure? She sent ...

so uh…the food ingredients lists corn and soybean.. is this safe? I’ve heard some people say it’s bad for my crab. 🥲 As far as I know, corn and soybeans are both fine for hermit crabs, I wouldn't feed them as a standard food though because they're not super nutricious (I probably spelled that wrong...

Ohh that’s true, I didn’t even consider molting. Hmm… Maybe you could make some sort of barrier in the tank, with the taiwan crab one side and the hermies on the other? it probably wouldnt be too hard to make a barrier out of mesh or smnthg if u wanted to, youd just have to make sure it went all th...

I think it mainly depends on the size, usually anywhere from a few days to a week I'd guess. You might be able to move him sooner if you were really gentle but I wouldn't rlly recommend it, it's up to you tho

Is this mineral sea salt jelly an adequate substitution for a salt water pool? https://prnt.sc/0hadOsVXcd_E The product description says it contains moisture, salt, calcium, and other ocean water minerals. Do you mean jelly like for hair? The picture you put in didn't come up for me :? If it's for ...

Sea monkeys are brine shrimp, they don't really look like monkeys but they do look pretty cool, almost like big plankton or something

Nice!

I had a very active healthy crab one day & the next morning I went in to check on him and he was deceased . The odd thing about this was he was on one side of the tank & there was a glob y jelly fish looking substance on the other side of my tank floating in the water . Can anyone please tell me wh...

Nice! Sea monkeys are really cool

Are the hermies still available??

I could possibly adopt, does it cost money for the crabs and the tank?