HCA: Hermit Crab Association

My big hermit crab is hanging half way out of its shell and not responding to me I bought it like 2 weeks ago and how do I know if it's dead or molting I have plenty enough sand for him too I just don't understand he fell yesterday from about12 inches and landed backwards on its shell and stood the...

My big hermit crab is hanging half way out of its shell and not responding to me I bought it like 2 weeks ago and how do I know if it's dead or molting I have plenty enough sand for him too I just don't understand he fell yesterday from about12 inches and landed backwards on its shell and stood ther...

But my hermit crab is not eating the shells he is scraping them away and while he is doing that he has like a very very slight twitch... I feel like he's looking for his exo and refusing to eat the egg shells if he doesn't eat the egg shells will he even survive???????????????[emoji27] Sent from my...

I figured out that situation now I have another I got this hermit from a friend and he was not taken good care of he started surface molting and I never had a crab surface molt and he shedded his exo skeleton like 3 days ago and I threw away his exo skeleton and then I did more research and found o...

Is he molting just under the top layer of substrate? Or is that where the cave opening is? How deep is your substrate? How long have you had them? If he is molting you should try to disturb him as little as possable. Maybe place something else over that spot and move the food to another area? I don...

My little hermit crab started to molt and it's in a 50 gallon tank with 4 other hermit crabs my question is do I need to take all of my hermit crabs out or can I just leave them in there and also secondly he started to molt under the food dish I was wondering if it's alright if I leave all of my her...

Hey! So i bought some fake plants and there was a strong plastic smell and I didn’t want it in my tank smelling like that so i ran it under warm water and let it sit a day and its still really strong, is there any tips y’all got?? Also is it bad for them because I haven’t put them in there in case ...