HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I was thinking about getting a betta fish to put in my extra ten gallon tank, and thought about shells and plants, hideouts from my hermit crab tank to go in there, does anyone have anything that they think may be a problem for the (hopefully) future fishy.

Okay, thanks for letting me know!

I was hoping to make a hermit crab tank that they can survive in without my help(minus water changes) so some edible plants, insects, isopods and mossy stuff, i was thinking about half the tabk all sand and half 50/50 ee and sand, so i would put a chia garden and mabye a small asparagus garden(in a ...

Avoid calcium sand, and the five to one ratio is five parts playsand to one part soil, any playsand is fine( as long as no pesticides), you dont need soil however it is recommended.
Hope that answered your question, if not let me know.

They will be bery shy and stressed when they first come from the pet store, and the conditions they are kept in are less than ideal, so it is not uncommon to find them constantly hiding, let him do his thing and eventually your crabbie will be back ti normal, also, all hermit crabs are different, yo...

- Play sand is cheap from a home store or smth -For food any veggies meats or fruits should be good for them - As a tank you can use a storage bin( just set it up properly). -you can use sticks and logs from ouside as climbing structures( no pesticides) - you cannot rlly get cheaper shells but no pa...

If your crabbie is molting, he may be under there for a week, or two months it varies from crab to crab, if you hear the clanging and noises at night he is not actively molting, remember to have a heater( preferably a mat heater)or UTH and put on side to keep heat up, fresh and salt water, and a var...

Usually they are just huts and parts from sets i built, so prob not used for anything, and my mom would probably not ket me give my legos to someone on the internet, sorry!!

Hii! Welcome, i am really glad you are doing reaserch before adopting, and ill try to give you some tips. A major mishap in new crabbie owners is sand and food, sand to coco fiber ratio is usually about 5:1 and three times thw depth of your largest crab. There is a food forum in here where you can s...

I cannot post pics here sadly, but in one corner of my tank i noticed green moldlike (strips?). There is some brownish things too, and its just under the sand on the glass, i removed it, but what is it, is it a danger to my crabbies?

So much poop. I dont know what happened i just came to the tank one day and there was poop in every corner of the tank, orange, brown, black. Is this a problem?

Ok, thanks for the advice i turned it on and am consistently checking temps also watching my hermies for any weird issues.

I have lots of unused legos in my basement, and just thought to give my hermies some hideouts and climbing blocks to play with, but found some sites saying they were unsafe and some saying they were perfectly fine, should i keep it safe and not use legos?

I got a heater recently for my tank( i had one on bottom but learned it was fire hazard) and was wondering if the sudden change in temp would make them stressed, its about a five degree difference, from about (started at)68 to 73-76 degrees F. Will they go into shock or something how should i introd...

Thanks, about the oranges and bananas(or any food with peel) though, should i give the peel to them ad well? Are any oats safe?? Is frozen chicken okay to give them, vut my mom usualy puts salt on them before i can ask for a separate chunck, is that okay??