HCA: Hermit Crab Association

recently i bought a 3 tier corner shower caddy/desk organizer that’s about 13 inches tall and need some ideas to make it accessible for the hermies! i plan on wrapping the legs of it with twine but i don’t think that’s enough for them to actually be able to climb onto the levels. any ideas?

Your tank sounds great along with everything you feeding them! Maybe add more things for them to hide in so they aren't stressed and know they have a safe place to go to. And if you just got them they could just be stressed and getting used to the new tank. Adding different levels to their tank can...

it took me awhile to figure out how to make a new post but i did it yay lol. around 2 hand a half weeks ago i got 3 hermit crabs (all purple pinchers), shelly, sebastian, and clawdia. since the first day i got sebastian, he has not moved from his corner at all (i’ve check almost every night at diffe...

Sometimes they do just like a different fitting shell than what we think they should be in LOL. You could offer something similar but lighter, like a polished turbo? It's hard because we can't run any diagnostics to see what is wrong when a crab is unwell. All we can really do is keep the temp and ...

What type of shell is he in? Do you have others of that same type that are smaller? a green turbo shell. i do have a lot of the same type in smaller sizes, and she still hasn’t switched it so maybe she just likes it she is a big personality lol. Sebastian still won’t come out of the corner hide and...

You can offer Sebastian some high energy food like honey or peanut butter, but otherwise you might need to just keep waiting. You might consider isolating him if you think he might be weakened or vulnerable to being harmed by the other crabs. I have no experience with ceramic heaters, so can't help...

Having the heat mat underneath the tank is a fire hazard - they are not meant to heat through all the substrate we use for crabs. The UTH should be mounted on the back or side of the tank. And for crabs, look at the physical size of the mat (it should cover most of the area above the substrate) not...

Ok thank you!! Clawdia switched shells today! also is 68 degrees to cold for nighttime? i don’t run the heater at night or while me and my family are not home, but during the day without the heater it’s about 70, and with the heater i got it to about 75-80. are these temps ok? thank you again!

Hello! yesterday i rescued 3 small hermit crabs. i have a tank that’s a little over 20 gallons, 5 inches of playsand/coconut substrate, a ton of plants, climbing toys, hides, and 2 water dishes (one salt and one fresh) that have been primed with seachem prime. i feed them dried worms and bugs, shrim...