HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Thank you for the help I appreciate it. With the humidifier on I am maintaining around 80% humidity and so far I am still able to make a sand castle 😉 One heat pad is on the outside of the whole cabinet and under the cabinet. The other heat pad is directly behind the aquarium but inside the cabinet....

Yeah but there is no the hermits can get to those wires

Look absolutely amazing!! Great job! I can't wait to see the finished product! Where did you get the white grate for hermies to climbing on?

Looks fantastic!, looks like something I will have to try on my next tank. Great job!!

I have my first setup for our hermits and I used a flower cabinet that's vertical. I had a hard time reaching 80° because I keep it cold in my house and it's a larger cabinet with some air leaks. I put three heat mats inside the tank and then used the silver flexible insulation and insulated two sid...

Why did the hermit crab knock over the temperature gauge?

He wanted to prove that even the coolest creatures can be a little hot-headed!

I forgot to mention that I have a heat pad outside of the flower cabin and under the tank (not under the aquarium inside the tank) I also have another heat pad directly behind the aquarium on the wall of the floor cabinet and there is about a ⅛" gap between the aquarium and the heat pad. I have a th...

Constructive criticism is welcome please. We went on vacation my gf daughter got two hermit crabs in a metal fence cage. Once home I started reading and realized the cage is a death trap. So thanks to everyone here who posted and helped others I set up my first tank. I do have a few concerns though....