HCA: Hermit Crab Association

The coconut hide is suppose to be real coconut and the ladder is wood

That's good to know about the fake greens. I've been tempted to buy some, I probably will after reading your response!

That's really neat you were able to get a 65 gallon free!! How many crabs do you have in there? We were very lucky that the people who gave us the crab did so for free with everything included. We do want to get him a couple of friends so we do plan to upgrade him to a 29 gallon when we do that. Hop...

New hermit mom we adopted a hermit on Friday. We are slowly introducing more food to him(going off the food list here on the site) . We did banana and some bug mixture from the store tonight and he LOVED the banana!! I wanted to give him broccoli tomorrow, does it need to be cooked or no? Thanks

Thank you! I was feeling super overwhelmed and didn't know where to start and we don't really have a ton of money to put into it right off the rip. We kept his 10 gallon for now but got some essentials. He now has a salt water dish and some better food options, too :) I'm happy I saw this post befor...

We took in a crab last night from someone we know and as I am reading about how to take care of them, I am slowly realizing that the crab wasn't properly taken care of. For a little over a year, he has been by himself with nothing to climb on and he has only had one water dish with distilled water. ...