HCA: Hermit Crab Association

yes it rotted in salt water for me..No the ee is not the only thing in my mulch pile, there are food scraps, leaves, grass clippings, egg shells, compost.. lots of stuff. Guess i have some great worms.. Ill put some in the mail to you Keith. Weird. I've never had anything rotten in our EE. We've lo...

burnin4Christ wrote:as some of you may know i am doing an informative speech on crabs and i was wondering if anyone could tell me why table salt is bad for them...i remember hearing once ot twice but i forget. thanks!

The anti-caking agents in table salt.

Hey everyone! Is there some way to cover it with still allowing them to climb up and hang out? We had a piece of Plexi cut at Lowe's for very little money. Enough to cover our 40L was under $15, IIRC. They can cut it to size for you, usually at no charge. If you have trouble with the plexi walking,...

I thought they were practically endanged and it was illegal to sell them. I spent a good little bit of time trying to find any support for this belief a bit back and could not find any references to them being considered endangered internationally or nationally. There were a few dated ( though I ha...

Agreen wrote: I'm using Hakari brand frozen krill but was wondering if anyone using freeze dried.

Garden variety dried krill, baby shrimp, and bloodworms. Tried the frozen, didn't have much luck. Now with the fresh shrimp.

so I've been looking at different lid types and I thought I'd get a plexi glass lid but I read on a couple of places that you need to cut holes for the lamps. is that true? If it is, I think I'll be going with a different type of lid.. haha As I use UTHs and a "normal" aquarium strip light, I don't...

My tat is currently at home, which is 3 hours away from my college. I will be home in about a week, so if I were to get the Straws, I would need to house them for about 5 or 6 days. When we have moved, we've used the larger Rubbermaid/Ziploc containers with a small number of holes punched in and fi...

I have and 50 gallon tat the humidity and temperature in the tat is fine. I read were the hermit crabs dig under and leave a hole on top were they dig. I suspect the sand will probably need to be moist for this to happen. My sand is dry and when he Hermie's dig under the hole collapses. The questio...

Okie wrote:All I've ever used is EE and so I noticed that most of you crabbers out there use a mix of EE and sand, I was just curious as to the reason why you mix the two together.

I use both, but do not mix.

Ok, recently I've been having really bad humidity problems(99%) and it barely hit me. I've got three things making my humidity skyrocket, one being the EE, the other the moss pit, and finally my recent pool. Now, I prefer EE to other substrates and I really can't change out substrates as Dave and J...

And I have discovered a new subspecies of C.violascens ( Sunset/Komurasaki Land Hermit Crab ); I name them "Zebra Sunset Land Hermit Crabs" - the colorations varied between grey, dark brown, or black with white bands on the leg joints. This makes me wonder if the "Calico" Eccies are a subspecies ( ...

Spanky_McNugget wrote:Has anyone heard any news on the blueberries yet???

Bump.

No wood is mold-resistant, unfortunately, but there are other options. You can try boiling cholla wood in salt water every month and it will keep it mold resistant. Fake plants dont mold, resin decorations don't, fishnet (mine go crazy for this) is great, you could try cholla wood, mine doesn't mol...

The frame is slotted structural steel. You can buy it at most hardware stores in various lengths and thicknesses. I used plexiglass, 1/8th inch thick. As for cost...Lord, I'd have to look around, it's been two years. I think I paid roughly $80 per 8x4 sheet. Held together with aquarium sealant?

Mokulele_Hawai'i wrote:Aloha firends ...
have you ever experienced this sad story with your E' or PP ?

The hermit crab casted the limbs off one by one, then died.

I've had this happen with every species we've had except indo (which we haven't had many of. )