HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Tonight we have a delicately prepared buffet! My crabs are absolutely loving it! Fresh Watermelon Applesauce topped with dried mealworms :puke: Homemade Color Enhancing Omelet Dried shrimp exos :love5: My 3 Ecuadorians are loving the watermelon and applesauce! My Purple P's are loving the omelet, m...

Mine LOVE their moss pits. They are constantly eating/munching on it all the time, and sleep in it for hours at a time! I have 2 sections up high in my tanks, they are the suction cup style holders that go in showers, and they work great! When I go away on trips though, they usually tear them down i...

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Well, that is a good idea, and no offense taken! I do the same thing with crickets....they are always gone. They love fresh protein like that. I think it's a smart idea.

They gotta eat!

Nice thread...at one time, I used this same food....my crabs loved it, and my E's would fight over it... However, after feeding them this food, I started seeing deformed legs on 90% of my crabs when they would come up from molts...mostly on the E's, a couple of the PP's and 2 straws. So, I eliminate...

Oh goody!

I am going to get one of these for tonight

I agree, try to put the molted crab w/ his exo, maybe put them both under a cup or something....he really needs the exo.

Mine go nuts over papaya! I pick the ones at Walmart that are almost mushy feeling, and they are extremely ripe. Personally, I tried one, and think it tastes nasty!

But they love it, and will munch on each piece, down to the hull!

Thank you for your kind words.....I did all I could humanly do.....

I just wanted to let everyone know that I appreciate all the replies and thoughts for my Gary. He did pass away on Tues., June 17th. He just couldn't hold on any longer, and I thought I would give you all an update.... Thanks for all the advice and concerns....I hope I don't have to go through this ...

Grammarcia wrote:Just a thought. If you are able to get some of his exo and finely grind it, maybe he would eat it. You could also try it in his baby food.

That is a GREAT idea....I will try that this week.....

Fully expecting to find Bugsy7 dead this morning.... still un-shelled...with his EXO next to him....He spent all day without his clothes.... I was really afraid to open the tank to check on him... HE HAS RESHELLED!!!! :) and slowly beginning to eat his EXO..... He is all pink today and so pretty......

I am going through the same sort of thing... I found my Bugsy7 naked under the salt pond yesterday... At first I thought he was a victim of a shell snatcher.. He was covered in sand all over his abdomen and very pale...and lifeless.. I placed him in ISO inside his tank, and really figured he would ...

Ok, so I have a jumbo PP who molted ( I posted about this a couple of weeks ago) 3 months ago, and then, I found this guy half molted about 3 weeks ago. He was surface molting, and was caught in his molt. I had to help him get out of his molt... He ended up dropping 2 legs, but will not eat his exo....

First I am so sorry to hear about Aka :( I hope he recovers well :) But, honestly, it's nice to know even the best hermie keepers have disasters happen....I am so sorry to hear about your losses....I really need to check through 2 of my tanks for some MIA crabs... Thanks for sharing your post with a...

I am not totally sure this was due to ethoxquin, but I did have some very bad molts when I used commercial foods. During soem molts, I had crabs lose limbs, ad I know it wasnt because there was an attacker crab. I have also had one crab that was so severley deformed he only had one eye and one claw...