HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Keep us posted, Bonny, on the tank! Can't wait to see it!

That sight is so cool! I read through the whole thing. Really cool!

I've only got smallish crabs, so strength of structures here isn't a very big problem... WHOA! That Misty is at it again falling from the top of the tank. :shock: Just now. That's three times this week! :shock: She won't give up the fact that she won't get out of the tank, even if she climbs the cor...

Yeah, I thought of that after I posted. The drain would probably create a suction. :| Well, I guess constant water changes can't be avoided. Even with that filter. I was reading the other page there on the red clawed crabs, and I remembered that the dead larvae would raise the nitrates, so I might n...

Thanks for the link! How would the overflow work? If I could use that, then water changing would be a breeze. Also, would that Dirt Magnet filter make it so that I would not need to water change as much?

But one thing that I would suddgest is that you do not get any more fiddlers. Because mabye the breeding hormmones would be lost if more crabs were introduced..hmmm. I agree. I did not actually want to buy any others for a while now. I want to try getting them to mate first, then maybe get another ...

I have a glass top lid for my tank, with a 60 watt sun and a 75 night glo bulb, which I alternate day/night. My tank is what I guess you could call low maintenance, as my temp and humidity are very stable. I love my 20 gal :) . The thermostat idea is fine, but the humidity thing would be very hard t...

Cool idea! :) You could use epoxy (5-minute epoxy for fast drying). You might need to buy a few tubes (they are kind of small), but that glue is designed for glass, plastic, and metal use. I used it to hold up my second levels. One note- it isn't very good with high humidity, even though it says "wa...

I like your tank! Nice set-up. I don't have that much space for the big tree thing, but thois caves looked cool. How big is your tank?

Yeah, I intend to wait. Trust me, I don't blame her, she only just released the eggs in the last week and a half. I don't expect anything for another few months (I'm hoping 8) ). I will have to stock up on the necessary supplies for the tank, including the tank itself. I don't want to buy a tank tha...

Don't see any larvae anymore. :( I will definately try again, of course, if Luna and Poseidon continue to be "Fiddler romantics" :smt057 . I am just trying to find a few things first, like liquid food, and an artemia hatchery. :wink: And Artemia eggs, of course. Know where I could find any of that?

Well... don't know how to say this really... ok... There are barely 5 live larvae now in the tank, I believe. :( After reading that diary Silent Protagonist, I knew I had been doing quite a few things wrong. :oops: For one thing, they need much deeper water. I was not monitoring the nitrates either....

THE EGGS HATCHED!!!!!!!!!! :wootjump: There are now ToNs of fiddler crab larvae in the tank. :D See sig... They really are about this size > . I can't really see them, as they are so tiny, but they do move around. And I got pics of Luna before she released the eggs! (I figured out the Macro zoom on ...

Well, I set up a tank for Luna to hatch her eggs in, which I'll take her out after. There is no filter in the tank so that the eggs don't get sucked up. With Lightning in ISO right now, Luna about to go into her own tank, and my main two fiddler and hermit tanks, I currently have four tanks going, w...

Yeah, I know, but that's the tricky part. I think I will ISO Luna in a few days in her own tank until she realeases the eggs. Then I'll put her back in the main tank, so she doesn't eat them. I won't use a filter, as that would suck up the eggs, and kill them. Then I'll see how it goes...