HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Once you've figured out what you still need, I'd be glad to submit some pictures. I've had many species over the past few years and I have pretty good close-up shots.

The replies to this thread are hilarious.

On a more serious note, my crabbies also like to use the extra shells and shower caddies as toilets.

Unless it's a country with hermit crabs that celebrates Ramadan as a national holiday (and I don't think there is), I can't think of a single Pacific nation that has a month long official holiday. I'm thinking that it's the supplier that went on "holiday" ie "vacation". Someone correct me if I'm wr...

I just stumbled upon a really cool article on the Internet about hermit crabs and mass shell changes. :) These biologists went to a small island to study the behavior of a colony of land hermit crabs there. Crabs in the wild, when changing shells, will often do mass shell changes and make a little c...

I was thinking the next time someone in the Pittsburgh area wanted to order from LHC, let me know and we could do one big order to split the high shipping cost! If there are multiple people interested that would be even better. We could meet at a pet store and make a mini-convention out of it.

My username comes from the name of one of my old hermit crabs who was very dear to me.

Ashmash wrote:Now the safe foods from the safe foods list need to be put into each of those categories!

This is a great idea. Perhaps I will work on such a project soon!

This is such an amazing story! I'm so glad everything worked out.

What a fighter!

PUMPKIN!

The clan had a big piece of pumpkin today because I was dehydrating the rest for the autumn collection at Kilimanjaro's Kibbles.

Stunning images!

The second one is so very beautiful.

Thanks for sharing! I was just lamenting the fact that I haven't seen your pictures in a long time!

Dawnpaw, I love your crabitat! It looks so awesome.

Territorial displays and dominance are very common in the crabitat, and in the wild! They have a sort of hierarchy system.

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Mulberries are safe, as well as the leaves!

The safe list comes from anothe website (Epicurean Hermit), so I'm not sure how frequently they update it. But yes, there are definitely a lot of foods that are safe that are not on the list! I tend to just stay away from the unsafe list.

How come you boiled the mussel? Is that something that should be done for all seafood, or is it personal (or crab) preference? I got some fresh shrimp (with shells and tails on) today and put one in raw for them to eat. It's more of a personal preference. :) I do feed them raw meats here and there,...