HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Hey I am interested in getting a bubbler, I want it to be small quiet and I want it to work well with a filter.

What kind is it?
Do you have one?
Do your crabs enjoy it?
Dose it work well in a salt water pool as well as fresh?
Is it quiet?
Dose it require a lot of mantanance?

Thanks, for some reason I feel like I posted a question about this before, but I din't find it when I looked. . . thanks.

This sounds like a pools project...

I like the Dive clean mini/micro for pools, as it's very small yet very powerful for its size. Kili mentioned the Hagen Elite Mini for your other question before, and I have one for my green crab. It's larger, the same price, and around the same output pressure.

As for bubblers, no matter what anyone tells you, even the cheapest air pump is virtually silent... it's the bubbles that are the decibel-makers here. Wrapping [thick] rubber bands around an air pump (I use this method myself) will drastically cut any reverberations the pump may make onto a table.

For virtually all air pumps:
-Maintenance-free
-Type of water doesn't affect bubbler, but watch for rapid evaporation of salt water bowls which will make it much saltier, and may need refilling quite often (fresh water too)
-Quiet (bubbles are noisy though- tank lid makes it quieter though

I have the smaller Elite Air Pump by Hagen (Click). It only cost me ~10$ Canadian, and still runs two years later.

I haven't asked the crabs myself, but I'm sure they don't mind it...

~Ryan

Okay, I'm totally at a loss here...I really need humidity and I heard a bubble pool is the way to go but... I have no idea what they are!!!! Could someone give me a definition and just some general info (including price)? I (and my poor crabbies) would really appreciate it!

bubblers at its most basic is an air pump that sits outside of the tank with a small hose with an air stone that is attched to it that sits inside whatever your are using as a dish.

small air pump can cost $7-$12
http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.j ... Id=3742976

Hose $1-$5
http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.j ... Id=2752198

Airstone .39
http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.j ... Id=2752251

http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http ... 80&bih=653

I (and my crabs) thank you Jcat! I'm off to Petsmart asap!

I made my own.

One bag of glass marbles or decorative glass rounds
One air pump
One air line
One blue air stone
One glass jar, or wide bowl vase.


Wash the bowl and glass marbles. Attach the air stone to the air line and the line to the air pump. Make one layer of glass marbles. Add the air stone and cover with the rest of the glass marbles. Put in tank and add water.


Its cheap, fast, and you can change the color of the marbles.