HCA: Hermit Crab Association

My sister won a hermit crab over the weekend and today we set up a temp enclosure. I had children's play sand and coconut coir as both my bearded dragon and my anoles are bioactive and did the 5 parts sand and one part coconut coir. I lightly sprayed it with my anole's misting water that has liquid calcium in it but it wouldn't hold a tunnel as it wasn't wetted down. I know to use dechlorinated water for any that it comes in contact with, just lost on the substrate being dry and not wet.

For the past couple days it lived in my master isopod colony, stayed under the leaves and bark all day. It is very moist substrate that is for isopods(powdered oranges, dwarf whites and springtails). That colony is in a flipped reptibreeze with vinyl on the sides and back to help with humidity.

The set up has a zilla tropical uvb tube, a 50watt halogen and a 60 watt night. It's loaded with fake vines for now, sticks and a hammock from the isopods to the sandbox. In the sand box is food bowl, bathing dish and water dish. Between the two containers on the base is a sphagnum moss (wet) bowl with ways to get down and up.

Will the isopods hurt him? They are kept fed really well, I am not worried, my sister is. Will he be able to stay like this until she can get a 20g tall, Up to a month away?

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You’ll need more than a light spray to wet it all. Go ahead and pour water in along the sides. Tap is okay to use in substrate since chlorine won’t hurt the crab there.

The isopods will not hurt the hermit crab, if anything the hermit may try to eat them.

That tank actually looks nice! If there’s only one crab it would probably last a lot longer than a month (depending on how big the crab is).


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It's about a 50 cent piece size, if that big. And he cab have all the isopods it wants, my anole's bioactive has over 1000. That is after I remove the top 2 inches of substrate and replaced with fresh. That seeded a huge bin and I know I am adding about 100 plus a day to it. Thank you for the response!