New Here and New Crab Owner
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 12:17 pm
Hello all!
After lurking over the past year when I got my first hermit crab, I decided it was time to join and get more help via the forums.
I started off with 1 medium PP crab last year as a birthday gift (per request) and quickly realized that I needed way more than the little critter keeper hermit crab "kit" that I had. I ended up adopting two other hermit crabs from someone who didn't want to put the work into caring for them. I then had a 10 gal tank for my 3 PP hermits. Since then, I have learned so much as to what they need for care. They have all gone through successful molting spurts and new shell changes. Fast forward to fall going into winter, the crabs go into their next molt. My aggressive crab decided that he would dig up the molting crab and steal his shell. After isolating the naked molting crab, he soon died after that, leaving me with two crabs left. I currently have one crab molting (I hope! It's been 3 months), and the other crab doing his happy crab things. My current to-do and must-do task is create a humid environment as I only have a cage/grate lid that came with the 10 gal tank given to me, and to upgrade the heating pad as the current one is small (especially now that it is winter and it seems cooler in my home).
I have learned so much from this site/forum alone, and I hope to create the perfect crabitat for years to come!
After lurking over the past year when I got my first hermit crab, I decided it was time to join and get more help via the forums.
I started off with 1 medium PP crab last year as a birthday gift (per request) and quickly realized that I needed way more than the little critter keeper hermit crab "kit" that I had. I ended up adopting two other hermit crabs from someone who didn't want to put the work into caring for them. I then had a 10 gal tank for my 3 PP hermits. Since then, I have learned so much as to what they need for care. They have all gone through successful molting spurts and new shell changes. Fast forward to fall going into winter, the crabs go into their next molt. My aggressive crab decided that he would dig up the molting crab and steal his shell. After isolating the naked molting crab, he soon died after that, leaving me with two crabs left. I currently have one crab molting (I hope! It's been 3 months), and the other crab doing his happy crab things. My current to-do and must-do task is create a humid environment as I only have a cage/grate lid that came with the 10 gal tank given to me, and to upgrade the heating pad as the current one is small (especially now that it is winter and it seems cooler in my home).
I have learned so much from this site/forum alone, and I hope to create the perfect crabitat for years to come!
