HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Sharpey died, so I wanted to see if I could find another Rug out there to take her place. Stoped at Petsmart (one of two I've been to that do okay with conditions) and found a little white Rug. She's a teeney, and seems really healthy and active (I'm so wishing she'll be okay- you never know about these things). She came right out in my hand and is cruising all over her ISO tank right now.

Here's pics of her, I think Pearl is so pretty!

Awww...she's sweet crabber! Congrats on the new baby!

What a doll--CONGRATS!!!

I love the first pic. It looks like he's thinking "Look at me! I'm adorable!"

WOW!! She is Gorgeous!!!

Aww crabber! She's so pretty! Congrats on the find. She has a great chance of living a long happy life with you.

Aww she's awesome! Congrats Crabber and Good Luck with her!

Really cute! Congrats.

TOO cute! I must have one..... my Torgo is pretty light. I'm still not sure if he's an E or a Rug... but he's been buried FOREVER now so I haven't ever had any chance to get a good look!

awwww, Pearl is a really good name for her! Hopefully this will be a luckie ruggie for you.

Caroline

So pretty. I am sending her positive thoughts on a speedy healthy de-stressing period. Keep us posted.

Thanks all, for your support and postive thoughts! I'm doing the gradual humidity thing in her ISO, it's been at 60, tomorrow I'll raise it to 70. I'm smoothing out the sand when I feed her so I can see if she's been up and about and so far every morning there's been tracks. So far so good. I've seen some pretty Rugs in petstores, a baby blue rug once, and another time a pinky-red Rug. I didn't have room at the time to get them, this is the first white Rug I've seen. She sure is pretty. I can't wait until she's over the ISO peroid and I can watch her in the main tank.

crabber wrote:Thanks all, for your support and postive thoughts! I'm doing the gradual humidity thing in her ISO, it's been at 60, tomorrow I'll raise it to 70.

Just to let you know how I interpreted these things. They suggested raising humidity by 10% every 3 days or so. It seems they didn't mean 10% points, but 10% of the current humidity.

In other words 10% of 60% relative humidity is 6% relative humidity "points."

So I think it would go from 60% -> 66% -> 73% -> 80%


Truth be told, I couldn't even stick with it. I started at 65%, but over 3 days, the humidity hit 75% (local weather? No A/C, and maybe I spilled some water on the sand). Since that's the median humidity in my main tat, I went ahead and moved my newest Rug into the main tat after 4 days.

What a cute baby!!

Thanks Chade. This is the first time in a long time that I've had the urge to play with a distressing crab. I'm not gonna, but I want to. I saw her last night up and about. I know it's superficial to like her because she's pretty, but I'm only human. So far her personality is cute too, she's fairly social for a newbie.

Mormegil wrote:
Just to let you know how I interpreted these things. They suggested raising humidity by 10% every 3 days or so. It seems they didn't mean 10% points, but 10% of the current humidity.

In other words 10% of 60% relative humidity is 6% relative humidity "points."

So I think it would go from 60% -> 66% -> 73% -> 80%


Truth be told, I couldn't even stick with it. I started at 65%, but over 3 days, the humidity hit 75% (local weather? No A/C, and maybe I spilled some water on the sand). Since that's the median humidity in my main tat, I went ahead and moved my newest Rug into the main tat after 4 days.

Thanks for the clarification! Details, details, I have no doubt you interpreted it the correct way, sometimes I confuse the details.

I agree, it's a HARD thing to do! I still feel ISOing new crabs has some advantages. A newbie won't have to immediately compete with other crabs for food, water and shells. There are some crabbers who ISO new crabs for a month or more, during the whole PPS period. They would buy crabs in twos, so the newly ISOed crabs has some company. It also would possibly save the current colony from a possible communicable disease.