HCA: Hermit Crab Association

View through the top of my crabitat. Poor guy is pretty sure there's more tank up there. He's been feeling on the glass for like 30 minutes! You're already at the top, buddy! But it was nice to see him up close.

Mine do that too. Goofy crabs.

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Same crab has decided to go a different route...

Looks like we have the same glass lid on our crabitats and one of my guys, Big Enzo, does the Tour de Glass Top every night. He works his way around the top perimeter, moving along the netting, vines, guards until he gets to the front; with nothing to grab hold of, he manages to get his toenails just between the edge of the glass lid and the lip of the tank and tries to work himself along to reach the guard at the other end. As he's a large clunky PP, most often he'll lose his grip about halfway along and fall to the substrate. Sometimes, though, he'll get almost to the guard at the next corner, lose it and plummet into the FW pool -- of course, he gets that "What happened? Did anyone see who pushed me?" look, sits in the pool gathering his thoughts, climbs out and heads to the food bowls to rethink his ceiling-scaling strategy .

It's good to have a routine? Hahaha. Sounds like a cutie. One of mine was spidermanning under the glass today, no where near the plants, so he must've done something similar.

I keep seeing mine hanging off of the humidity gauge and could not for the life of me figure out how he was getting there. Then I saw him use the probe for the thermometer as a vine of sorts to get up and then kinda swing/reach/clunk his way over to the meter.


Zoo mom of 3 cats, a dog, a fish and 3 crabs