HCA: Hermit Crab Association

After seeing other success stories with toppers, I decided to do one myself. The tank measures 72x18x22 and the topper is exactly half of that measuring 36x18x16. I have all ones that were up in the 90G transferred into this one (8 at the moment and 5/6 more to go). Once the molters are up, they'll be transferred as well.

The tank has crushed coral where pools are and a divider to keep the substrate separate. The substrate on lowest end is 8 inches and 16 inches on the highest end. Substrate is sand:ee (5:1) throughout the tank and top 4 inches under topper is sand:ee (1:5). Pool side has UVB mounted inside of tank. The topper side has bright uva light on top and daylights on top to lessen the effect of the bright white on this side.

* Give me a few mins to upload pics. Ignore the blue tape in the back. This is the minimum 10 inch substrate line.

Sent from my HTC6515LVW using Tapatalk

Pics doesn't do this tank any justice!

Sent from my HTC6515LVW using Tapatalk

Looks amazing!!! What type of plants do you have in there?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks!! Plants are all fake LOL. Grass is from hobby lobby as well as flower clusters on pool side. Plants at top are jungle plants from PetSmart.

Wood is real tho! It's a mixture of oak, dogwood, maple, grave vine, and mopani.

Edit - and there's cork bark from Petco.

Sent from my HTC6515LVW using Tapatalk

Thats beautiful daws. I love the flow of light to dark. almost 2 biomes. Really spectacular

Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

That looks incredible!!!!! Great job!! Did you flip the 40B upside down or did you take the bottom of it out? How did you attach the topper to the base tank?

GotButterflies wrote:That looks incredible!!!!! Great job!! Did you flip the 40B upside down or did you take the bottom of it out? How did you attach the topper to the base tank?

Thanks! I originally took the bottom trim piece off and was trying to get the bottom glass off in one piece. After 4 days of trying and a lot of cuts and bruises later, I gave up and just smashed the bottom out then siliconed the trim back in place. I used clear duck tape to secure it to the base tank.

Edit- after smashing the bottom out, we learned that it was glued on. It would have took me forever to get it off.

Sent from my HTC6515LVW using Tapatalk

CrabMater wrote:Thats beautiful daws. I love the flow of light to dark. almost 2 biomes. Really spectacular

Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

Thanks!!

Sent from my HTC6515LVW using Tapatalk

This looks amazing!

Sent from my LGMS550 using Tapatalk

Lools really good... expect that substrate to shift though.

Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

Cool Daws!
It is almost hard to believe that it is 6 ft long! The pictures, I don't know, something about it!

Thanks again guys!

Sent from my HTC6515LVW using Tapatalk

Wow! Just WOW!

That's incredible. Thanks for sharing pictures. It's beautiful!

Wow that is beautiful


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Thanks

Sent from my HTC6515LVW using Tapatalk