HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Kind of a long story. After I redid my 90gal because if a bacterial bloom, and upgraded my 40b to a 75, I ended up adopting several crabs. I wanted my bigger crabs in the 90, so there was 7 and I added a medium from the 40 to the 90. Total 8 in there. I put 4 from the 40, on the small side, in the 75. I adopted 3 from a friend and put them in the 75. They are pretty small. Then I purchased 3 small crabs from Petsmart. They went in the 75. Then I saw 2 crabs for sale on offerup. Plastic critter keeper. I offered to adopt them, but I didn't need to purchase the set up. It took her a few days. I offered her $5 for both crabs. She ended up giving me everything. The crabs were small and I was going to put them in with the big guys but realized the pools are sett up for the larger crabs. So they went into the 75 gal. There are 12 in there now. Although I have miscounted in the past but that's the number I'm going with. Lol. The last 2's shells were so pretty I decided they were females. I have no idea. In the 1st day they switched shells.

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Aw, congrats on the new babies!

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Hermiesguardian wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:13 pm

Kind of a long story. After I redid my 90gal because if a bacterial bloom, and upgraded my 40b to a 75, I ended up adopting several crabs. I wanted my bigger crabs in the 90, so there was 7 and I added a medium from the 40 to the 90. Total 8 in there. I put 4 from the 40, on the small side, in the 75. I adopted 3 from a friend and put them in the 75. They are pretty small. Then I purchased 3 small crabs from Petsmart. They went in the 75. Then I saw 2 crabs for sale on offerup. Plastic critter keeper. I offered to adopt them, but I didn't need to purchase the set up. It took her a few days. I offered her $5 for both crabs. She ended up giving me everything. The crabs were small and I was going to put them in with the big guys but realized the pools are sett up for the larger crabs. So they went into the 75 gal. There are 12 in there now. Although I have miscounted in the past but that's the number I'm going with. Lol. The last 2's shells were so pretty I decided they were females. I have no idea. In the 1st day they switched shells.

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Awww so sweet! I rescued my three crabs from a horrible situation from craigslist!
The first night one of the crabs in a painted shell changed the first night!!

CrabbyLover77 wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 14, 2020 12:25 am

Aw, congrats on the new babies!

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Thank you.

HappyHermit0916 wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 14, 2020 5:57 am

Awww so sweet! I rescued my three crabs from a horrible situation from craigslist!
The first night one of the crabs in a painted shell changed the first night!!

I find they do switch the first day. It's amazing they know the painted shells are no good.

So exciting!

When I was filling up my colony I adopted 2 crabs off of craigslist. The experience made me really angry because the guy didnt want to sell me the crabs if I wasn't going to buy his aquarium/crummy set up, which sounds like the lady who sold u 2 crabs. I told him he was lucky I was offering money for the crabs and that he would sell the stuff faster without crabs attached. He said no. I checked in with him a week later and, naturally, he had sold of the equipment including the aquarium but no one wanted the crabs. He was keeping them in a tiny mesh crab cage that they barely fit in together. I was so mad.

So frustrating how these people who are giving up their pets try to nickle and dime you sometimes. It's like dude, can you think about the wellbeing of your pets just a little bit??

Glad u got to rescue them and give them a great home! Since I lost 1 crab in the move I'm gonna look around to see if theres a tiny I can adopt in the new area to fill the vacancy. All my crabs are so big!

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ROSIEonFIRE wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 15, 2020 1:09 pm

So exciting!

When I was filling up my colony I adopted 2 crabs off of craigslist. The experience made me really angry because the guy didnt want to sell me the crabs if I wasn't going to buy his aquarium/crummy set up, which sounds like the lady who sold u 2 crabs. I told him he was lucky I was offering money for the crabs and that he would sell the stuff faster without crabs attached. He said no. I checked in with him a week later and, naturally, he had sold of the equipment including the aquarium but no one wanted the crabs. He was keeping them in a tiny mesh crab cage that they barely fit in together. I was so mad.

So frustrating how these people who are giving up their pets try to nickle and dime you sometimes. It's like dude, can you think about the wellbeing of your pets just a little bit??

Glad u got to rescue them and give them a great home! Since I lost 1 crab in the move I'm gonna look around to see if theres a tiny I can adopt in the new area to fill the vacancy. All my crabs are so big!

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Was he willing to give you the crabs?

Hermiesguardian wrote: Was he willing to give you the crabs?

He was willing to *sell* me the crabs after he realized I was right and that no one else would want them. It was so crazy when he gave them to me he was practically tearing up about it and how sad he was that he had to rehome them which, on the one hand it was nice to see someone who cared about their crabs but on the other hand, he was willing to sell off their aquarium stuff leaving them basically in a tupperware on the off chance he might make a few extra bucks so I'm not really that sympathetic

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