HCA: Hermit Crab Association

If it keeps happening, dunk all of your crabs. The idea is to make them all think they've always been together because they smell the same. Usually it's the new crab that gets attacked, but sometimes it's the reverse!

Don't touch her anymore at this point, she was either going to surface molt or die, and if it is was a molt they have to be left alone or it messes it all up. It is all on her now.

You said you moved them yesterday? Any underground crab should be treated as a molter and isolated alone until you absolutely positive it's ready to be with others. My guess is the one being attacked is still too close from molting, or is about to molt.

Research which species of millipede you are considering, not all do great in captivity, and not all will breed easily if you wanted to keep them going over time! Like hermits, many are wild caught because they look cool. I tried several myself before fully understanding and it ended in heartbreak. L...

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I've only ever had a single crab reuse a burrow, once. It takes a ton of work to actually empty out and create reusable open spaces underground. They would have to carry out the sand, push it to the side, go back for another load, etc. I never thought they could actually do this, but I watched my Ru...

Anything single ingredient will meet their meat needs, though having a few for a selection is a good idea. So think plankton, mysis shrimp, red shrimp, crickets, meal worms, gammarus, bloodworms, daphnia, etc. You can find freeze dried in the fish/reptile aisle of the pet store (walmart, too!), or f...

I got to the point where everything I had went into a 2.5 gallon ziploc bag that I store in the freezer so it stays fresh. I pull a bit of the mix out every few weeks so it's by the tank for dinner.

Some crabs do have an extended recovery period before they start eating their exo, but a week is a little long. Is it directly in front of her so she doesn't have to move to get at it? My biggest worry is that her mouthparts may have been damaged in the tussle when she was still moist and malleable ...

There is no way to get rid of the mites, they live in our homes and are attracted to the heat, humidity and food in the crab tanks. You can manage numbers by carefully feeding or using predatory mites to decimate their numbers for a while. Honestly, I stopped even trying to do anything about them 10...

Super common, I even have them in my scorpion and toad tanks. They just sort of wander out and enjoy themselves, and hey, they are eating garbage and poop so more power to them.

It looks like an ulcer. That spot can scrape against their shells when they pull in and I've had them with discolorations there, but she may have ended up with a bit of a bacterial infection if it broke through her exo or happened when she was still soft from molting. That positioning doesn't look l...

hermit_crab_mommy wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 24, 2020 8:54 pm

He has one big pincher and one small, I’d say purple pincher. (I’m 99% sure they are the only ones with different sized pinchers)

All land hermits crabs have the different sized pinchers. Marine hermits usually have claws that are the same size.

Oh ok... So I should indeed switch it out for play sand then? Sent from my SM-G973U using Tapatalk If I had any suspicions it was coated, I would for safety. We don't really know what longterm affects paint can have, and there's been reports of them eating flaking materias. If you aren't sure, try ...

Tea tree oil for fish is a scam! It's been scientifically studied that it doesn't do a thing for bacteria or parasites. Biggest junk treatment ever. I would suggest doing a large water change and to keep doing regular water changes for a while, if you aren't already. Clean water can do a LOT for the...