HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Those look more like earth worms like wode said.

Mine looked like this:

https://imgur.com/a/3TCmBus

Mine continued to leave worms that looked like either nematodes or Arundinula washingtoniensis. Long, stringy and seemed like they had many small cells for body segments. They came in on some blueberry crabs and it completely wiped my colony within 2 years and I had them as well. Since I've lost my ...

wash everything you put in food wise, trust me!

you will have no more shell worries soon, so just focus on the rest

This is why I built the K-tank, the jars are a LOT of work. With the K-tank it just runs itself and you can clean, suck/switch water etc. But I do like knowing that if I mess up something with one jar, I have four left that still have live zoea to transfer over. It's a trade off, I guess. Yes, with...

mlakers wrote:And like you had, I have another female pacing around the saltwater pool, ready to drop eggs.

Must be playing the right mood music over there!!

yup just PM me if you need some. I have all sizes from 1mm up Thank you, kuza!! I just spent an hour and a half reading (rereading) through your entire straw breeding thread. Man, it's just SO much work, isn't it? I'm tired just reading all your efforts...and more scared now, too! :shock: It's so e...

yup just PM me if you need some. I have all sizes from 1mm up

If you can ever make your way to Ottawa, I will give you my kreistel tank. I also have a salt-o-meter you can have with it. http://www.hermitcrabassociation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=115152 I built it when I was caring fro my Straw babies but it wasn't completed in time and now it'll never be u...

This is great news!!!

I think you would have to get a gov grant to do this full time.

She's pretty lucky to have you, I can't imagine her with just a normal family.

She looks pretty happy!

Same here, I think it's too cold and still too much like winter.

it's reunion day!


I've been absentee a bit lately myself, way too much going on. Crabs still going and going and going. Need to do a deep clean, ugh.

How deep is your substrate? Maybe you can lightly top it up a few more inches to give him digging room.