HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I'm HAPPY to announce the tiny cup idea worked! She is now successfully back into her shell! Thank you to everyone who helped today. You saved her precious life

She's smart, she put half her body in the water dish to not dry out, I know this sounds odd but I'm not sure she knows what to do, maybe instinct doesn't take over when their frightened or sick even? I wish one of my other crabs could just communicate and be like hey just find a shell you'll be fine...

Im in San Ramon California, feel free to message me. I'll send pictures of the shell and measure it. I know thank you this is so sad

update: It's 6:12 am, my tiny E has been found. She dug herself a cave like area around her naked shell less self. Since she is so so small, she is in ISO, with 5 other tiny shells to choose from. Water and food, expect the shells I have seem a tab too big, I'm worried I can't help her, finding new ...

My very teeny tiny E. Crab is not in its shell, I cannot find it surface level throughout the crabitat. I'm nervous it was eaten by my Much lager PP. or is it possible it's molting naked? Help. Need some answers!

Total bully!!

successful molt Been awhile since I've posted, Tarz molted! I know it's a no no but i hadn't seen TWO of my crabs since 2 months ago, my tank started smelling. I bought new substrate. I gently searched my tank for my little guys, found where Tarz was and scooped a big pile up along with dirt not to...

Okay so.. I need some help. 1st thing, gus Gus, my very shy ️️pp basically... Hates me. And this makes me so sad, I have the whole crabitat set up so nice and did everything I was suppose to, I feed dinner with tons of variety of fresh fruits , honey , popcorn , almonds, walnuts ( and coconut! ) but...

So..my shy PP, gus gus rarely shows face, even at night, he's a sneaky one.. Well the other day after feeding them popcorn, like I've never seen before there was gus Gus enjoying the Popcorn, this is great. But the next day, I found his shell. And no Gus gus? Well he went into a completely different...

And pps.. I just caught Tarzan eating some popcorn, it's 1040 am! lol I'm dying of laughter right now, i put the light on him and it was like he got caught red handed just staring at me like " I'm not doing anything mom" with that blank stare look, while a giant piece lays underneath him! Haha, he i...

All 3 were loving last nights snack! And I set up my phone charged and video taped what goes on while I'm sleeping, it's pretty entertaining if you want to try, then I mushed it into a 30 second clip with time laps on my iPhone. Needless to say, they were crazy for popcorn! I've heard this before un...

tarzans story, Hi guys this is my second post, check out conCRABulations for more info about Tarzan the PP, So clearly he lives up to his name, I'm assuming he's a he, not sure he could be a she ( how can you tell) in that case her name would be Jane ;). Anyways, so I went to work, came home and usu...

Hi crabbies! This is our First post, we wanted to share our story and get some feed back or just entertain our journey so far. I bought two Hermies (pp's) medium size about a week a half ago, I didn't decide the name until I saw what their personalities were like. Tarzan was all to fitting and Gus G...