HCA: Hermit Crab Association

No, you don’t have to strain it. A few rocks won’t be harmful.


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Spiders follow food. If there’s nothing there for it to eat it’ll eventually leave.


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It’s a PP

I don’t think being in a moss pit would affect duration. A molt is a molt.


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If it’s bothering you you could always toss it out and start fresh [emoji2369]


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I probably wouldn’t just so you don’t encourage the other crabs to go in and disturb him.


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That’s a very weird substrate smell. Are you sure there isn’t anything that was buried and burned when the substrate was baked?


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Feeding him once a day will suffice. You only need to offer as much as he’ll eat, which isn’t a lot. As for the bathing schedule, you’ll have to play it by ear, but he likely won’t need to be bathed regularly. Editing now to add that all hermit crabs are wild-caught. There are no commercial breeding...

His best bet is to molt and regrow his claws. There’s a good chance he’ll force himself to do it, but in the meantime keep trying to feed him so he has enough energy to survive the process. As for the saltwater, it won’t harm them, and neither will shells. The shells being farm-raised won’t affect t...

Are you sure your hermit crab is molting? It could just like being in there.


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Is your hygrometer calibrated?


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The problem is that we don’t know how hermit crabs do with oils health-wise. Many essential oils are considered to have insecticide-like qualities, but then again hermit crabs aren’t closely related to insects and have been known to eat things insects won’t.


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Also keep in mind that hermits will also plop down just because. If their conditions are good (and it sounds like they are) it may not even be worth worrying about.


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We don’t really know how hermit crabs are affected by cinnamon. Whether or not it’s safe to eat is still an active debate. I personally doubt it’d be harmful, but if you do hang it in your room I’d monitor the crabs for the first few days for changes in behavior to make sure it’s not irritating them...

Your best bets are either Naples Sea Shells or Richard’s Sea Shells. As someone with XL/Jumbo crabs, as well, let me assure you their shells are going to be expensive. There’ve been times when my crabs were all in identical shells because they were the cheapest I could find. Sent from my iPhone usin...

We usually caution the use of calcium sand since it clumps and hardens when wet. Playsand provides a more practical substrate.


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