HCA: Hermit Crab Association

There is some cursing b/c of a ludacris song "move out the way" I put in the middle lol We got these crabs from a guy who didn't know what breed they were and I was new to crabs. I felt I read a lot about them, but I didn't realize I would be getting an ecudorian crab thrown in with the PP's. He/she...

I saw this ITTY bitty crab at petsmart and it only had one claw and all of it's legs were gone. It had a shell way too small on. I decided we needed to get it out of there. We've had him for a week and he started getting little gooey bits where his legs would be. Great, I thought. He would hopefully...

Hey everyone. We received 4 crabs last night from someone. Our tank is at 80 degrees and the humidity is at 74%. All of the crabs have moved except for 1. Two of the four have dug down right away and not come back up. They were living in a tank with substrate lower than the width of a pea, so never ...

Also, forget to say thank you so much for your help! One other thing...since I'm getting these crabs from a guy who doesn't want them anymore should I be looking for things like mites? I've read that they can have mites, but I am not sure how prevalent they are. Also, is there anyway to tell if a cr...

Okay that sounds perfect then(as far as the heating pad goes). My substrate is about 3.5 inches at the moment. I wanted to bring it up to about 5 inches with the extra bags coming from amazon this week. The crabs the guy has look very tiny from the pictures. I'm sure in the future I will have to upg...

Hey everyone! My daughter is 9 and interested in getting a couple of hermit crabs. I've done some research and thought it would be a fun pet for both of us to take care of. I even found a guy in the area looking to get rid of a bunch of hermit crabs though we only are looking for 2-3. I started the ...