HCA: Hermit Crab Association

The higher the humidity, the easier it is for mold to grow. Has your hygrometer been calibrated recently? It could be giving you a low reading. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk No, I haven't calibrated it yet. Just looked through the pinned posts, I'll get right on that. Agree with Joe. I often f...

The mold is not harmful to the crabs, but it can trigger allergies in humans. I’ve had mold like that, and when I did I just scooped it out. It never came back unless there was food laying around for it to colonize. Can you tell what it may be growing on? Even a single crumb or pellet on a moist su...

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Thanks for all the advice! I left him be for a few hours, but I started getting worried so I looked a little closer as to what he was pinching onto. Turns out, he wasn't stuck because he was pinching, but because one of his legs got stuck down into a small hole in the decoration. I was able to pry o...

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