HCA: Hermit Crab Association

All parts of pumpkin, and the vine it grows on, are edible for hermit crabs, and you can serve it cooked or uncooked - it's entirely up to you! Freezing or drying is a great way to store it for later. Personally I feed mine dried, only because it's how I like to store it. Cooking it may make it easi...

Murex tend to be extremely tight fitting for their opening size, so a one inch opening turbo would be roomy by comparison. I wouldn't go much bigger than that, 1 & 1/16 or 1 & 1/8.

Honestly, I'd just let them sit out and air out for an extended period if at all possible. That may end up being enough. Vinegar, being an acid, is going to dissolve the mother of pearl interior leaving them rough, which means the crabs will be much less likely to choose them and can potentially cau...

The more layers to the backing, the more heat will be held/reflected back into the tank. If it's not enough, you can try doubling the cardboard or foil!

Elongated and jumping bugs are almost always springtails which are both harmless and beneficial! Truly harmful crab mites are extremely rare and can only come from other crabs as they can only survive by eating live hermits, they cannot jump and will only be found on the crabs.

Beetle jelly! Wow, is that similar to cricket quencher? Beetle jelly is entirely plant based using agar, and offers complete nutrition for certain species of beetles that are kept as pets. Cricket quencher is plastic polymers that absorb fluid (same stuff in baby diapers), sometimes with vitamins o...

Hermits can absorb moisture from things like moist dirt via capillary action, but I haven't seen anything where they can do so with salts to regulate their shell water salinity levels. So food wise it would likely be fine, and even for basic hydration it would probably work (depending on actual ingr...

Hi. You never gave a location. Even a rough idea of where you are or can meet can help with matching you to a local adopter!

There's always the chance for a fluke injury from falling, but I can tell you this has happened to multiple crabs of mine over the years in similar circumstances and they were always fine.

I can delete this for you if you want. I thought you had posted the apology about the fact that there was a glitch and this got posted twice, or the other post you edited to say you wanted it deleted. I cleaned those up as it would have just caused more confusion.

There were followup questions asked! And it was never removed or deleted

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I see two possible issues after googling a bit on on this species. Molting. There's some posts saying Taiwanese crabs do dig, which can cause issues with hermits who are stuck in one place for a few weeks while they molt. I'm not seeing anything on how the Taiwan crabs molt with a quick search, but ...

Purple pinchers are known as tree crabs in their native ranges, so any vertical climbing space you can give them will be used!

Bubbling is a troubling sign of envrionmental stress - anything from temperature extremes to chemical exposure so while it's a red flag it doesn't narrow it down by much. Is there anything different that they could have been exposed to? Seasonal weather changes? I would do a bath if it were mine, ju...

And they can absolutely look "normal" after passing, if the conditions allow for it. I've had crabs die here at home and also found crabs at the store that were intact and looked as if they were resting and were pulled in so tight there was no wiggling them, but were for sure already gone. A little ...