HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Location (nearest large city, state, country): Los Angeles, CA - San Fernando Valley How Far Will You Travel?: Up to 40 minutes; pick-up preferred. Would You Be Willing to Ship? (Applicable in the USA Only): No Number of Crabs, Size of The Crabs, and Species If Known: (Up to) 8 jumbo purple pinchers...

That is so exciting! Congratulations.

Yeah... it's the same material, but a different consistency to what many westerners mean by eco earth. Both are coconut choir, but eco earth is processed into smaller bits, so that it has a consistency closer to soil. That said, the inexpensive product that you've found will probably be a fun toy/tr...

Fantastic! I wish I had the space to build out more of my enclosures to that scale. And I love what you did with the cork background and the cholla! I may think about doing something like that along the sides of my tank, as they're still bare glass, atm. Hmmm.

They'll make it to jumbo size before you know it, if they're properly cared for, so do keep that in mind. All of my crabs are adopted. Have you checked craigslist (if you don't see the HCA rehoming any in your area)? I've even posted my enclosure and said I'm willing to take in new buddies for my cr...

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Fri Dec 04, 2020 8:29 pm

I’m still just as excited I have a bluish/purple color one though!! [emoji3059]


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I love how colorful the PPs can be! I always take it as a sign that they're happy and enjoying their best life.
Enjoy your colorful little one. <3

They love murex. And it's far more affordable than other, size-equivalent shell types that are available at that size.

This might be my worst nightmare. Best of luck to you.

I have a bird treat ball that I got for my guinea pigs, but they never really got into it. This thread is making me realize it might be a great way to make the crabs work for some of their food. The treat toy: https://www.vbirdshop.com/foraging-toys/buffet-ball-foot-toy I also think of regularly swa...

fishlore's a good start. petshrimp.com and skfaquatics.com also have crayfish subforums, perhaps with a higher density of experienced keepers than fishlore.

I've used Napels, and I've also liked U.S. Seashell co for bulk buys, now that most of my crabs are well beyond "jumbo."
http://usshell.com/

Congratulations! And good work by your children for finding you the YouTube videos. Your crabs are lucky to have you, and you and your students will enjoy them.

Mine seem to enjoy watching the events in ApartmentLand. I think of it as environmental enrichment.

I’m on my phone, so I can’t use the emoji where the smiley face is slapping his arm up and down. That is NOT TRUE @jclee!! My isopods bred OUT OF CONTROL in all of my tanks. They were eating all of the crabs food, and at night when I would go in to look at the tanks it was all isopods. The crabs lo...

A less expensive alternative to chillers, depending on your ambient temperature, is to hang fans above the tank. Increased evaporation cools down the temperature. Again, whether this works depends on how hot your apartment gets.