HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Ultratherm UTHs are hard to come by in Canada....I don't want to say impossible because maybe some people have found them, but I haven't LOL. There is a Fluker's available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Flukers-Reptiles-Small-Animals-Inches/dp/B00164PW9S If you have a local pet store, you could ta...

Fellow Canadian here, I hear your pain about heat mats. I have a 55 gallon tank, and have one mat on each side and two on the back. Two are crappy Zoo Med ones that can't be insulated over top, and two are better (from Bean Farm). It works for me because the room where I have my tank varies greatly ...

At least four months, if not more. Digging up a crab can have very bad consequences. If he's dead underground, digging gets you nowhere.

Jlmills525 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 02, 2022 1:36 pm

They want to be able to sell them at the drop of a pin... don't want to risk waiting for molters to come up

Exactly this. The more they sell, the more money they make. And really, it's 'better' (as in less risk for the crabs) to have shallow sub than to be dug up (temporarily).

Yes, if you have room to do that, then you would know that he has the same temp and humidity as your main tank (I am presuming that you have gauges on the main tank, and that the temp and humidity are good in there), but in his weakened state the other crab won't be able to get to him.

Your image isn't visible, you will need to use an image sharing site. Or post from the app Tapatalk. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you have kept your crab in unknown or suboptimal conditions for almost three months. You need to get him back into proper conditions asap, in order to give hi...

Pet stores purposefully don't have deep substrate, because then the workers would have to dig up crabs that could be molting.

I've had my hermit crab, Papillion, for about 2 years now. I'd lost the other two I got with him. He's been alone for a few months now, so I decided to get him a couple buddies. He'd seemed a little mopey lately, but when I brought the new guys over, he immediately sprang to life and went over to o...

I know for sure the one who just passed molted and my other one is currently molting. I believe the other crabs might have molted as well but I don’t know for sure Unfortunately, crabs often go through so much before we get them, that they just can't recover and survive - even if we have perfect co...

Have any of your crabs molted when you had them?

Here's the HCA guide to how many crabs in what size of tank, it depends on the size of the crabs. If they are small, it may be a while until you need to upgrade.

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Don't worry until at least the four month mark.
The way I look at it is that if they are dead, there is nothing to be gained by digging them up. But if they are molting, digging them up at the wrong time could potentially be deadly.

Hi! Sounds like your crabitat is set up nicely. Do you have a hygrometer/thermostat? Do you know if your hermie is resting by a heat pad? My hermies used to hang out outside of their shells near a heat pad because of hot spots within the tank. The easier way I fixed this was putting them near a hou...

JTKermie wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 22, 2021 6:39 pm

Do you use or recommend using straight eco earth?

Straight eco earth is fine, straight sand is fine.

There really are very few bugs that end up in our tanks that are harmful to the crabs.
Have you checked the 'bugs' care sheet, to see if they are on there, rather than mites?

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