HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I’ve gotten to the point I don’t even like opening the lid letting in 65 degree air. So I try to limit it to once a day when I add food and water the moss on the wood which will never becomes established with crabs snacking on it. Although they seem to prefer one variety in particular unless they j...

Thanks, we can't wait to add everyone to it! Our crabs love the tension rods! We wrap them with hemp or jute rope and they love to hang out on them, even the babies. They also make great places to attach ropes and other stuff too. The only downside is that the Flukers rods only stretch to 15". With...

Congrats on the upgrade, i like the supports you did on the background with the tension rods. My crabs would love perching on them. Haha

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Its a risk, but yes you can. Internal issues can arise and lead ti a subsequent fish death, and can happen rather quickly.

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I swear, you take the best pics of your pets! Great shots!

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They likely to use them at night when your asleep. If you decide to upgrade to cycled pools, its your choice. Your not required to. I'm writing up a guide to cycled pools, and its in rough shape. But once its finalised, hopefully it may shed some light and make a little more sense to you. Its not ve...

curlysister wrote:OP registered on Dec 30, and hasn't been on the site since that day. It's too bad! I wish we could help!

Oh. Just realised. Haha, thanks for that.


(Yeahz unlikely they going to respond)

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As soon as I heard it got up to 40C, I knew you were from Australia. Haha, onky Australia does it put you on a slow roast.


I'm interested as well, as it may be a temp related issue, it may be due to other factors.

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Plexi can leak, as it doesn't bond well aith silicone. So keep an eye on it!

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My thermostat had an option that you can alter the max temp drop below a ceetain temp for it to come on. Odd feature, but may be may be the same.

If not, yeah. Sounds defective.

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Sounds like you got a good unit. Be interested to see how it goes.

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He is fine. We've had some HCA members in the past report their crabs communicating with eachother, even when all were underground and moulting, they were hearing them chirp and squeak away! Even then, the crabs really dont seem to mind. For me, my craba act the same when 'solo' compared to when the...

The link may of been in my build: https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink/topic?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehermitcrabassociation%2Ecom%2FphpBB%2Fviewtopic%2Ephp%3Ft%3D118490&share_tid=118490&share_fid=28566&share_type=t&link_source=app But the controller is Microclimate B1 HT magic eye . Basically the HT model...

Renroc wrote:Haircut done. I'm no stylist though so I hope it doesn't mind [emoji38] .

Haha, thankfully they dont have eyes, so we're the unfortunate ones that see!

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I find my crabs to appreciate running water, while I kmow otjer crabbers find their crabs like the water tp be still. Be interesting to see what you find, but generally they do like watrr movement

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