HCA: Hermit Crab Association

First higher humidity won't hurt them. Although you should be careful of mold or flooding. Crabs can stay under months sometimes when they burry so try not to worry. A question? Your sand is warm? Where is your heater? What is your tank temp? Or wjat thermometer or hydrometer do you use? Has it been...

Crabby7Crabber wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 12, 2020 7:10 pm

Ooh, yes! Do tell how they're doing!

Yes please

Hey Kimberly Welcone to HCA. Others above me have listed great advice. I also sugguest you look around thr forum. There are several helpful topics from favorites foods to basic care that can be helpful.

Oh Lord I'm scared! Give me some time to mull this over, I have 9 crabs who I can no longer keep track of. I don't know who's who anymore besides the few who have really striking colors. I am at least very interested in this experiment and I believe that it is beneficial! Sent from my cp3705AS usin...

Mystery Shell:

I came home today to find a small empty green turbo in the tank. All crabs are safe and accoubted for in their own shells so i do not know where the mystery one came from. I suppose it is possiable I missed one a crab drug off somewhere.

Yeah I think I'll participate as a control. I think there should definitely be another control for a larger colony size as well. I'm excited to see results in a year or so :D Hopefully some more people will be intrested. I get there hesitancy. It is also why I started for a while before posing it o...

I think several on here use plastic. Just make sure the crab can climb out of it. Usually craft mesh or river rocks or shells and branches or any combination would work.

Many people siggest usong Tupperware dishes from the dollar store

It could be in a way. It would be your choice. And I do realize some people do keep singletons. Yours would be more of a control or if you chose to remove shells you would be able to document intrest or lack there of easier.

I usually use Naples as well

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Teeny = marble
Small = quarter-50c piece
Medium = 50c piece-golf ball
Large = golf ball-tennis ball
Jumbo = baseball

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For sizing I would like everyone to use these guidelines. Also would anyone volenteer to be a control group. The only thing you would need to do is observe shell intrest and any shell changes or frequency.

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Not sure if I'm going to participate yet, but just some advice to help keep this accurate and repeatable, maybe make a standard way for sizing crabs? I know there's some varied opinions on what constitutes what, so maybe stick to one measuring system. And yes, definitely get some control groups. Th...

Crabby7Crabber wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:01 pm

I might try it, just want to see what happens with yours after a while!

Thats fine too.

Hermiesguardian wrote:I'm going away this weekend, so I'll wait till I get back.

That is fine just let me know

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