HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Well at midnight on Tuesday 29th I went to do a final water change and put some food in to feed the mega I was expecting to find when I woke up in the morning. But I discovered a heap of beautiful mega. Right on schedule. So I did the water change and added prime and some marine snow and rotifers an...

Sorry for being slack on reporting but I've been kept pretty busy. On Sat 25th June (middle of our Aussie winter) had found zoea in my salt pool. This is lot number 4 for 2021 so far. There were more in there the next day but I'm positive these are from the one female and she just deposited half eac...

They are getting bigger and bigger. But still tiny and cute. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210613/821477335e1f37ec93d62dbe09c5ee64.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210613/f84ee33728d77eafda09507a5db3378f.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210613/d4044ec5ceda3378d7f8a1552f55c1de.jpg ht...

Prawn is on the tasting table for the babies tonight. Seems to be popular.


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Tiny tunnels being dug. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210508/3fe3baaa70437c5b1d82f7c2e79122f5.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210508/ece9e1fb0c62b565be7b0b7cf3545fcb.jpg Egg is a popular food. This is a tiny piece of scrambled egg. The rest is in a small container in the freezer. https:/...

Now have about 30 on https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210502/0a07c78aa8b7adcebd7aadd0a8d667c3.jpg land and 23 in the water - from a lot that are a month after Nutmeg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210502/d000e59b24fe9c910a6b2e14f4ffdf54.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210502/1ab58b570a0...

I’ve been away for 4 days and a friend has been baby sitting. I’ve just done a rough count and got 30 on land and on the surface. There are still 23 in the water but heading out and 1 streaker in the water. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210502/cf6ecceae7f0f18b1d4360f151e0207d.jpg https://upload...

I have new babies on land this morning on day 14 https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210426/1eb2145b506d834e0a5c091e602606ee.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210426/28c1ec124b1563eafe56a165a4f667e5.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210426/9fcf669f0f0f09159e4dec6f6f1a1718.jpg https://upload...

Nutmeg hanging by the pool waiting for her mates to leave the pool party. Some of the newest mega to join the pool party. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210425/55ca4a5150fdb76f22eb5a60ce52b64f.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210425/b32f2d22140139cfef5b9edc116c999e.jpg Sent from my iPhone ...

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210425/89141966bb2af10e3a771181b4422dbd.jpg I now have 53 in the transition pool. That’s double what I had last time. Plus there are still more mega choosing shells and the odd half dozen swimming around at the top of the water climbing out on the air stone line (...

Tiny babies need tiny amounts of powdered food. Found a tiny mortar and pestle $8 and some tiny jars. The red powder is already fine betta food ground to a dust. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210420/6819a4781a817638cbb975967d80f896.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210420/91f420feb56b9f068...

Pretty sure the father is a captive bred but the females are all rehomed from people who couldn't keep them any more.

The new lots of zoea. One lot are a day ahead of the other and have morphed to zoea 2.


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Nutmeg looking very pretty in pink.


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Yep Nutmeg is officially a baby hermit. Has been since about 3rd April.