HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I really need to know about if my other crabs have shell disease asap, things are so messy right now and I have other pets to attend to plus almost every crab is being kept separate, i cant handle all this and some of my crabs probably won't survive long living in tupperwares. pls help me i'm litera...

I pm'd her last night. will fish antibiotics, turtle fix or reptile skin spray also work for the crab? I saw other people mention that. If not, do people online with hermit crabs sell these things?

The links are fixed :)

These are two other crabs I'm wondering about:

this one
https://flic.kr/p/2h9Jpue
https://flic.kr/p/2h9LYF4

and this one
https://flic.kr/p/2h9Jr1k

I am able to view this picture. It looks like shell rot to me. If so, it is contagious. Please PM Wodesorel and ask for her to view this post to get her opinion as well. If so, you need to do the medicinal bath that is recommended. Do I have to do a deep clean on the tank? Do I also need to disinfe...

They're safe, it's just that people usually view stems as trash. anything that is in the leaves has gone through the stem. You could even feed them the roots if you wanted to. It's not poisonous

Crabs can eat with both claws. If one is weak I would just isolate the weak one. Sometimes crabs lose limbs when they're molting, and that can be from either stress, fights, poor tank conditions, or mites.

https://www.flickr.com/gp/184029979@N06/084a5K
ok so i really think 99% of whats in the HCA guide to sending images is very outdated and partly also it is very hard to follow. can i have help sending real images here

Ok this is the image. He has those grayish bruises on him
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipP ... exin6B_tEn

I can't post images until the hurricane stops messing up the wifi, and it's going to be a google photos link because I'm not going go through [insert large description here] just to post images when every single other website with image sharing lets you do it so easily

I also own Halloween crabs. They're my favorite and the most exotic crab. Does it have fresh water too? (either completely natural spring water or purified water) It's a little unfortunate if your parents make you keep them somewhere where there's a lot of noise or activity. They're more of a room p...

The darker colored one is Jack. The lighter one is Sally. (reference to the species name) Them being playful: https://flic.kr/p/2h9Lmq7 https://flic.kr/p/2h9JA2B https://flic.kr/p/2h9JAdD (sleeping) https://flic.kr/p/2h9McoD Sally's model pics: https://flic.kr/p/2h9MdbF https://flic.kr/p/2h9Lp8G htt...

All crabs are nocturnal, but some individuals might be awake during the day for any given reason.

Move the crabs anywhere just please get them out of there, even if they're going to be spending some time in just a plastic box with nothing in it. They will kill your crabs. You're just going to have to deep clean that tank and try placing it somewhere else where you haven't seen ants.

About needing to move when a crab might be molting, I don't really know what to tell you. I would just drive carefully and make sure the tank can't move too much. I would just check if he doesn't come up in a week and a half, and if he is molting it's no big deal. You could isolate him and put him s...