HCA: Hermit Crab Association

My tank stats: I have 9 hermit crabs. 2 are jumbos and 4 are larges, 1 is a medium, and 2 are small. I’ve been keeping hermit crabs for 8 years. All of my crabs are adopted from families that couldn’t keep them. I have had no new additions in about 6 months. My hermit crabs live in a 90 gallon habit...

I think that maybe my favorite hermit crab, Madonna, who I have had for 8 years, has died. But, I can’t tell for sure. About 3 weeks ago, my programmable humidifier malfunctioned, and basically dumped a ton of water in the area of the tank below the output tube. Madonna had dug down to molt right in...

SAN FRANSCISCO BAY AREA I am willing to drive several hours in any direction. I’m not comfortable with shipping. I have 6 hermit crabs. 3 are jumbos and 2 are larges and 1 is a medium. I’ve been keeping hermit crabs for 6 years. All of my crabs are adopted from families that couldn’t keep them. I a...

Thanks:) All of my PPs came together, and had been living together for a year before they came to live with me, so I’ve not really seen dominance issues before. I’ve been lucky. I’d never had a fight with injuries before, and everyone’s always been super healthy, popping up and down for their molts ...

I keep trying to think of what I could have done differently, what changed, what went wrong. The only thing that changed was that I added a bigger saltwater dish, in preparation for the strawberry, thinking it might want to have a dish big enough to swim in. The saltwater was part of 20 gallons we m...

Some other information: Before the gage broke, my tank humidity was about 87%, give or take a percent in either direction. My tank stays about 85°F, though it can go up to 87 or 88 on a warm day. My water is RO water, purchased from a machine at our local grocery store. We’ve tested it, and it seems...

I just adopted a strawberry Hermit yesterday from a person on Craigslist. He said he’d had the strawberry for a year, and that it just finished it’s 3rd molt with him on Thursday. We just noticed a leg laying on ground. The strawberry is now in a ten gallon ISO. I have 3 jumbo hermit crabs, who I’ve...

I am new to hermit crabs, and I am setting up my first crabitat. I am really excited about this, and any and advice about how to better set up my crabitat, or recommendations about the products I am considering using, would be very welcome. I will of course , be setting up all the food and water nec...