HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Thanks for all the advice. I've decided to buy food from THCP, but only the Crabtastic Food. The Crabtastic Food is 100% natural and organic. It has absolutely no chemicals :D and it seems super awesome. Is four dollars an ounce to expensive? Am I going to be spending lots of money every month for m...

Okay. Looking back it was actually Flunker's food that the shop was carrying. So the shop may not have been aware. In general I like their products. Do any of you recommend the feeder spoon?

Okay, thanks! There's been unsafe food from the Hermit Crab Paych before. Some of their foods carry copper sulfate, as well as bone meal and suspicious "trace elements". Most of my food, because of this, is ordered off of Esty or I make it. I particularly enjoy Crabtastic and The Happy Hermit Supply...

Hello! I am interested in purchasing two or three (or four, or five, or six, or one hundred :wink:) purple pinchers. I have done lots of research on hermit crabs and know, hopefully, all I need. However, I am wondering if this supplement is good for my little crabbies. I don't want to slowly poison ...

Agreed. They're also more likely to pinch, some will abandon shell and run naked when picked up, and they can become aggressive as they grow larger. And they do get just as big as PPs, just in tighter shells! Not just a bigger tank and deepers substrate, but more heat and more stable humidity as we...

Thanks! As for your question, I'm interested in getting two Ecuadorians. I was going to go with purple pinchers, but they can get big and their claws are kinda scary.

Hello fellow hermit crab enthusiasts! I'm new to the hermit crab world and am interested in getting some crabs (probably 2 PP). I've read a bit about them and was wondering what supplies I need for the "crabitat", how much it will cost per month/year to have to hermies, and also how to get over fear...