HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Everyone has different opinions on this. Some people are more hands on than others. It depends on "personality" ofthe crab as well- not to humanize them. I personally choose not to hold my crabs unless necessary, I may or may not be scared of getting pinched, and I just feel like it stresses them o...

I was wondering about the handling of our hermmies. I joined a page on Facebook hoping for some helpful information with research of some sort other than 'because the admin says so'. I posted a picture of one of my crabs in my hand and got told it is very harmful to the crabs to handle them. I asked...