HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Hi everyone! I don’t usually post much but one of my hermit crabs has recently figured out how to climb out of the tank. I have the top of the tank covered in tin foil to help keep humidity in. As part of my crab’s “escape plan,” he ate a lot of tin foil to make a hole big enough for him to slip out...

Hello! I have gotten a betta fish and snail that live together in a 5 gallon tank that I’ve noticed could fit in my hermit crab tank. I was curious if Hermit crabs would be able to safely get water from the betta tank if I designed it so they could climb in and out without disturbing the fish? This ...

I'm not sure if this is where my issue should go, but about 2 weeks ago, I caught one of my hermit crabs (Apollo) climbing out of the tank by using the heating pad cable to reach the top. He's small enough to fit through the little opening I have so the cable can go through. It was late at night so ...

I’m not really sure if this would fit in crab behavior, molting, or crabitat, but I have a total of 6 hermit crabs in a 60 gallon tank that has sand with varied height (the peak is about a foot, and the valley is about 6-8 inches), however, 2 and sometimes 3 of them end up digging so deep that i can...