HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Update***. It’s still alive! I still have it isolated and it hasn’t yet been out and about. I haven’t touched him. I did spy what I think was him eating at the egg shell. It has moved and dug in but I haven’t seen him move for a week+/-. Since then our other crab has dug in and I haven’t seen it for...

Thank you! I did bury him.😢 He is now isolated within his tank. I placed him on top of about three inches of substrate (coconut sand mixture) and covered him gently with a scallop she’ll open at one side. I placed an organic egg shell under there with him. He has access to distilled water. Should I ...

Our first molt and my husband flushed the exoskeleton while I was reading about it! What can we provide for the calcium and minerals it will need. Also, he was cleaning the tank. Do we just bury the poor fellow again? I think it is not mobile currently. Do we need to hide it from our other crab? Tha...