HCA: Hermit Crab Association

hey all!! sorry for the delay i have been working a crazy amount! turns out my crab somehow ripped a sticky square that was holding up a climbing wall off and ripped it apart

Thank u GB! Where can I get the correct salt and dechlorinator for water? Should I just order it online? Also, I keep my heat lamp hung high and far away from any fire hazards, and the clingwrap over the top has completely fixed the previous issues I had with the light taking away humidity. Is this ...

Overnight a fairly large amount of white, not fuzzy, chunks appeared? It looks remarkably like styrofoam and I have never seen it before.

I will get everything you guys told me to thank you! When I get another crab(I am under the impression they should not live alone, is that true?), is there anything I need to do to get them used to each other?

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Hi there! I have just a couple questions that I don’t think are emergencies as my crab appears to be doing fine. This particular crab used to come up from underground around 10/11 at night, but I haven’t seen him in a while. I know he comes up because he causes a mess! I was just wondering if theres...

Thank you so much!! I did not even think about using dechlorinated water for the substrate, so I will redo it since I will make it deeper anyway. I started baths because he stopped climbing in the water himself, and a long time ago when I had them it was pushed to bathe, but I will stop that, and I ...

Since you've come to the emergency forum, we know you want a fast answer to your question. In order for us to figure out the problem as quickly as possible, we ask that you answer the following questions as best you can. Some of them may seem odd, but they're all designed to give us the information...