HCA: Hermit Crab Association

GREAT NEWS! Ariel has came up from molting and even chosen one of the new shells laid out! She’s so big now! So excited! I bought new toys for the tank and hideouts so just waiting on Sebastian to come up before redecorating!

Whew! Glad to hear my two aren’t the only chatter boxes! I’ve been worried and google is definitely not my friend!

I have two pp crabs. They both started molting within weeks of each other at the beginning of December. I’m starting to hear one make really loud chirping sounds at night. Sometimes it’s just once and done sometimes it goes on for 10 minutes. This little crab will chirp about every 2 days and it’s b...

:anon: Hi! I am a new crab owner and I just recently saved two crabs from a friend that bought them from a store at the beach. I’ve had these crabs for about 3 months now. They are two small PP and they were very active for the first two weeks. They came in the toxic painted shells so I immediately ...