HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Oh and a note for anyone who sees this in the future- even with dry, loose sand, my impression as I dug him out was that his burrow had not collapsed. So even though it worked out well, in retrospect I'd have prolly been fine just leaving him buried.

Thanks for the advice. The sand in the I got was actually not sand castle consistency, it was very dry and loose. Based on your reply and some more research I did online, I decided to dig them up. One of them came up healthy, no problem, is moving around and seems completely fine. The other one... i...

Hello, I just adopted some crabs. A few of them were buried when I picked them up, the owner said they had been underground about a month. I brought them home in the tank they were buried in. I drove about 20 minutes with them, and drove as carefully as I could. I didn't really think about this init...