HCA: Hermit Crab Association

We brought two hermit crabs home from the beach in early July of 2023. In August, they spent the whole month under the sand. (we have a camera, they never came up) Went down August 6th and came up Labor Day weekend. They stayed active through Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving weekend, we upgraded them to a...

We brought 2 purple pinchers home from the beach two months ago. They both dug under approximately a week ago and neither have come up since. We don't think they are very deep because we can see the bump in the sand. Our tank temp/humidity is in the same range too. The temperature ranges from 75-85 ...

Thank you! We feel like they aren't eating either. This is good to know. We will keep exploring fruits and veggies too. I put banana out for them yesterday to try.

Thank you very much!

Thank you again for the quick response. We successfully changed out the sand and both crabs are doing fine. We feel better and I'm sure they do too! Now, to figure out what to feed them. They don't seem to like the food we bought at the store where we got them.

Thank you.

We brought two hermit crabs home from the beach 5 days ago. The crabs have been buried since we built their new home. (one came out for about an hour yesterday, but that's it). They are not eating either (but it's the same food they devoured in the plastic carrier on our way home). We bought a nice ...