HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Ok. Update: he pushed up the driftwood and crawled out. Hermione came and sat on top of him on Monday. Then, on Tuesday, she had buried both of them. As of this morning, Hermione is mostly submerged and Crusty is chilling under the driftwood again, with all his legs out and a hole to the surface rig...

In the center of my crab tank right now is a bag piece of driftwood. A few days ago my crab Crusty Sean dug out a space under the driftwood to get some privacy. Then, yesterday, my other crab Hermione moved in front of the hole and pushed some sand in front of it. Crusty is still down there and I wa...

I have two hermit crabs, Crusty Sean and Hermione. We’ve had Crusty for a few months and Hermione we got a few days before Christmas. Crusty was always super lazy, but now he moves around more than he used to. He comes out closer to 9, rather than 10, and stuff like that. Hermione, meanwhile, almost...

I'm not that experienced on this, but I think that they might be more stressed and are trying to find a more humid/ warmer place to hide. The same reason they are so active outside the tank. They are frightened and slowly suffocating. (Assuming the travel tank is not set up right) The substrate is ...

I have two hermit crabs, and when we got the first one, we brought him home in a pretty small tank that we switched out after about a week. When we got my second crab, we brought her home in the same small tank, before putting her in the big one. We were just on a long car trip and we put them in th...