HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Color me intrigued! You're one smart cookie, Ryanstein. :D

Will be reading with interest to see what transpires with this project.

Yeah, it should be. It's basically the same stuff as the aquarium sealant that glues glass tanks together. It just won't be waterproof.

Excellent site! You've done a nice job and it looks pretty good! I will take a look through my fridge and pantry tomorrow and see if I've got anything that you need a photo of.

Tetracolor wrote:So, Kili forced me to go harvesting today so I just picked random leaves up off the ground so I have no pics of the trees just the leaves, any help would be greatly appreciated!

They look like tulip tree leaves to me.

Crabs can get STUCK in a painted shell? well, crap my sideways and call me Bruce Wayne! I gotta pray that Snappy gets out of that shell! :( Yeah. I lost one of my first crabs because he'd been put in a painted shell while the paint on the inside was still damp, or maybe the heat of the store's tank...

Why do you want to refrigerate the water? You can just leave it out in the container it came it. And I just can't imagine why the water started to mold. Maybe you could give us more info. Not dechlorinated water-- dechlorinator. I frankly have no idea why it would mold either, if what I saw was mol...

Out of curiosity, is it all right to keep water dechlorinator in the fridge, or will that denature it or something? I just had to replace a big bottle that went foul-smelling and suddenly began growing some sort of gray stuff in the bottom, only god knows how. I'd not even used half the bottle, whic...

Sorry, but it's probably not a great idea. If you really want them to have the cornbread, it may be okay to give them a tiny bit as a treat, just this once, but I wouldn't make anything with table salt a frequent part of their diet. It's just not good for them.

In a perfect world, noone would have to have pesticides on their veggies. All I can tell you is what I would do. Over the next few weeks visit your local farmers market and gather ingredients. Get things with leafy tops as well, really make your money stretch. Steam and chop these foods and then pl...

This has been on my mind for a while. My crabs eat a lot of dry food and not much fresh for most of the year. Obviously it's best to feed crabs organic foods, but if it's not possible to get organic, how risky is it to feed them typical non-organic stuff? I'm fearful of giving my crabs anything with...

This is bad for me.... there are times that I don't get to sit until the night cycle should start...... I have glass tops that the lights sit on and go into the tank. Right now they have a 50/50 bulb for marine life in them. Does everyone have an open aquarium -- or mesh top for their set up -- or ...

When you set up the light, it's best to place the UV light located within 18 inches of the tank. Beyond 18 inches, the UV output diminishes, so for maximum UV absorption the crabs will need to be able to get within that range of the bulb. That probably won't be a big deal, but I thought it's worth m...

I treat dandelions just like lettuce or spinach. I usually don't add the flowers to salad, though. I dry them out and save them to make tea. The most important thing is to make sure you get them from a safe food source like the market. If you just pick them from some random lawn, you could risk seri...

I can vouch that dandelions are great in salad. Yes, human salad. :P

Dandelion tea is good too!

Wow, good timing. I've been wondering about this topic lately myself! Lots of very interesting info here. Allow me to bore you with my lengthy amateur opinions. :wink: My personal take on the UVA/UVB subject is that we probably don't know enough about hermit crab metabolism yet to definitely know ho...