HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Sitting there, watching TV, drinking cocoa, minding my own business, suddenly beseiged by micro gnats. Landing all over me, my iPad, now they're all over the sofa, and my cocoa is now toxic. All this going on ten feet from my crabs. I don't see any in there, but now I want to seal the whole top so they don't get in, but I don't want to suffocate my crabs, either. how can I protect my crabitat from infestation?

Switch to dry foods until you get them under control. You can set up vinegar traps to catch and kill them. Good luck!

Vinegar trap, zero. Fly strip and abandoned cocoa, dozens. :/


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I just scheduled an exterminator for ants! Bugs! Blech!

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Kleinerhejhog wrote:Vinegar trap, zero. Fly strip and abandoned cocoa, dozens. :/

Weird. But yay for the fly strip! No matter how hard I try, I always end up getting my hair caught in those when we've used them. Yuck.

And this evening I am sitting in the exact same spot and haven't seen a single one. I'd like to think I caught them all, hahaha.

I hear you on the hair. Been there.

The exterminator treats outside regularly. Me 'n the fire ants have an ongoing battle. I swear, the wasps are less troublesome than the stupid fire ants.

Spoke too soon, I guess, the rotten little beasties started moving in on me again half an hour ago. Don't know where they hid all day.

I am wondering what the worm like thingies are that mysteriously show up in both water dishes over night. I put the smooth ground foods in food dishes and there were what looked like meal worms in the food dish that had been nearly emptied. I change the salt water and fresh water every 2-3 days..I just did a huge bake the substrate for 12 minutes for my 2o gallon and 10 gallon tanks and sterilized all the toys, rocks shells and dishes... in addition to the meal worm size worms-4-5 in SWD, 1 in FWD and 3 in powdered dish, I saw a long stringy clear tape of what looked like seeds or long fish poop in fresh water tank. I have i large that just came up from molting and 3 medium and 1 very small not moving and looks dead one that I am leaving alone in crab dish. Others leaving him alone also. They all seem pretty healthy since rescuing 3 of them in December and the 2 newer rescues in May. I want to know if crabs poop out worms meal worm size or if something in the tank survived 400 degree 15 minute cook? These guys are very interesting to me and I want to keep them healthy!

It sounds like crab poop.

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Crab poop looks kinda like tiny thin brown macaroni lol! And I find a lot of it in my water dishes.

My big crabs leave really big poop.

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ok- I agree- it is poop! lol. I think Baby Bear the smallest may be surface molting: doesn't fall out of shell moves minimally but does move doesn't stink. I left him home by himself for 7 days with all levels and dry food/ waters. Fingers crossed BB will be okay. I will now go read about surface molting. Thanks everyone.