HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I feel so stupid. I was raving about the fancy electronic themometer/hydrometer my dad purchased for me last christmas. I just got home from college about a week ago so i decided to clean out the crab tank, and re-arange the 'furniture'. As i pulled out the sensor to the thermometer, i noticed several pieces of exposed wire. It was clearly damaged by crabby claws. I coincidently havent seen any crabs since early november too...i hope it's not related. Its down to the copper in some parts. Can any of you recommend a digital thermometer and/or hydrometer that is crab proof?

AcuRite from Wal-Mart. They cost less than $10. Make sure you calibrated it first.

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Oh nooooooooes!
Other than the suggestion above, try any household hygro/thermo for household use that doesn't have wires - they're just little boxes. Hardware stores and places like Walmart sell them.
Good luck!

If they do have a sensor that's not attached to the original box - except for a wire - then crab proofing it with airline hose does help. Dont worry, my crabs managed to short circuit my house a few weeks back as they cut through the cord of my filter in my SW pool... Which was just under water.... (loud bang, smoke and everything. :/) Airline hose does help stop them from cutting through everything though.

I'm trying to do some troubleshooting for my crab that has not come up from a molt.... Remembering November of last yfor the last year I discovered an old stick on thermometer.... That the crab was eating pieces of. Wondering now if that has poisoned him and just didn't take effect until this past month.

Nope, hes back up and looking healthy yay