Hello I felt the heat mat thats at the back of my tank and it feels hot almost burning none of it is below the substrate and my tank humidity meter says 75°f for the temp but the heat mat is still hot. Just noticed this today and originally i had aluminum foil to keep in heat but now i have removed it. Its a glass tank. There is no on and off switch for the mat and no thermometer. Could this hurt my crab and if it gets to hot could it break the glass of my tank?

Hi guys I love my hermits but for some unfortunate circumstances I have to leave the country and the country that I’m going to reside in does not allow entry to any type of hermit crabs so I can’t take them with me. I would love if anyone can take care of them till I figure out my papers and I can return to Canada, and if you guys would prefer to adopt I’m also open to that possibility cuz I gotta find a place for them before Sunday. You can take all their supplies and also both of their tanks. And I can send every month money for the care of them. I’m really desperate cuz I don’t really have a lot of time and at the moment someone else it’s already taking care of them but only for this week. Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you. (Names are Tristepin and Nausica) sorry for breaking the rules

I thought my boy was surface molting but things got weird in the tank due to technical failures that made the heat skyrocket and I found bugs which I initially thought were ants where my crab was (not on him but I didn’t want them to try to eat him or something so I gently moved him). I thought he had been molting and may be in the post molt phase, but when I noticed the bugs and had to move him my crab was stuck to the decoration he was on. I had to spray some water on the decoration to be able to move him off.

He didn’t even twitch through the process and when I smelled him he did smell a little unpleasant but not like a major dead fish smell the way mystery snails do. Is it normal for a crab to stick to something? Like he wasn’t holding on with his claws, it was like he fused to it (which is why I was careful not to just pull him off). He isn’t limp which is what it says dead hermit crabs do but I don’t know if he died while molting and is now stuck like this or if he could be alive. What do I even do in this situation?

Got Adrien (right) off of Marketplace. Poor baby was kept in a bone dry enclosure with no water or real food. I brought him home a few days ago and got him a nice enclosure (and a buddy!) I named them Rocky and Adrien because Project Hail Mary is PEAK!!
This is my first time owning hermit crabs so it’s a little scary but they are absolutely adorable

Hey y’all! I currently have two fairly large crabs in a 30 gallon tank. I’ve been approved by lhcos and on their list of adopters for a while and just got a request to take one crab, also medium to large. I’ve had a little crab drama over shells from one of my crabs earlier this year when another crab had just come up from a molt but no aggression for a few months now, they seem healthy and happy. I guess I just need someone else to tell me it’s alright to take in another one, or to tell me I won’t have the space and it’s not a good idea. Thoughts?