bath them in filtered water or bottled water.

tap water contains chlorine that is hazardous to the hermit crab's health.

Mine bath by ownself. They would just sit in the water dish as they are in a bath tub, soak awhile and crawl out of it. Fromy my speculation, it soak inself 2 time per day.

Currently both of my crabs is prepping to go through its 6th mouting session.. so i cant do anything or any shifting.. sigh.. so bored

great to hear that your hermies are molting! i read that jumbo size hermie molts for 2-3 months! that means you cant get to play with it for so long... >.<

anyway, i got a minor problem here guys. my crabitat will smell even after one day. is this normal? i think its because of the crabworx food+wet subtrate that make it smell.

how ar?

that's why, when you feed your hermit crabs, the food is to be place in a feeding bowl , you need to observe the feeding patern. initially all of them will gather around the food and eat together.

you need to remove the food left overs, when you see your hermit crab isn't paying attention to the food. remove the food bowl, and food bits & shreds on the sand bed. I admit it is a tedious thing to do, for housekeeping your crabitat.

rotting and decomposing organic matter such as food waste will surely make your crabitat smells.

This post has been edited by blitzboy: Jun 15 2008, 12:24 AM

feeding bowl? oh.. okies.

i should have thought of that.

guys...i've been wondering...where u get the shells for the crabbies?..
u pick it up by the beach?...or u just buy it from the shop?...
the shop that sell me the hermit crab ran out of shell that slightly bigger for my largest hermit crab in the tank....


This post has been edited by arif2002: Jun 16 2008, 02:28 AM

actually it is both. i pick the shell from beach and some of the shells i bought from shop.

here is a pic of my hermies sleeping peacefully in the cointainer.




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Hahaha.. love how the crabs sleeps... its even funnier when they sleep with the belly up.

blitzboy: thanks for the info bro... if u bought it from shop, which shop u buy it from?...is it the one in 1u?... or there are other shops that sell it?

ahtiven: nice one bro...

This post has been edited by arif2002: Jun 17 2008, 03:15 PM

there aren't many shop selling shells for hermit crabs. The shop in 1-utama is so far still selling,

i am afraid it is due hermit crabs keepers are among the very few of us, and in our population there aren't many of us who really serious about keeping hermit crabs, many have died in captivity because sold to inexperience keepers who just buy it on impulsive or just because hermit crabs are cute.

i wonder what impact of us keeping them towards the hermit crab population in the wild. As I said, no one has even captive bred land hermit crab ever in this whole world. Therefore all hermit crabs are collected from the wild.

This post has been edited by blitzboy: Jun 17 2008, 10:46 PM

this afternoon i went to mv pets wonderland. got myself another exo terra water dish and normal salt. (red sea salt package too big and $$)

is normal blue salt ok?

then i got myself another exo terra container which 5-6 times bigger than my previous container. superb quality best buy!

got myself white sand as the substrate as well. wanted to get the exo terra cave but the entrance is too small to go in.

lastly, went down to carrefour and got myself another two new hermit crabs!! :D

what do i need for my crabitat some more?

i think they need some ice breaking atm, the bigger ones keeping pushing the smaller one. poor crab.

This post has been edited by ahtiven: Jun 23 2008, 06:07 PM

hi...
almost all of use Red Sea sea salt, normal blue salt is not advisable, however it is only for temporary.
bigger hermit crabs will often push smallers ones away claiming terratory, and right of walkway and also hidding spot.
it is normal, and u will see they will communicate using claws and antennae when they bump into each other face to face.

yup...so true...not many shop that sell shells for hermit crab...
but yesterday i manage to find another one besides 1u...
its in danau kota, setapak...
much nearer to my place...
they dont sell that much thou...but still there's a few to choose from..



eik??!!... mv carrefour selling hermit crabs ??.. didn't know that..
maybe i shud check it out this weekend..



yup... the bigger ones looks territorial..
its interesting to watch them communicating when they bump to each other...

are you saying that red sea salt is still the best? then maybe next trip. but the blue salt wasted la...

btw, one of the newly bought always sit nearby the salt water dish and dip his face into the salt water. he can do this for hours..... is this okay?

when i brought them home, they were so hungry they ate the apple tidbits and crab pellet that i gave them non-stop! honestly this is the first time i saw they eat in front of my eyes hahaha

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Added on June 24, 2008, 10:18 pmomg, i went to the shop in 1u that sells hermit crabs...

very disappointing shop.... 5-6 small crabs only. and the shells sold there all round opening and small.

wasted time and $$ purposely went to that shop..zzz

anyone can tell me where to buy D-shape opening shells? very desperate ...

This post has been edited by ahtiven: Jun 24 2008, 10:18 PM

blue salt? is it the RM1/ packet for the fresh water aquarium one? If yes, better throw it away.

By the way, how big the D shaped shell you need? I mean the opening.

nope, rm3 per pack that one. lol

they seem like it tho..

opening is around 2 inches i think, most important is they can put their legs all in. guess must need bigger size shells.

you have?

2 inches? i look around first. btw, is there a fish picture on the salt packet? Anyway, I dont think you should use it. It could be dangerous. Why not buy a big packet? They last for a very very long time. Or you could share with your friends.

sure, look around then let me know kays?

i will get the rea sea salt next trip. rm20+ per packet.

are there any smaller packets?

red sea salt..... smallest packet is 4kg size. that is the smallest packaging i see in the market.