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hermit crabs

Get Pre-Approved to Adopt Captive Bred Hermit Crab Babies

2019-11-14
In: General
Tagged: adopt, adoption, bred, breeding, captive, hermit crabs

We are excited to finally open up the applications for this year’s captive bred babies born at Hermit House Breeding! Full details; 2020 Captive Bred Hermit Crab Adoption Application is Now Open!   Donate to the cause!Read More →

Photo of dried cholla - Cholla Queen

Cholla Queen – Courtney Iris Karr

2019-11-02
In: Petstore
Tagged: buy, cholla, choya, decor, food, hermit crabs, queen, shop, store

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Crafty Blue Dinosaur

2019-06-19
In: Petstore
Tagged: food, hermit crabs, store, supplies, theme

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Two Old Crabs

2019-06-19
In: Petstore
Tagged: food, hermit crabs, store, supplies, theme

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Hermit Hideaway

2019-06-19
In: Petstore
Tagged: food, hermit crabs, store, supplies, theme

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Cape Horn Pets

2019-06-12
In: Petstore
Tagged: food, hermit crabs, store, supplies, theme

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Managing grain mites in the crabitat

2018-08-25
In: Crabitat, FAQ
Tagged: crabitat, food, grain, hermit crabs, mites, tank

Written by Anne Grady Food mites, more properly called grain mites are something that can be found in any tank at any time. The first thing to understand is that they did not come from the crabs, having hermit crabs does not cause you to have food mites. Food mites come into your home through the everyday things you buy at the grocery store. Anything that contains grain can have food mites. Oatmeal, grits, breakfast cereal, noodles, flour and rice are a few examples. In general you won’t see them and they are harmless, but that box of corn meal or pancake mix that getsRead More →

Removing hard water stains

2018-01-07
In: Crabitat
Tagged: build up, clean, hard, hermit crabs, remove, residue, stains, water

You finally scored that awesome tank at a killer price but now how do you clean it?? If the tank is simply dirty but no actual build up on the glass, the cleaning process is pretty straight forward. A mild detergent can be used with hot water to wash away dirt and grime. Use a mild bleach solution 1:10 ratio to sanitize the tank in case of parasites or disease. Follow up with a thorough rinse with water and then white vinegar. Allow to air dry 24 hours. Dealing with stubborn build up on the glass is more challenging. Some stains may never come off.Read More →

flooded substrate

Where is all of the water coming from?

2017-03-05
In: Crabitat, General
Tagged: bacteria, crabitat, ecoearth, false bottom, flood, hermit crabs, water

A couple years ago when we created our Facebook group to go along with our website I was shocked to find so many people with flooding issues and bacterial blooms in their crabitats. The response to this was a false bottoms.  In 14 years of crab keeping I’ve never encountered this, so it’s on my mind all the time…where is all the water coming from? I think I may be on the path to the root cause – overly wet substrate at the beginning. When you take sandcastle wet sand, add wet ecoearth, add bubbler pools and heat and it’s no wonder the humidity inRead More →

Photo Credit: Mary Milhorn Trichoderma outbreak in spaghnum moss

Substrate method update – moss

2017-02-23
In: Crabitat
Tagged: hermit crabs, moss, trichoderma

We are amending our recommendation regarding moss. While moss is safe and should be offered in your crabitat we no longer believe it is safe to MIX the moss into your substrate or to layer it under your substrate. In the video below you will see a newly set up crabitat (not the owners first crabitat, she was upgrading) with moss layered under the substrate to test a natural false bottom, as was previously done on All Things Crabby. It rapidly developed an out break of Trichoderma that went all the way through the moss to the other side of the tank in one week.Read More →

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