Regular Member Fish Of Gold Posted June 22, 2015 Regular Member Share Posted June 22, 2015 Can you post pics of your hermit crabs and their tank? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member goldfishfanforever Posted June 22, 2015 Author Regular Member Share Posted June 22, 2015 Can you post pics of your hermit crabs and their tank? I have taken the pics about to upload them as well Just a warning the two new ones are up so they have been photographed but the other one that I have had for 6 weeks is still down either molting, destressing or dead only time will tell 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member goldfishfanforever Posted June 22, 2015 Author Regular Member Share Posted June 22, 2015 So here are some pics of my hermit crabs and there current tank. The tank they are in is a 20 gallon but I am upgrading them to a 33 gallon soon with 8-10 inches of coocnut fibre and play sand substrate hope you enjoy: The tank: Hermit crabs eating coconut: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Flipper Posted June 22, 2015 Regular Member Share Posted June 22, 2015 What's that white thing in the last picture? They're very pretty btw 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member goldfishfanforever Posted June 22, 2015 Author Regular Member Share Posted June 22, 2015 What's that white thing in the last picture? They're very pretty btw Thank you the white thing is a cracked coconut and also they have changed shells again:) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Fish Of Gold Posted June 23, 2015 Regular Member Share Posted June 23, 2015 Thank you for the pictures! Your Hermies are lucky to have a nice fresh coconut. I have only given mine shredded dried coconut. I have seen whole ones in the grocery store but wouldn't know how to crack it open. How did you open your coconut? I have that same plant that you have between your shell shop and moss pit I see that you have some really good shells available for them. Your hermies will love it if you do upgrade to a 33 gallon My hermit crabs are in two 40 gallon breeder tanks and at the rate they are growing over the past 2 1/2 years I will end up having to upgrade too! Your tanks look really nice, you did a good job 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Flipper Posted June 23, 2015 Regular Member Share Posted June 23, 2015 Thank you for the pictures! Your Hermies are lucky to have a nice fresh coconut. I have only given mine shredded dried coconut. I have seen whole ones in the grocery store but wouldn't know how to crack it open. How did you open your coconut? I have that same plant that you have between your shell shop and moss pit I see that you have some really good shells available for them. Your hermies will love it if you do upgrade to a 33 gallon My hermit crabs are in two 40 gallon breeder tanks and at the rate they are growing over the past 2 1/2 years I will end up having to upgrade too! Your tanks look really nice, you did a good job You need an ice pick or screw driver and put it in one of the holes and wack it with a hammer Check it out on YouTube 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Fish Of Gold Posted June 23, 2015 Regular Member Share Posted June 23, 2015 Thank you for the pictures! Your Hermies are lucky to have a nice fresh coconut. I have only given mine shredded dried coconut. I have seen whole ones in the grocery store but wouldn't know how to crack it open. How did you open your coconut? I have that same plant that you have between your shell shop and moss pit I see that you have some really good shells available for them. Your hermies will love it if you do upgrade to a 33 gallon My hermit crabs are in two 40 gallon breeder tanks and at the rate they are growing over the past 2 1/2 years I will end up having to upgrade too! Your tanks look really nice, you did a good job You need an ice pick or screw driver and put it in one of the holes and wack it with a hammer Check it out on YouTube Ahh ok! Thanks for the tip I'll have my Fiancé do it for me , I'll probably smoosh my hand or something 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member goldfishfanforever Posted June 23, 2015 Author Regular Member Share Posted June 23, 2015 Thank you for the pictures! Your Hermies are lucky to have a nice fresh coconut. I have only given mine shredded dried coconut. I have seen whole ones in the grocery store but wouldn't know how to crack it open. How did you open your coconut? I have that same plant that you have between your shell shop and moss pit I see that you have some really good shells available for them. Your hermies will love it if you do upgrade to a 33 gallon My hermit crabs are in two 40 gallon breeder tanks and at the rate they are growing over the past 2 1/2 years I will end up having to upgrade too! Your tanks look really nice, you did a good job You need an ice pick or screw driver and put it in one of the holes and wack it with a hammer Check it out on YouTube Ahh ok! Thanks for the tip I'll have my Fiancé do it for me , I'll probably smoosh my hand or something You can do that or smash the three holes at the end with a screw driver, get the coconut milk out and wake it on concrete or stone really hard 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member goldfishfanforever Posted June 27, 2015 Author Regular Member Share Posted June 27, 2015 My hermit crabs are still doing well, changing shells and be little devils 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member goldfishfanforever Posted July 6, 2015 Author Regular Member Share Posted July 6, 2015 My first crab came up from a molt last night and now both of the new crabs have tried to get its shell I believe as they grabbed around the shell lip and wouldn't let go until I had to scare them off the shell but I hope everything will be okay between those three. If its not my fish having problems its my other little devils 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member goldfishfanforever Posted July 8, 2015 Author Regular Member Share Posted July 8, 2015 Moved them into the new tank after re-arranging my room will get pics tomorrow. I need to go to bed LOL 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member goldfishfanforever Posted July 12, 2015 Author Regular Member Share Posted July 12, 2015 Well I have one crab that keeps hassling the older one and now its in the older crabs shell and the older crab is in another shell but hopefully alive Can crabs keep grudges or do I need to separate?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporter FishyMandy Posted July 12, 2015 Supporter Share Posted July 12, 2015 I know nothing apart hermit crabs, apart from what Ive read here, but yours are so cute! Whe i was 12 we had a hermit crab as a class pet, he didnt live very long though and now that Ive read this I can see why...he had a terrible set up! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member goldfishfanforever Posted July 12, 2015 Author Regular Member Share Posted July 12, 2015 I know nothing apart hermit crabs, apart from what Ive read here, but yours are so cute! Whe i was 12 we had a hermit crab as a class pet, he didnt live very long though and now that Ive read this I can see why...he had a terrible set up! Thanks my mum still thinks the hermit crabs a freaky but I think they are cute well as cute as a crustacean can get and I'm sorry to hear about the class hermit crab it may have died because it suffocated if the humidity was low or had to surface molt if there wasn't enough substrate. I will get pics of the new hermit crab setup in a couple of days 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member katiehuggins Posted July 12, 2015 Regular Member Share Posted July 12, 2015 I don't know if this has been addressed in the large paragraphs I have seen, but if they get curious enough..(like mine..) they will climb up the sides of the tank that are filled with water sealant, mine were SOOO determined..but just watch out, because that has happened to me.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member goldfishfanforever Posted July 12, 2015 Author Regular Member Share Posted July 12, 2015 I don't know if this has been addressed in the large paragraphs I have seen, but if they get curious enough..(like mine..) they will climb up the sides of the tank that are filled with water sealant, mine were SOOO determined..but just watch out, because that has happened to me.. Mine seem more determined to climb on top of each other but there is always a first time 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporter FishyMandy Posted July 13, 2015 Supporter Share Posted July 13, 2015 Yea I think it was a lot of things that killed ours he was in a 5 gallon tank, with a thin layer of sand, a bunch of shells and some chicken wire to climb on. He did have some shallow bowls of water but idk if they were frsh or salt..think there was only one. He didnt have any lights or anything. Really noone in our class knew a thing about them and we only got him because the class next door got rats, we wanted mice..which i had at the time and could have supplied everything for, but our teacher refused to get mice and got the hermit crab instead. Poor lil guy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member goldfishfanforever Posted July 13, 2015 Author Regular Member Share Posted July 13, 2015 Yea I think it was a lot of things that killed ours he was in a 5 gallon tank, with a thin layer of sand, a bunch of shells and some chicken wire to climb on. He did have some shallow bowls of water but idk if they were frsh or salt..think there was only one. He didnt have any lights or anything. Really noone in our class knew a thing about them and we only got him because the class next door got rats, we wanted mice..which i had at the time and could have supplied everything for, but our teacher refused to get mice and got the hermit crab instead. Poor lil guy. Poor little guy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member goldfishfanforever Posted February 17, 2016 Author Regular Member Share Posted February 17, 2016 Okay so I'm going to update with pictures later but I now have a 4th hermit crab and also a new tank that they should be getting moved into in a month or two hopefully 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Flipper Posted February 17, 2016 Regular Member Share Posted February 17, 2016 I directed a friend that I work with... Not a goldfish person to this and other hermit crab threads for info 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member goldfishfanforever Posted February 17, 2016 Author Regular Member Share Posted February 17, 2016 I directed a friend that I work with... Not a goldfish person to this and other hermit crab threads for info cool 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member goldfishfanforever Posted March 6, 2016 Author Regular Member Share Posted March 6, 2016 Okay so forgot to update but here are some pictures of the terrarium So I took these images a few days ago but here's my terrarium My pools The stuff in the bottom of the Pools I have just fitted some things to hang fake plants off from the top of the sides using silicon so I will get pics soon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Speckles Posted March 7, 2016 Regular Member Share Posted March 7, 2016 I love the terrarium! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member goldfishfanforever Posted March 7, 2016 Author Regular Member Share Posted March 7, 2016 I love the terrarium! Thanks I'm hopefully going to start setting it up soon and I am getting a heat lamp for my birthday 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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