I've recently upgraded their tank and redone the heating, and they seem to love it. Before the heating was a bright light and an aquarium heater in a bottle of water inside the tank, the new tank has a proper infrared heat globe, which looks awesome, its on a thermostat, so it keeps the temp steady at about 24 degrees, it switches on mainly at night, so I get to see my crabs 24 hours a day LOL.

The tat it's 36"x 18"x 14


Icarus, he's my largest hermit and he was the first crab I bought


Daedalus, is a cheeky teeny crab LOL, he's been testing out a new shell so I keep finding him in either his old shell or the new one, personally I like the new one better
His normal shell


The new shell


Neptune recently came up from a molt, with a completely different colour, he used to look like Hercules twin,


Hercules has molted as well but kept his colour


Hermes is my most recent addition, he just changed shells, and I must say I like his choice LOL
His old shell is next to him



Ah well, just wanted to share

Looks great! I gave my sis two hermit crabs last year and they are awesome. The heater in the bottle is a pretty cool idea, I've never heard of that, does it work well? We have a reptile heating pad on the bottom of our tank.

Chrissy

It wasn't that cold to start off with (I live in Aus) so it worked okay, though often I couldn't keep the temperature stable, it did give them somewhere to sit near when they got cold though.

Your hermit crab setup looks fantastic!!!!!! How many crabs to you have in the tank?

LOl just the 5, 3 teenys and 2 micros.

Is there a qouta on how many crabs you can have for the amount of space, like the 10 gallon per fish rule?

Just wondering becuase I bought a little hermit crab habitat tank for a friend's son for xmas. Just wondering how many crabs would be suitable. I will have to dig it out of the cupboard and note the tank's measurements.

Here ya go
http://www.hermitcrabassociation.com/pages/sizing.htm

You need to get humidity, temperature etc right first, as well as substrate and make sure every crab has room to molt, to hide without being crammed with other crabs and to bath, in salt and fresh water.

I could have a lot more crabs in my tat but am happy with just the 5 I have.

Your set up is great. The look healthy and happy. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the link avalon! I printed it out. I'm going to dig up the tank today which is somewhere in my cupboard. I bought it just after x-mas last year as it was on special at a stocktake sale. I try and buy x-mas presents throughout the year at sales to save money and then I dont have to stress with last minute shopping. I will google sites for hermit crab care and put together a little book for my friend's son. He's about 10 years old.

Hey Avalon,
Just a question, do hermit crabs have personalities? I always look at them when I go to the lfs and when we vacation in Florida. My son has asked for one a few times, but I guess I never really thought of them as "pets". Your's seem great!

LOL you bet, some are too shy for their own good but others are real characters. Take Daedalus for example, he switches his shells daily, he's always doing stupid things and getting into trouble, then sitting innocently in the food bowl as if he didn't do a thing. Their collectors as well, and they hoard their food, and things they like, Icarus in particular is a magpie, his current hoard which is in a large shell consists of two teeny shells, a lot of cocnut, two pieces of husk, a suction cup and a shell his own size packed with peanut butter, honey and cocnut shreds.

I'd say there personality level would be about the same as your average goldie. Or more in some cases.

LOL! Sounds like they are fun to have as pets! If I ever get one, or two, for him one day, I will ask you how to plan their tank and all!

cool, thanks for sharing!! Your crabitat is very nice!! I have 6 hermies myself Isn't it neat how some of them have such different personalities than others! I have one that goes on a "rampage" and just tears everything up....haha....well, maybe not tears things up....but he definately likes to "re-arrange" everything that he gets his little claws on!

wow they look awesome! make me want to have one also! lol

wow that is a nice hermit set up