I watched “Under The Boardwalk”
Don’t promote this movie. Don’t show anyone this movie. It’s a good movie but it WILL lead to the death of millions of hermit crabs. They show land hermit crabs living on the Jersey Shore. They don’t live there. They aren’t native there. You can’t release them there (it’s literally illegal) if you see a purple pincher crawling around in a painted shell, pick that bitch up and get a travel tank and call the LHCOS. They will take it for free and care for it PROPERLY. Unless you’re willing to spend upwards of $500 and 30+ years of care, do not get a hermit crab. Otherwise you WILL kill it. You WILL be an animal abuser and possible animal murderer. They are NOT disposable.
Let me say it again
THEY ARE NOT DISPOABLE
They are not throw away pets. They are not cheap pets. They have the same care requirements as some harder to care for reptiles, with the added difficulty of learning how to properly set up and manage their substrate! They need 75-80° F. They need 80% humidity. They need 6-10 inches of 1:5 eco earth to playsand substrate at sand castle consistency so they can molt. They need both salt and fresh water pools they can fully submerge in! They need leaf litter, greensand, wormcastings, and supplemental calcium.
They need 50% protein, 30% veg/fruit (fresh is best but dried is fine. Citrus COULD be deadly to them, but it’s widely argued. I’d say better safe than sorry) and 20% carbs (rice/oats/corn/popcorn) not to mention oil! (I use olive, some people use coconut and some use sesame. They cannot have canola)
They cannot have iodine or iodized salt. They need marine salt for their water.
They can’t have exposed metal as rust is toxic to them. They can’t have painted shells, painted shells and paint in general is toxic for them. ANY paint. Period. It does not matter what the person in the shop told you. They are lying. They purposely give you information that will kill your crabs so you have to buy more. Don’t feed your crabs the crab food they give you, it’s literal poison. They need 10 gallons per crab in a sealed aquarium. You should get a minimum of 2 crabs. They need 3-5 shells (Turbo, petholatus, jade turbo, snakeskin turbo, lace turbo, Mexican turbo. Any turbo) per crab in the same size and in other sizes. They need a lot of care and work. They are not the easy and cheap pets they are sold as.
My tank now is much more foliage covered than this!!! That picture was taken as I was setting it up to show proper depth of sand!
You can see how much foliage I’ve added to the tank!
Also Hephaestus on the wheel lol













