Vase i'm so sorry to hear that, its always a danger, you really should pop any new hermits into an isolation tank first let them get over pet shop stress, also the stress can make them go into a forced early molt.

You need to have quite a lot of extra shells in your tank, plus when they've been in a pet shop they may of been stuck with no other shells to change into other then to kill for them, takes them a while to realize they don't need to do that anymore.

I'll seperate anymore that I buy. The quarantine thing foolishly never occured to me
There's about 10 shells in there of all different shapes and sizes. Cant work out who the victim was as two shells that were used yesterday are now vacant.

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No it didn't with me first time we added some new ones, we were lucky but it was only a week since we'd added the first lots, but our new 8 we have, will stay in their own tank, i'm not risking them in with the 18 i've had for a year.
Its so new keeping them in the UK, thats why we set up the website and support forum, just to try and give folk in the UK somewhere to find or get information, as most sites are based in the US.

Vase, have you been and bought anymore hermits?

My land hermit forum has made a deal with livefoodsbypost, for all posting members a 10% discount on all Land Hermit Crabs ordered from them.
So if you want or need any hermits thats the place to be.
Absolutely Crabulous

hi guys, i have 4 georgeous hermies.
had them about a year now and all are sucessful moulters. Got them from pets at home for £2.50 each (what a bargain!)
I offer 2 water dishes, 1 distilled water & 1 salt water. They all eat like pigs aswell!! lol

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To let you all know, the OH uses this aswell, so its not always me!

1.1.2 Red Eyed Tree Frogs / 1.0.0 Giant Day Gecko - Gizmo / 0.1.0 Leopard Gecko - Trevor McDonald / 0.1.0 Blue Tongue Skink - Slinky / 1.0.0 Ambanja x Nosy Be Chameleon - SpongeBob
1.1.0 Kids - Chloe & Daniel ***FOR SALE***
Wanted: 3ft viv and 3ft exo terra
Swap: 18"x18"x18" for 18"x18"x24" exo terra
For Sale: LG Secret mobile phone (brand new), Various baby clothes, madagascan giant day gecko + set up, various mini bits (see thread in off topic classifieds)

Awww nice one sarah, i'd love to see photos of them?

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Hey, no I havent. And for some reason I now only have one

So, I'm gonna join up to your forum, learn all I can and then try again in the near future

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Hey great we look forward to seeing you, we'll do what we can to help.

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Joined

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