43Gallons
Aquarium Advice Regular
I'm not really sure if hermit crabs even have a place on this site to be discussed, but I hope it's here. I have 2 Carribean Hermit Crabs, or Coenobita clypeatus, which my young brother got at the beach and brought home for me to care for. I would like to give these guys a nice home. Currently, they are in a ten gallon tank I had laying around with 2 inches of PFS, a shack, a couple decorations to climb on, a bowl of freshwater, a bowl of saltwater, some "Hermit Crab Food" in a shell, and some other shells I put in to supply calcium (they do according to the crab saleslady). I would like to ditch the tacky decorations and make it look a bit like a beach/desert terrarium. I want to put a live cactus in and maybe some wooden semicircle tunnels with some rocks for good measure. I don't know much about hermit crab keeping, however, so I want to know how and if I can do this. I also have a hygrometer and am keeping humidity at about 72% consistently. As far as lighting, I'm using just a fluorescent currently, but plan to switch to a metal halide or something similar for both heat and lighting for the cactus (assuming I can get away with that). If any hermit crab experts happen to be on, I'd appreciate the advice!