I haven had any success in finding quantities of hermit crabs at LFSs, so Im planning to venture into an online purchase through Live Aquaria. Any concerns?
>>This outfit has a very good reputation. >They have a 10-day conditional guarantee where you must quarantine them or they take no responsibility for them. >>This is prudent on everyone’s part. >By “drip acclimation”, do you mean float the transit bag, add 1/2 cup QT water every 10 minutes or so 4X, then add to the tank? (Live Aquaria suggests 4-minute increments and dumping half of the bagged water after the last 1/2 cup addition, adding tank water, netting the livestock (even inverts) and only adding THEM to the QT, not the bag water. They recommend quarantining for two weeks.) >>Two weeks is rather insufficient, in my own opinion. A drip acclimation method is one where you actually set up a “drip line”, made with a length of airline tubing and a valve to control the drip rate. You then set up the animals in a container (in the trade usually a flat, but sufficiently deep, plastic pan or box – think cat litter-type box), then create a gravity-fed drip. There are a couple of ways to do
