Who has/had hermit crabs?

Question

I used to have some, but unfortunately, most would die shortly after I acquired them. There was one, however, whom I named Lola, that I had for nearly 10 years! She got bigger and bigger, until I was struggling to find seashells that were big enough for her. I used to let her out of her aquarium to wander around the living room. She'd spend hours scuttling around under the furniture. I tried giving her companions, but she was so much bigger than they were that she bullied them and killed them unless I kept them separated. Poor Theodore lost two limbs, which Lola ate! She loved bananas and lettuce. I am not sure why she died several years ago, but one day I found her listless and pale. Within hours, she was dead. :o( I miss that goofy hermit crab.

So, tell me your hermit crab stories. :o)

Answer 1

Hi!

We currently own 43 hermit crabs... with 23 successful molts this year alone 100% of which were successful.

We also own and run a hermit crab rescue and educational facility. We have owned and worked with hermit crabs for over 10 years now and have studied and researched them for 15 years. Our oldest crab is 15 years old this year.

We have had no troubles with aggressions because I developed an agression prevention diet which is 100% successful. Have also developed other specialty foods which we are going to try to market very soon.

We are a fully equipped rehab for injured sick and dying crabs.... and are always researching the crabs and products used with the crabs.

We offer only human grade organic all natural fuits veggies meats and fish... no commercial foods at all.

There are two main tanks right now a 56 gallon and a 30 gallon as well as 3, 10 gallons, a 15 gallon and a 20 gallon that are eith ISOs for new rescues or just ready to go for the coming weeks of an expectd 15 newbies on their way.

We are not for profit and offer free educational and training services.. we are a forever home for hermit crabs and right now are not adopting out or placing out hermitcrabs.

Since we take a very naturalistic approach to caring for hermit crabs, we do not take them out very much at all, since they are not that kind of pet... we allow them to stay in their ideal sustained tanks which are mini ecosystems of pure tropical bliss, taking them out would cause stress.

They do come out once a month for deep clean day.. but are always happy to be back in their tanks.

Answer 2

For some reason, the hermits crabs that I had always appeared on the front door, literally lol Since we live relatively near the beach they would pretty much just appear. We had one in particular, Crabby (wow...how creative XD) that he stayed with us for a pretty long time, eating fruits and hermy food but he loved treats best of all which I think were made of coconuts. I realized inmediately that he was too big for his shell so we started to look around for some but to no such luck. In the end we bought his seashells through the internet and it was kinda funny to see him switching blue to pink to silver colored shells as days passed. One day though we had an incident where we really thought he died since he wasn't moving or anything and I practically died as the whole skin just came out. While I was cleaning the cage I took out the shell and to my surprise he was still hiding out in his shell. I did a couple of happy jigs and such of course and we went on normal until he finally did die...but he was really good ^^

Answer 3

make optimistic you save more advantageous shells in there for them, because they are going to molt and in the experience that they do no longer have any shells they are going to easily be crawling round in the nude!! which will also lead them to die. :( adverse crabs. besides the very undeniable actuality that as the different answer exhibits, they do like pop muffins, be careful because some hermit crabs have a genetic predisposition to crustacean diabetes. for sure hermit crabs don't like dynamite exploding round their habitats. besides the undeniable fact that, in case you stumble on some previous dynamite tubes and intently, (and that i recommend tremendous, tremendous intently) scoop out the nitroglycerin with a butterknife or something, you should use the casings for terrain aspects that your crabs can disguise in as they favor to sense look after. sorry, i do not understand something about tank length

Answer 4

i had a hermit crab named hermine or his nickname hermy. it had a wonderful purple shell and a buddy named sleepy. (my brothers hermit crab)hermine started to smell and we thought for sure it was dead but in the book we had it said that wen it seemed dead it was really just shedding its old skin. we waited a very long time and i was finally sure he was dead becuz wen i picked him up all of his legs fell off. it was acctually kinda sad. then a little while later my brothers crab died and it was really hard becuz he was only like 7 and he was extrely upset. i dont think i will get hermit crabs any more.