does Anyone know about breeding purple pincher hermit crabs?

Question

I have hermit crabs and i wanted to know if it was possible to have a hermit crab get pregnant in captivity. Becuz some websites say they can and other websites say they can't. i also don't know how to take care of a pregnant hermit crab.

Answer 1

Sexing:
Both the male and female hermit crabs look alike in outward appearances. The difference lays beneath the crab far within it’s shell. On the last pair of legs, on the underside of the crab, a female has what are called gonophores. Gonophores are the sexual openings where the male releases its sperm into the female, and then later the eggs are released from. The gonophores are located on the underside of the 3rd pair of legs. The only way of seeing the gonophores is if your crab will come out far enough on his/her own. Do not pull your crab out of its shell. The crab would rather lose its legs that to be forced out of its safe haven.
Breeding:

Although many believe that breeding hermit crabs can’t be done, we have heard otherwise. I will add however, that it is very hard to breed hermit crabs. Crabs will mate in captivity, but beyond that there is much work for the caretaker or owner to do in order for all to pull through.

In the wild hermit crabs will mate, and as the eggs are released, the female will hold the eggs in her shell around her abdomen with her two tiny feet within. When the time is right, the female will then release her eggs into the ocean for her eggs to hatch and survive on their own. Many land hermit crabs only return to the ocean to release the eggs and stay further from the shore, but this is where the adventure begins for her offspring.

The eggs will drift off in the current and those that make it past predators will hatch and little zoea will be born. The zoea will remain as parts of plankton until it has gone through several molts and transforms through metamorphosis, into a juvenile hermit crab. As young land hermit crabs that are fully formed they will leave the ocean to find something for covering their tiny abdomens. At this time their gills will be ready to take on the oxygen and they will be more than ready to go exploring with curiosity at full force. Many may not make it to finding a shell for protection, but for those who do, they are on their way on a great exploration.

Answer 2

Purple Pincher Hermit Crab Care

Answer 3

Land hermit crabs generally don't breed in captivity. The landscape has to be just right for them to breed, warm, rocks at the edge of the ocean, because the adult will toss her eggs into the water. The larvae would eat planktonic microscopic organisms, again, best found in the ocean.

Answer 4

Land HErmit crabs do not get pregnant they get gravid with eggs within their shell on the side of her abdomen. They do not reproduce in cptivity but are harvested off of their beach home in the wild already gravid.

It is impossible to replicat everything that is nessecary for the eggs to hatch and survive. Not even any highly educated scientists with the top of the line equipment have been able to do this and the at home owner shure can not. They will not live.

No one has been successful to date and it is impossible to replicate the entire ecosystem nessecary for the zoea to live.. the proper..
tide flow, water make-up, salinity, chemical balance that is exactly like their natural habibtat, the temperatures, the live plankton and pseudo-plankton of which they eat as well as other microscopic things. The exact troical environment and land beach makeup witht he proper sands.
The ebb and flow of the waters and the exact places in the water in which they live.. it is impossible.

You should have already researched on how to properly care for land hermit crabs and if you did the tank would already be like home to them.

Source(s):

We own a Land Hermit Crab Rescue, adopting unwanted, abused, neglected sick and injured land hermits for re-habilitation and placing with our on site colonies or placing into their forever homes elsewhere. We have placed countless numbers already. We currently have 48 on site in our established colonies.

We also offer free educational services for both current and future land hermit crab owners. We also offer the same services to pet stores and other retail outlets, including providing proper care sheets etc.
We offer advocacy services also, helping spread awarness and to intervene when abuse or neglect is present, offering aid to correct the problems or ask for surrender of the animals to us so we may rehabilitate them to perfect health. We also are planning on doing educational and advocacy visits to schools in our area in the fall. Later branching out to other areas.)
We have researched and studied everything about land hermit crabs for over 15 years and have owned and worked with them through that time as well. Our eldest crab has been with us for those 15 years.