Water Ponds

The Importance of Water Land hermit crabs require both fresh and saline water ponds or pools to drink from. It is recommended that you add a water conditioner such as Seachem Prime which will remove chlorine, chloramines and heavy metals as well as ammonia from their fresh water. You will also need to make up…

Australian Land Hermit Crabs

Coenobita variabilis “Land Hermit Crabs of the family Coenibitidae are in general a tropical group poorly represented in the Australian Area. Some small, brown Coenibita species occur in northern Australia and the bright red Coenibita perlatus is abundant on cays in the Coral Sea between Queensland and New Caledonia. Though found widely throughout the tropical…

Breeding

Land Hermit Crab Breeding Land Hermit Crabs CAN breed in captivity but raising them from egg to air-breathing land hermit crabs is a difficult process It was always thought that hermit crabs would not breed in captivity. Now, some land hermit crab owners have successfully bred with suitable conditions. Hermit crabs that are given enough…

News

E-BULLETIN WEB WORLD : Hawkers Bizarre Source: The Bulletin with NewsWeek; June 26, 2001 Hermies ‘n’ Herps   In the market for a pet that’s hardy, cute and easy to care for? A hermit crab might sound great, but drop by this site before believing the pet store salesman’s guff, or you’ll have a dead…

Hermit Crab Researchers

A Abrahams, Peter – University of Toronto. RESEARCH TITLE: Community Ecology, Evolutionary Ecology and Theory Abrams, Peter , J. P. 1993 Desportes Review of Assessments and Decisions: A Study of Information Gathering by Hermit Crabs, by R. W. Animal Behaviour Vol. 46, No. 3, September 1993 http://www.idealibrary.com/links/doi/10.1006/anbe.1993.1235 B Barnes, D. K. Barnes DK. Resource availability: Ancient…

Hermit Crab Biology

Land Hermit Crabs have adapted to live on land and can drown if submerged in water. The abdomen of a hermit crab is very soft and vulnerable; unlike ‘true’ crabs, hermit crabs do not have a hard shell to protect themselves. To survive, they must tuck their abdomens within the abandoned shell of a marine…