My Captive Bred Hermit Crabs

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I have to apologize for neglecting to share my adorable captive bred baby hermit crabs: Wall-E and Eve! I’ve been busy working in the hermit crab community, promoting Land Hermit Crab Owners Society, The Crab Street Journal and Crab Con and neglecting my own little crabby blog. So here’s a photo dump of my babies!

Wall-E and Eve hatched in October 2018, Lockport NY at the home of Mary Akers, founder of Hermit House, Crab Con and VP of LHCOS. I adopted them in July 2019 at the first ever Crab Con.

2019 and most of 2020 they lived in a small nursery tank but really did not grow any larger. In 2020 I decided to move them into my 75 gallon tank to live with my Coenobita rugosus. While I rarely see them now, when I do catch them I can see they are growing and really are no longer ‘babies’. <3

To learn more about Mary Akers and captive breeding hermit crabs, visit her website.

2019
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2019 Nursery
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2019 getting some color
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2020 Sitting in a BOTTLE CAP #SoSmol
2020
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2020 First Shell Change!
2020 We like to dress alike- pretty sure I labelled this one wrong lol
2020 Wall E
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2020 Peep that carpal setal pattern! That’s how I know which one is Wall-E and which is Eve. Wall-E has a backwards L pattern.
2020 We left the nursery and moved into the 75 gallon with the C. rugogus
2021 a rare baby sighting!
Eve 2022 The babies are not really babies anymore 🙁
Throwback to just how small those first shells were, smaller than a time and the babies didn’t fully fill these shells.