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Handling your Hermit Crab
Originally written by Vanessa Pike-Russell Whether your hermit crabs like to be handled a lot will depend on the nature of the crab’s personality, previous experience with handling and whether it...
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Bathing your Land hermit Crab
Originally written by Vanessa Pike-Russell It is important that your land hermit crabs are able to bathe themselves. Bathing allows your hermit crab to re-hydrate, flush out the feces and wash off the...
View ArticleHermit Crab Essentials Shopping Checklist
Originally written by Vanessa Pike-Russell Hermit crabs are advertised as cheap and easy to maintain, which is not necessarily true. To keep your hermit crabs happy and healthy, you will need to...
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Identifying and Addressing Aggression in Hermit Crabs
Originally written by Vanessa Pike-Russell Behaviour in the Wild Hermit crabs in the wild Land hermit crabs are territorial animals, and as such they will often act aggressively towards one another to...
View ArticleChecklist for Regular Care and Maintenance of Your Hermit Crabs and the Crabitat
Originally written by Vanessa Pike-Russell After your crabitat is set up you will have to maintain it and your crabs. Below you will find a list of what tasks should be done daily, weekly and monthly....
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Handicapped/limbless/sick Hermit Crab Care
Written by Marie Davis (aka ladybug15057) Hermit crab dropped leg During a crabbers crabbing experience one may find themselves faced with a situation of needing to care for a severely handicapped or...
View ArticleComparative Example for PPS Practices
written by Sue Latel March 8, 2006 Little Billy has had 3 hermit crabs since his 12 birthday. He has a 20 gallon tank housing his 3 small PP crabs. One day when he is at the store picking up some ocean...
View ArticleRefining the Purpose of Isolation
writting by Sue Latell March 8, 2006 The Definition of Isolation Isolation by very general definition, in the crabbing world means to keep crabs separated from each other in groups or by individuals by...
View ArticlePPS (Post Purchase Stress) Minimizing the Impact
written by Sue Latell March 8, 2006 I have belonged to the on-line crabbing community for a little over 3 years now. From day one there was discussion about the number of deaths immediately occurring...
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Surface Molts
Hermit crabs typically go about their molting business below ground away from your prying eyes and nosey tank mates but this isn’t always the case. Sometimes you will find yourself with a surface...
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Setting up a proper crabitat
How to set up a proper crabitat Let’s look at how to set up a proper hermit crab habitat, which we refer to as a crabitat. Basing your tank set up on what you saw at the petstore or mall cart where you...
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Emergency Help Links
Emergency Hermit Crab Self Help We are sorry that you are experiencing a crab care emergency. Below are some links and information to our most commonly experienced emergency situations. Be aware that...
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Caring for hermit crabs with limb loss or other deformities
Missing both pinchers makes it difficult to eat and protect yourself. This guide will help you care for a hermit crab that has been attacked, lost several limbs or is suffering from molt complications....
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Hermit Crab Essentials Shopping Checklist
Originally written by Vanessa Pike-Russell Download this shopping list at the bottom of the article Hermit crabs are advertised as cheap and easy to maintain, which is not necessarily true. To keep...
View ArticleA Guide to Land Hermit Crab Pools
Welcome to Hermit Crab Pool Boy Training 101! We hope the following information will cover hermit crab water pools from a-z. If we didn’t cover something here please feel free to comment or contact...
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