How Old Are Your Crabs?

[Crabinski]

Seeing the posts about Floridian Carol Ormes and her 37 year old PP Jonathan Livingston Crab has me wondering: how old are members' crabs?

I know that we can use size as a rough indicator of age but that doesn't necessarily correlate with how long we've had them. For instance, I've had PP Felix for over 6 years and he's still a "small to small-medium". Harry has been with me for 3+ years and is a solid "medium," definitely larger than Felix. Big Enzo has been here for only a few months and absolutely dwarfs the others. Granted, we really have no idea how old they are when we adopt them or buy them from a pet store so Harry could be older than Felix and Big Enzo a lot older than both of them :dunno: .

I'm curious to know how long you all have had your crabbies. Is anyone getting anywhere near 20 years or so?

[wodesorel]

My first crab is still with me, so Goji celebrated our Fifth anniversary on Sept. 6th. I have a few adoptees who have been in captivity for 8, 9 & 10 years.

The HCA gets several adoption requests every year of crabs who have been with their owners for 10 years or more. I think the longest has been 18 years. We had someone join once with a crab they had for 23.

[Drakezilla]

I've had mine since my last year of junior high on -- making it about twelve years?
I'd guesstimate he's maybe fourteen at the absolute most.

[Brittanybaby22]

I had dwebble for five months going on six months he's a small purple pincher I got him on my birthday on may 27th

[KellyCrabbieLove]

I started crabbing June 20th. 1 of my original 2 is still with me. My first 2 were E's which makes it impressive Houdini lived through my trial and error since he is an exotic. So a little over 4 months. The first 2 of my purple pinchers were purchased 2 days after I started and they are still with me. the other 24...lol are staggered and several are large and 2 maybe even jumbo. I really need to print that chart!

[CallaLily]

Cinnamon has been with me the longest, 6 years on Aug. 11. Elanor, Athelas, and Niphredil have also been with me for 6 years. I have an adoptee that I picked up in May that the previous owner says she had for 13 years. My original crab, Favre, passed away sometime the beginning of this year, so a few months shy of his 6 year anniversary.

I started crabbing a few days before I joined the HCA.