Where to find strawberry hermit crabs

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Where to find strawberry hermit crabs

Post by Mallery » Tue Jul 04, 2023 9:38 pm

I am unfortunately too far to adopt ur guy but was wondering if you could give me some info on where to get his breed from?

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Re: SoCal Strawberry Crab Needs Home

Post by KyMart » Tue Jul 04, 2023 9:49 pm

Mallery wrote:
Tue Jul 04, 2023 9:38 pm
I am unfortunately too far to adopt ur guy but was wondering if you could give me some info on where to get his breed from?
Strawberry's can be purchased online in a few places, it will be expensive, it will take a while for them to ship your crabs, and you may get them like 6-12 months after you order, but you might not get them at all and be refunded, it's all kinda sketchy from my understanding. 😂 But sometimes you can find them mixed in with others by mistake at pet stores.
I have 5 PPs in a 40 gallon breeder!
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Re: SoCal Strawberry Crab Needs Home

Post by Pumpkincrab » Wed Jul 05, 2023 9:48 am

KyMart wrote:
Tue Jul 04, 2023 9:49 pm
Strawberry's can be purchased online in a few places, it will be expensive, it will take a while for them to ship your crabs, and you may get them like 6-12 months after you order, but you might not get them at all and be refunded, it's all kinda sketchy from my understanding. 😂 But sometimes you can find them mixed in with others by mistake at pet stores.
I agree with KyMart, even if websites have them for sale it's not recommended to purchase them from there. And sadly enough, Straws are BARELY ever seen in pet stores nowadays. From my understanding they might have once been more common in the USA, in the means of being mixed with PP's, but things have changed and that's extremely uncommon. Now, in pet stores you can expect to see PP's, the occasional Ecuadorian (seemingly in Petco, depends on localtion- never seen any near me) and the highly unlikely ruggie.
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Re: SoCal Strawberry Crab Needs Home

Post by KyMart » Wed Jul 05, 2023 1:01 pm

Pumpkincrab wrote:
Wed Jul 05, 2023 9:48 am
I agree with KyMart, even if websites have them for sale it's not recommended to purchase them from there. And sadly enough, Straws are BARELY ever seen in pet stores nowadays. From my understanding they might have once been more common in the USA, in the means of being mixed with PP's, but things have changed and that's extremely uncommon. Now, in pet stores you can expect to see PP's, the occasional Ecuadorian (seemingly in Petco, depends on localtion- never seen any near me) and the highly unlikely ruggie.
Yeah, rare finds, sadly..
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