HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I hope one day I can achieve this kind of tank and babies! It will be one of my new life goals haha.

O.M.G. Those babies are TOTALLY ADORABLE!!!!!! Thank you so much for posting all of these pictures!!


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http://rs877.pbsrc.com/albums/ab333/bri ... 1401998195 this is Dwebble my new hermit crab hes a small purple pincher i got him last week on my brithday may 27th

Absolutely fascinating Curlz! And your setup! Gee whiz! It's wonderful!!!

I'm such a newb at this that I'll be excited if all four of my crabs survive their first molt with me...and your pics are inspiring for me to learn more and more so maybe in a few years I'll have enough knowledge to maybe make them happy enough to breed too. Please keep sharing pics!

thank you very much

Yes keep on learning and breeding. You are in Australia, than the breeding project of Natalie (Nat Addicted To HCs) may help you, too. She successfully bred C. variabilis (Aussies(



I keep on updating my photobook sometimes. Just have a look time to time..

Pictures of my crabs and terraria:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1120608556 ... directlink

Pictures of the first breedings (C. vioalscens):
https://picasaweb.google.com/1120608556 ... directlink

Pictures of the second breedinggs (C. violascens):
https://picasaweb.google.com/1120608556 ... directlink


some thread before you can find the link to the breeding experiments (larvae and Kreisel tank etc.)

all documents / photobooks / pictures © Curlz

Oh man I think I'm in love! How amazing are those little darlings!!! How do you find little enough shells for them? So they will all survive from this point right? Congrats!!


New mom to 2 PP's- Paul & Juan and 2 E's- Harry and Sarge. Also 1 Yorkie-Joey and 1 cat-Milo and 2 teenage daughters.... Sanity anyone?

Your photos are so amazing!

Do you have plans to continue trying to breed the crabs?

@courtbri: here in Germay I have found a very good shell shop and they have had such tiny shells!! God bless them! Without them I could not do it.
Some are out of "marine coral sand" packages. Some are from beaches round the world. Some are gifts for my project

@ sofiaee: yes of course!
When I get eggs of any of my hermits, we will do it again and try and try and try!

But at the moment no eggs are "work in progress". I have lost a violascens male. He was the father of most of my violas eggs....
And my other species do not mate, as it seems.
Some are too young, some are without fitting male or female. Some are digged for molting etc.

We are about to built up bigger tanks (like the old ones - connected and with water pool) and then I will try to get some more hermits. To have males/females that fits to the other...to have eggs again

new double terraria pictures at my blog: http://curlz-crabs.blogspot.de/

Sorry but at the moment only in german. Have to translate all text... could take some month..

Simply amazing Curlz! I hope to build something even remotely like yours someday.

I bought a used 125 last week. It still had gravel and whatnot in it from the fish it held previously. In the gravel there was a lot of teeny shells. I think they are marine hermit crab shells. Could you use them? There are a lot of them.

Curlz - deine Bilder sind wunderschön !!

@ KellyCrabbieLove: At the moment I have a few tiny tiny tiny shells.

There are some LHC fans in the USA and Canaca who may also try to breed. I think it would be better to collect them, clean them and wait for breedings attemps in USA or Canada.
But I keep it in mind, if I am runnung out of shells and when I do not get some here.


@ Ladysun1969: Thank you very much! Danke schön!

Bitte schön

How big are the babies now? They are adorable! And I love your white blueberry crab.
Also, I need to try a tunnel between tanks. That is amazing.