HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Came across this paper and wanted to share! The authors wanted to check temperature effects on growth rates of hermit eggs, so they set them up for artificial incubation - in other words, removed from mom. They got several species straight through to hatching! It's a treasure trove of info for anyone trying to breed.

Thermal adaptations of embryos of six terrestrial hermit crab species
Katsuyuki Hamasaki1,*, Takahiro Matsuda1, Ken Takano1, Mio Sugizaki1, Yu Murakami1, Shigeki Dan2, Shuichi Kitada

This link should do an automatic PDF download for anyone interested.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... kPB4uHMZnz

Thats honestly sweet! Amazing read!

edit: also want to include a reference in case for whatever reason, the link becomes defunct.... :/

Hamasaki, Katsuyuki, Takahiro Matsuda, Ken Takano, Mio Sugizaki, Yu Murakami, Shigeki Dan, and Shuichi Kitada. "Thermal adaptations of embryos of six terrestrial hermit crab species." Aquatic Biology 25 (2016): 83-96.

DOI: 10.3354/ab00663



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This is cool, although I’m not sure if artificial incubation is practical for the home breeder. But, hey, you never know.

I wonder if we could try it with smeared eggs.


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This is excellent. Thank you!