Hermit House
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 4:00 pm
Last month we filed the paperwork to apply for 501-c non-profit status for HERMIT HOUSE. Our mission statement is "Keep Wild Hermit Crabs in the Wild." As a non-profit, we will be able to help even more folks appreciate and understand captive-breeding and supply would-be breeders with the tools and information to be successful at it. Here are some of the things we've accomplished:
This year, Tetra donated a bunch of supplies (Instant Ocean, air pumps, and foods for megalopa), which we were able to pass along to breeders--HCA's own GotButterflies among them.
We have an established wholesale account with Josh's Frogs, the leading retailer of captive-bred amphibians, reptiles, and now land hermit crabs in the US. We also wholesale to ILL Exotics in the Philadelphia area--the ONLY in-person store currently carrying captive-bred hermit crabs.
We have figured out methods for successfully shipping donated zoeae to breeders across the country, which is a huge milestone, allowing us to raise species that we don't keep ourselves.
And to date, HERMIT HOUSE breeders have successfully raised:
C. clypeatus
C. compressus
C. lila
C. variabilis
and
C. perlatus
Not all of them in adoptable numbers, but this mission is so big and so complicated, any forward progress feels like a big win for wild hermit crabs.
This year, Tetra donated a bunch of supplies (Instant Ocean, air pumps, and foods for megalopa), which we were able to pass along to breeders--HCA's own GotButterflies among them.
We have an established wholesale account with Josh's Frogs, the leading retailer of captive-bred amphibians, reptiles, and now land hermit crabs in the US. We also wholesale to ILL Exotics in the Philadelphia area--the ONLY in-person store currently carrying captive-bred hermit crabs.
We have figured out methods for successfully shipping donated zoeae to breeders across the country, which is a huge milestone, allowing us to raise species that we don't keep ourselves.
And to date, HERMIT HOUSE breeders have successfully raised:
C. clypeatus
C. compressus
C. lila
C. variabilis
and
C. perlatus
Not all of them in adoptable numbers, but this mission is so big and so complicated, any forward progress feels like a big win for wild hermit crabs.
Jeez Louise, you are the FIRST Hermit House breeder! Sorry for being so American-focused. Gah. Thank you for catching that and not shooting me. I'm a dolt.