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Who has successfully bred crabs?
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 12:20 pm
by C: ClareCrabOwner :)
I'm just curious:
Has anyone on here successfully bred crabs? What species?
And what happens to the babies after they hatch? Do you keep them all?
Re: Who has successfully bred crabs?
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:05 pm
by JoeHermits
For breeding stories I would go through the Breeding subforum, there aren’t a lot but there is a lot of good info there. I believe CleverCrabCallsign’s thread is the most recent addition
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Re: Who has successfully bred crabs?
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:13 pm
by C: ClareCrabOwner :)
Thank you! I'll do that.
Re: Who has successfully bred crabs?
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 4:43 pm
by C: ClareCrabOwner :)
I've looked at some of these posts!
I really admire all the hard work people do to raise crabs! I hope I could do this one day!
Re: Who has successfully bred crabs?
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:39 pm
by HermitGuy3
I think there is a group somewhere called "hermit house" for breeders if you want to try it. They give advice and stuff there. It is expensive an labor intensive though.
Re: Who has successfully bred crabs?
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 7:07 pm
by C: ClareCrabOwner :)
I don't have a whole lot of time right now...
Maybe I'll breed crabs when I retire
Re: Who has successfully bred crabs?
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 6:04 pm
by CleverCrabCallsign
In the home stretch of breeding right now for the first time. It is definitely a lot of work but I'm finding it to be a satisfying effort. Hermit House is great! I've joined their ranks recently and the info and assistance there has been invaluable. Check them out for sure if you have any interest in breeding and consider supporting them if you can.
Re: Who has successfully bred crabs?
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 8:16 pm
by HermitGuy3
I hope I can try to breed someday too!
Re: Who has successfully bred crabs?
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:54 am
by C: ClareCrabOwner :)
Could I have a link to the hermit house page? I can't find it. Thanks!
Re: Who has successfully bred crabs?
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 3:02 pm
by HermitGuy3
I have never actually gone to their page, I have only heard that they are a good resource from breeding, so hopefully CleverCrabCallsign responds!
Re: Who has successfully bred crabs?
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:28 pm
by BradMoe
Greetings!
I went to get help and where I am in the care of hermit crabs it was pure random to have eggs and have hatched. I had a couple of strawberry hermit crabs, given to me, which led me to learn of keeping a salt-water aquarium. There were eggs produced which I found a flat-worm ate all of them. *I had the hermit crabs having access to the salt-water aquarium, to which the eggs were expelled and could climb in and out of it as well. So, those were all lessons. :roll:
This new one is a sea-dwelling hermit crab.
It was completely random as I mentioned and here are two pictures, one of the "hatchlings." Every substrate and rock were completely cleaned and there are no more predators. The "brood" will eat algae for a while - which makes difficult to clean around them - except for having the help from a few snails. At 2-4 weeks the "brood" move about very quickly but not very far at a time.
I am not an expert! I just keep a "healthy" salt-water source - its not a very big aquarium - and I'm learning and now sharing.
Cheers!
-Moe
Re: Who has successfully bred hermit crabs?
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:33 pm
by C: ClareCrabOwner :)
So you have baby hermit crabs! Amazing
Re: Who has successfully bred crabs?
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 1:46 pm
by GotButterflies
BradMoe wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:28 pm
Greetings!
I went to get help and where I am in the care of hermit crabs it was pure random to have eggs and have hatched. I had a couple of strawberry hermit crabs, given to me, which led me to learn of keeping a salt-water aquarium. There were eggs produced which I found a flat-worm ate all of them. *I had the hermit crabs having access to the salt-water aquarium, to which the eggs were expelled and could climb in and out of it as well. So, those were all lessons. :roll:
This new one is a sea-dwelling hermit crab.
It was completely random as I mentioned and here are two pictures, one of the "hatchlings." Every substrate and rock were completely cleaned and there are no more predators. The "brood" will eat algae for a while - which makes difficult to clean around them - except for having the help from a few snails. At 2-4 weeks the "brood" move about very quickly but not very far at a time.
I am not an expert! I just keep a "healthy" salt-water source - its not a very big aquarium - and I'm learning and now sharing.
Cheers!
-Moe
I'm sorry to inform you that those are not zoeae from a hermit crab. I have no idea what they are, but they definitely are not marine hermit crab zoeae or land hermit crab zoeae. I have successfully raised land hermit crab zoeae twice (PP & Ruggies).
