HCA: Hermit Crab Association

OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!

Poseidon and Luna are mating as we speak! Right now! I just took some pics, which I will post later. I took them out to redo the fidd tat, I went downstairs, came up a moment later, and... well the title explains it all! Gotta run!

Ryan

Ok, they just stopped now. That was like 15 minutes! Those pics will come soon. I also caught some video!

haha! I thought you were hoping they would wait so you could get another tank ready to try to raise the young. Will be interesting to see the photos.

I know! :roll: I guess they had other ideas. What should I do? I don't want to kill the zoea like before, but I don't have a tank set up. I don't even have the things I need. Oh, and notice the sig-

Congrats! I don't know too much about fillder crabs, its it more common too see them mating then say, our land hermit crabs?

Well, Mac, I've had Fidds for half a year now, and this is the second time they've mated. But I've had Hermits for about a year and a month, and they have never mated (don't know if they even would ). I think that it's very rare and hard for hermits to breed in captivity. And even harder to rear them, in a tank. Fidds are also extremely difficult to breed, not to get them to mate it seems, but to rear the young. As neither crab is born as a crab, but rather as zoea, it is even harder to rear them, unfortunately.

I was hoping to get them to mate at the begginning of summer, so I have less work to do. But as I said before, my fidds had their own opinions. I'll posts those pics in just a sec... *opens photobucket account*

Ok, here is a pic and a video...

*if you cannot bear to see two fiddler love crabs then don't open the links*

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n204 ... una006.jpg

And a video (there is sound, but there is nothing to hear:

http://s113.photobucket.com/albums/n204 ... una008.flv

I took three videos, so if you want to see the others (or more pics), just ask. There is more "action" shall we say in the other videos (claw waving, etc).

Ryan

Well... don't see any eggs today. Maybe tomorrow!

Well, cranlsn, this site is about crabs, so I guess it works. It is crab behaviour, even if it isn't hermits.

You know, practically everyone I know confuses fidds and hermits. Even my parents, who have had to live with crabs going through the house for over a year!

BTW, what do you think of the sig change? For the fidds? LOL

Welll, maybe not so awesome. This happened under a month ago as well, and I only realized after, thanks to Silent Protagonist, that I was doing almost everything wrong . I need a lot of supplies, and a bigger tank. Anyway, I don't see eggs yet. It is said to take two weeks, but I don't know if that is in total from when they mate, or after you see the eggs.

Yeah, but just the food and special feeders alone cost like 30 US (I'm in Canada) and I also need a water heater and 20 gallon tall. I don't want to buy one, as I have nowhere to store it after. I need to rent one, or borrow one. And it isn't just money, but also time. 2 water changes+ per week. And that's not easy to do with plankton-sized fiddlers.

Anyway, there is a picture or two from about a month ago in this forum (General). Luna (the female fidd) has eggs under her tail, like will probably happen within a few days here.