RiNiKy506 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 7:44 pm
What a big beautiful guy! I have one that is about 8, well he’ll be 9 this year but I adopted him so I don’t have any pictures of him like that to be able to compare, I wish I did. It’s so awesome seeing them do so well. Congratulations on having him for so long, he is beautiful!
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Thank you very much. "Young Nastyman!" (the exclamation point is part of the name, sorry about that
) will also be nine with me this upcoming Nov. 10, but he'll be most likely buried under again (either brumating or molting or both) as he's been doing every year's end since I first had him, so I decided to take and post pics now before he buries under.
He's the oldest land hermit crab to live with me for this long and the biggest growth and growth rate of any previous crab I've taken care since the many, many years of crabbing (my previous record was 4 years for two C. brevimanus, but I had to adopt them out...long story). I had so many pass away so needlessly, reading so much bad advice about hermit keeping, until I encountered HCA back in 2007.
I'm hoping to keep him as long as Carol Ormes has Jonathan L. Crab, if not longer.
On a side note, when over ten years ago, Jonathan Livingston Crab was 30 years old and Kate passed away, I thought Jonathan would soon shortly follow; I had not expected, over 10 years later, to hear and see on youtube that Jonathan Crab is still alive, over 40 years. Who would've thought?
Off and on land hermit crab keeper since 1985. Currently with two Coenobita clypeatus:
"Young Nastyman!" (since November 10, 2011) and "Lobster Festival" (since June 11, 2012) kept solo, each in their own tanks.
Kinda like people; one moment they're little kids waiting for the next episode of Adventure Time, then BAM, next moment they're off to college. Wow...has it been that long........... 
