HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Posted: **Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:14 pm**

Beautiful!

Posted: **Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:03 pm**

Mokulele, you can't forget some of your stunningly blue crabs from your other threads!

Mokulele_Hawai'i' wrote:

Posted: **Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:36 pm**

I can only say "Wow!" again...

Posted: **Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:31 pm**

CreepyCrawly wrote:Link?

I don't think anyone's given you the link/recipe, so here it is:

Hermit-Crabs.com wrote:2 large cuttlebones
1 cup dried rice (any non-instant type)
1 cup unflavored oatmeal
1 tsp. salt, uniodized*
1/4 cup dried plankton, krill or any other very stinky dried sealife
2 tablespoons spirulina powder (you can buy this at almost any health food store)
*Do not use table salt, but sea salt or aquarium salt

^In addition to that, you're supposed to grind it in a food processor or coffee grinder.

She also says that you can add in additional ingredients like dried fruit, flax seed, or wheat germ.

I also have a staple kibble that I've made myself from a variety of dried fruits and other nutrients.

I'm pretty confident that my crabs could practically live off of my kibble.

Posted: **Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:45 pm**

Kilimanjaro wrote:Mokulele, you can't forget some of your stunningly blue crabs from your other threads!

Absolutely gorgeous!

Posted: **Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:28 pm**

Kilimanjaro wrote: I don't think anyone's given you the link/recipe, so here it is:
^In addition to that, you're supposed to grind it in a food processor or coffee grinder. She also says that you can add in additional ingredients like dried fruit, flax seed, or wheat germ.

I also have a staple kibble that I've made myself from a variety of dried fruits and other nutrients. I'm pretty confident that my crabs could practically live off of my kibble.

Thanks!!!!

Posted: **Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:42 am**

kevinoh33 wrote:

You make me jealous

Nice crabs though

May be they are not real "C.purpureus", real C.purpureus do not have black-brown stripes on the eyestalks.
They look like blue colour of C. rugosus .

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:01 am**

I love all the blue-colored hermies!

Posted: **Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:07 pm**

tonycoenobita wrote:
May be they are not real "C.purpureus", real C.purpureus do not have black-brown stripes on the eyestalks.
They look like blue colour of C. rugosus .

No ... I'm very familiar with blue-colored C.rugosus since I quite often encounter them here. Those specimens looks completely different from ruggies and have closer characteristics to C.purpureus ( especially the antennae, the eyes, and the legs ). Or perhaps this is a subspecies of C.purpureus ... since they have what you called black-brown stripes - but if you see my Okinawan Blueberry you can also notice eye-smudges at the bottom of the eyestalks. The ridges / stitch marks on the BP are completely different from those of C.rugosus. As an experienced hobbyist I'm very sure they are not a C.rugosus.

Please compare:
Indonesian Blue Ruggie & Okinawan Blueberry

Indonesian Blue Ruggie's BP:

Indonesian Blueberry's BP:

And here is an additional close up picture on my blueberry's BP:

Posted: **Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:34 pm**

I WISH I HAS A BLUE HERMIE

Posted: **Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:56 pm**

I had the privilege of adopting a sky-blue-ish Coenobita clypeatus from Whydorbirdsliketofly. Of course, I'm anticipating the fact that he may not hold on to the blue color in subsequent molts under my care...oh well. At least I have the pics...

Meet Harry

:

Friendly and handle-able!

Here he is picking out a cricket to eat:

And he grabs and runs away with one...

Posted: **Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:08 pm**

That's a really cool Blue Pincher, MudCrabDude!

Posted: **Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:52 pm**

I know that you guys said that they are not avalible in the states but that the HCV is considering getting them, dose anyone know if the HCV will infact get them?

What other speacies are there?
Strawberry
PP
E
Indo
Ruggie
Viola

Posted: **Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:19 pm**

These are the species that I recognize as pets, but there are more:

Coenobita clypeatus, Purple Pincher
Coenobita compressus, Ecuadorian
Coenobita perlatus, Strawberry
Coenobita brevimanus, Indo
Coenobita rugosus, Ruggie
Coenobita violascens, Viola
Coenobita cavipes, Cavipe
Coenobita variabilis, Aussie
Coenobita purpureus, Blueberry

Posted: **Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:31 pm**

Kilimanjaro wrote:That's a really cool Blue Pincher, MudCrabDude!

I see what you did there...

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