Who has successfully bred crabs?

[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?

[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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[C: ClareCrabOwner :)]

Thank you! I'll do that.

[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!

[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.

[C: ClareCrabOwner :)]

I don't have a whole lot of time right now...
Maybe I'll breed crabs when I retire

[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.

[HermitGuy3]

I hope I can try to breed someday too!

[C: ClareCrabOwner :)]

Could I have a link to the hermit house page? I can't find it. Thanks!

[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!

[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

[C: ClareCrabOwner :)]

Wow! That's cool! Good job