My name is Heather, and I have just become the proud new mommy to Washburn and Zoey. My daughter decided that hermit crabs were what she wanted as pets so I decided after considering all the care and cost to do this ( I always do when considering a new species of pet ) I decided that it was time to go ahead and do it.
Zoey and Washburn are Purple Pincher crabs. We named them after characters from our favorite show "Firefly" Washburn is about golfball size, and Zoey is a bit bigger. They are housed in a 10gal aquarium with blue playsand for substrate and love rose and petunia pettels. My boyfriend, Les is just as crazy about them as I am. Kathryn, ironically has lost her interest in them, however, the grownups are all head over heals for them. I'm always looking for good advice when I own new species pets. Thus my reason for joining!
). I am even more into crabs now then at the beginning, when a science experiment yielded an animal (small, of course), and my science teacher told myself, and a few others about LHCs. I didn't even know that they existed, LHCs. I always just thought that there were marine hermit crabs. 
). I was the only one who brought my crab home. 
) welcome, washnzoeysmom, to HCA!