New to "hermit-crabbing"

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:31 pm

!!SUCESS!!

I realised it would be easyer to tell weather my hermit crab was a boy or girl if I hold them above me, rather than trying to flip them over once they came of of their shell >.> *is very stupid* I guessed right!! Hermy is male and shelly is female!! ^-^ I'm so happy

annopia · Post by **annopia** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:42 pm

good for you! it took me a long while to sex my crabs, some websites would even tell me it was impossable! I seem to get more girls than boys though, out of all the hermies I have ever owned, 3 are male and 7 are female.

Caroline

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:48 pm

It's things like that that make me glad I stumbled upon Christa Wilkin's website. it answered alost all my questions, even ones I didn't know I had untill she answered them o.o

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:49 pm

one thing I'd like to know... how often, if at all dose breeding occur among pet hermit crabs? O.O

annopia · Post by **annopia** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:35 pm

bredding happens rarely in captivity, and I don't believe that there has ever been a case of the spawn living to become adult hermit crabs. this is because baby hermies, when they hatch, are microscopic and flot as zooplankton in the ocean, living on phytoplankton.

however, if you look in the general section, there is an ongoing thread by a crabber whose hermie laid eggs. she put them in salt water and they hatched, and she has been able to keep some of them alive for five days now by feeding them phytoplankton. they are still in the baby stage though.

Caroline