Pictures of my crabitats (Successful Viola Breeding)

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Re: Pictures of my crabitats and my land hermit crabs

Post by hermitcrabfanatic » Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:56 pm

WOW your crabitat is an inspiration! I love the connecting tube. Do you have a lot of the crabbies that go in it?

Your hermies are very cute by the way. :)

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Post by Curlz » Sat Nov 17, 2012 5:40 pm

thank you @hertmicrabdanatic.
In these two terrarium(s?) are living 16 adult crabs.

the breedings are living seperately in an own smaler terrarium.

@sandra03: yes the can pass without any issues. Even the biggest one with a 4.33 inches "Pleuroploca trapezium" shell. :)
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Re: Pictures of my crabitats and my land hermit crabs

Post by merrybrakefield » Fri Nov 23, 2012 1:46 am

Wonderful tank! Beautiful hermies, Where were you able to find hermit's? I looked at a few pet stores while my husband and I were stationed there(in Baumholder) and i found nothing but water hermit crabs. I suppose i didn't look hard enough.

But again Congrats on the babies and on such a beautiful and well organized crabitat

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Post by Rocky » Fri Nov 23, 2012 2:31 am

merrybrakefield wrote:Wonderful tank! Beautiful hermies, Where were you able to find hermit's? I looked at a few pet stores while my husband and I were stationed there(in Baumholder) and i found nothing but water hermit crabs. I suppose i didn't look hard enough.

But again Congrats on the babies and on such a beautiful and well organized crabitat
Curlz lives in Germany :P Lot's of our international members have an easier time finding hermies :)
(pet stores sometimes hide away the hermies, try asking an employee. Or, since you're in the US, you could order them online from LHC or something, or even ask a mom and pop store if they could order them)
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Re: Pictures of my crabitats and my land hermit crabs

Post by Curlz » Fri Nov 23, 2012 5:49 pm

hi there,

oh, I have to search for "Baumholder". It's a small town near "Idar-Oberstein" and "Wiesbaden" :)

There are a some shops selling LHS. Most of them can be found in the bigger towns, like Cologne or Frankfurt. But in some cases you can find them in small shops which are selling reptiles. Some bigger pet shops and even in DIY markets you can find LHC here in Germany - with a little bit of luck. :)
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Re: Pictures of my crabitats and my land hermit crabs

Post by HermitLover-101 » Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:12 pm

I would just love to raise a baby hermit. :) Good luck with all your future breedings! <3
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Re: Pictures of my crabitats and my land hermit crabs

Post by Curlz » Wed Dec 05, 2012 3:30 am

:) thank you. My last try was not successful. I am waiting for the next larvae to come.
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Re: Pictures of my crabitats and my land hermit crabs

Post by Rocky » Sun Dec 09, 2012 3:14 pm

Curlz wrote::) thank you. My last try was not successful. I am waiting for the next larvae to come.
Do you mean you lost your babies? :(
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Re: Pictures of my crabitats and my land hermit crabs

Post by kuza » Sun Dec 09, 2012 3:32 pm

no no she means the last batch of eggs, I think she still has 13 for sure of the babies.

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Re: Pictures of my crabitats and my land hermit crabs

Post by Curlz » Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:11 am

thx @ kuza

right. The 13 breedings are still alive and they are growing faster as I thought.

I have tried to breed them again, but this try was not successful. I hope to do it again in january.
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Re: Pictures of my crabitats and my land hermit crabs

Post by Curlz » Sat Dec 22, 2012 12:43 pm

yes out of 300 (round about) larvae I got 13 babies :)

The next try startet today. I thought the next larvae will come in january, but this morning we got larva in the saltwater tank. :)
(violas again, I am 99% sure)
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Re: Pictures of my crabitats and my land hermit crabs

Post by kuza » Sat Dec 22, 2012 12:46 pm

nice, good luck!

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Post by Curlz » Wed Dec 26, 2012 4:29 pm

thank you, kuza :)
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Post by aussieJJDude » Thu Dec 27, 2012 1:39 am

good luck with the lil ones :D
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Re: Pictures of my crabitats and my land hermit crabs

Post by Curlz » Thu Dec 27, 2012 7:43 am

thank you, too @ aussieJJDude :)

seems all fine at the moment. A lot of larvae still alive. Only few died in the first 3 days. They are 6 days old now. And they have molt for the first time.
I hope that this try will be as good as the successfull one.
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