Seeing this makes me so happy!! Most hermit crabs sold by the beach are taken from the wild since they're somewhat hard to breed in captivity. The fact you're breeding them in a controlled and careful environment, as well as giving them appropriate habitats is so wonderful. Look at those sweet little babies~
This video like a treasure for me, never expected there are captivity for Hermit crab, and never expected it would be so complicated and need very special care 😅
This is incredible, Mary! More than 20 years ago, I was a founding member of The Hermit Crab Association, and my personal hope was that one day we'd learn how to breed hermit crabs in captivity and hopefully move them from being sold as disposable souvenirs on the boardwalk to REAL pets to adopt in a pet store! What you have done here makes my heart INCREDIBLY HAPPY! Bravo a thousand times!
wow! the conditions they go through and against all odds, in nature..for them to be plucked from their home for a painted shell. what great success you're showing! thank you for this footage
God Bless you for all your amazing work on changing this industry. And also thank you for putting together this AWESOME video..It was so amazing and beautiful to see.. I sit here typing this crying pure tears of ultimate happiness..
This is amazing!!! I didn't think it could be done. With all your hard work and your love for these guys there is now hope for these little creatures!! Your babies are adorable! Thank you for taking the time to start a captive breeding program for hermit crabs. It has been done for reptiles, amphibians, mammals, fish, etc., so it's about time hermit crabs will get attention!
They look like tiny shrimps or lobsters! I never knew hermit crabs start life swimming around in water seeing as I've only seen them on land. So interesting
Just read your blog and it was so inspiring! Feel we could also try the method on some land crab species that are being captured for pet trade :D Will try that in the future when I have time
Absolutely in awe over what it takes to do this! Thank you for doing what you do. I've recently gotten into keeping hermit crabs properly after some failed attempts as a child waaaay before the time of the interwebs. Would so love to adopt!
This is amazing!!! You are going to change the industry and help protect the wild population of these underappreciated yet amazing little animals. A thousand cheers to you and your miracle babies!!!
Your work is so inspirational! Thanks to people like you I will never shop for these guys from a store again. Adopting is the way to go! Good work and good luck changing the industry forever!
This is amazing! I just happened across your video when looking at videos of hermit crabs changing shells. I am very impressed with the work you are doing. I really hope you are successful & can have a fully functional breeding program where you sell to those beach shops & such that sell so many hermit crabs. I honestly never thought about "is this hermit crab domestic or fom the wild?" And i believe they should NOT take hermits from the wild to sell into captivity. Your breeding program is a way better option & it could potentially help boost the numbers of hermi crabs in the wild! There is so much potential here! A study has been done that say something like more than 500,000 hermit crab die each year in the Indian and Pacific ocean areas from trash pollution. Lack of shells means they mistake and use trash instead & sometimes become stuck, or the plastic leaches harmful chemicals into their bodies and they die. 😢😢😢 So i think hermit crabs just might be endangered one day, and they will need breeding programs to try to stop certain breeds from extinction.
Mad respect, I am trying to breed reef hermit crabs but so far they didn't even mate. It's amazing what you managed and more people in the hobby should try to breed mostly wild caught animals.
Can't ❤ this enough! Such great pics and video here! Retiring the 20G long to the little so she can breed isopods but will be "taking it back" next year for a couple of your babies! They are adorbs! 🥰 Praying for all your babies and the CCS group too! Changing the industry for the better! 😁 #changeiscoming #onecrabatatime
This is really cool and thank you for shareing this video. I am getting the ich where i would like to get a few more hermit crabs, but i will not buy any more hermit crabs at all from where they sell hermit crabs, crab Central Station has taught me a lot and i appreciate all of them and all the help they are helping me with.
I honestly thought this was impossible. It's so impressive that you've achieved what I thought was unachievable! Like many kids, I had hermit crabs as a kid before me or anyone knew anything about hermit crabs. I did my best, but only managed to keep them alive for 5 years. Eventually I learned that in the wild they can live past 20, and I learned about how harmful the hermit crab industry is to the actual crabs, and decided to never keep them as pets again. Despite this I have still been learning about them because I find them so interesting, but I never thought the day would come when someone would manage to breed them in captivity. I hope that someday I will be able to adopt captive bred hermit crabs, and give them the care they deserve 🙂
Congrats on cracking the code to successfully breeding them! This is a huge step towards the conservation of the species in the wild, now that we can establish healthy captive populations for the hobby! Their collective sleeping spot is cute as heck. I also need to ask, what is the song that plays from 2:40 to the end? Can't seem to find it anywhere!
They are so cute I could die! An huh... for some reason I thought they couldn't be hatched in captivity. Or at least that's what I've been told, PetCo hasn't been known of being truthful with all their information regarding their animals.
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