PinGer's Land Hermit Crabs :)

**PinGer** · 15th Oct 2007, 01:16

Bigger girl is pregnant with eggs

The boys!

Naked Baby

**Cacatuoides** · 15th Oct 2007, 02:13

Wow, I've never seen anyone successful in keeping hermit crabs...and to the extend of breeding them and having baby hermit crabs!!

How did you manage to do that?

Congrats on your babies!

**totoro2k** · 15th Oct 2007, 09:07

Cool. How many babies ?

**Sunfire** · 15th Oct 2007, 17:42

Geee did you really breed em yourself? I thought baby hermit crabs were hatched as plankton and float around the seas in larvae stage.

**EvolutionZ** · 15th Oct 2007, 19:10

they are able to carry eggs. but they are unable to hatch and raise the young. it takes lots of years for a baby hermit to get to a jumbosize hermit. proberly 20 or 30years. and to hatch hermits.. you need both land and sea. not easy though.

**PinGer** · 15th Oct 2007, 20:44

I did not breed the crabs myself. The were given to me when i bought the bigger crabs

I just had a new tank set up I'll post up the pictures later

**PLee** · 15th Oct 2007, 21:33

wow... very interesting

**PinGer** · 15th Oct 2007, 22:22

**PLee** · 15th Oct 2007, 23:05

nice update and thanx for sharing.

Care to also tell us about your tank setup and maintenance so we can learn ?

**PinGer** · 15th Oct 2007, 23:43

my tank set up
1. approx 500mm x 290mm x290mm glass curve tank.
2. approx 11kg of c-0 or c-01 nt too sure coral sand.
3. 2 water dish as you all can see, salt water being the bigger portion and fresh water being the smaller portion.
4. loads of places for them to hide and climb.

Maintenance

1. if possible change the water daily else change once in a few days.
2. mist them everyday to maintain moisture in the tank.
3. Feed them daily..
4. Sand change or wash once a month

Well I'm the lazy person so once a month:X

**PLee** · 15th Oct 2007, 23:45

what kind of food fo they eat ?

**PinGer** · 16th Oct 2007, 00:15

fruits, veg, fish food, commercial hermit crab food.

I fed them pop corn with no salt, sugar or oil today

Popped them myself

avoid table salt and aloevera.

**Cacatuoides** · 16th Oct 2007, 01:27

wow, the setup looks like a mini-paradise for them...
Happy hermits!!

**Johnc** · 16th Oct 2007, 17:06

Nice set up. Just a couple of suggestions if this is the first time you are keeping the ruggies. You might already know, but it is hard to tell from the photo.

(1) The sand will need to be deep enough for them to bury themselves when moulting. They can 'disappear' under the sand for weeks for this purpose.

(2) The salt water should be deep enough for them to be completely submerged. This is so that they can wash them themselves from any parasites that may start to be attracted to them. In my daughter's setup, the tank is partitioned into 3, a fresh water portion, a land portion and a sea water portion. The crabs appear to take nightly swims in the marine partition.

(3) Get some Ketapang leaves. These will both provide cover for them during the day as well as serve as food supplement. The ruggies will actually eat the leaves as they do in the wild.

(4) Watch out for pesticides when feeding fruits and vegetable. It is never safe to feed them vegetable unless they are organically grown. For fruits and carrots, make sure the skin is peeled off or thoroughly washed.

(5) It is hard to keep females with eggs alive. Most of them will die in captivity for some reason... so if you can exchange it with the person you buy from, you should. They should be returned to the wild. Do not release your ruggies at our shore, however. AVA specifically forbids that, I think so as to prevent any spread of disease to the local diminishing population of ruggies.

Hope this is useful in some ways.

Enjoy your ruggies. They can be a lot of fun and are very hardy!

Regards,

/John

**Cacatuoides** · 16th Oct 2007, 17:17

Hi John,

Any pictures of your setup?

**Johnc** · 16th Oct 2007, 19:46

Pictures can be found here http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...ad.php?t=33412

/John

**PinGer** · 16th Oct 2007, 23:31

Thanks for the info

1. I don't think they are ruggies as there are no stitches on their claws. Except for one.

2. Depth of sand is about 3 inches deep.It should be sufficient for even my biggest crab.

3. As for the female hermie, i realise theres no more eggs in the shell. so far its been doing well

**ExpelledBAN** · 17th Oct 2007, 08:06

Hermitcrabassociation.com

Great site.
O yea your Big purplse crab is A Indonesians and the rest Look Ecuadorian hermit crabs

**PinGer** · 17th Oct 2007, 12:13

The bigger purples are not A Indonesian crabs. As for the rest, I do suspect that they are Ecuadorians too. I'l take a closer picture between the indo and the bigger purple later

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