The Crab Street Journal

CSJ welcomes its newest Sister Site member- Hermit Crab Paradise

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:43:16 +0000

Hermit Crab Paradise has joined the esteemed ranks of The Crab Street Journal's Sister Sites to become the 9th (active) member of the Crustacean Care Coalition. Hermit Crab Paradiseis committed to providing current, accurate care information and abiding by the Code of Ethics of the program.

Sister Site: Hermit Crab Paradise

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:40:00 +0000

Hello everyone, my name is Wai and I am from Australia. The very first time I saw land hermit crabs was on the day a primary school friend brought in his single hermit crab to run around the classroom floor. Roughly two years after that encounter, I adopted Toejam and Earl on 18 May 2003. As a result of deeming the care advice from any pet store as quality, I learnt things the hard way; a process which involved the death of many hermit crabs up till now. It was not until Toejams death in the critter keeper with wood shavings 11 months later that I realised something was probably wrong. I proceeded to do some reading on a certain hermit crab website and created Hermit Crab Paradise on 18 April 2004 to publish what I had learnt. I adopted nine more hermit crabs over time, but they all died by July 2005. My parents forbid me from adopting any more until I finished high school, so I used the time to focus on researching online. To my surprise, I realised how many mistakes I had made in the past and that the money spent on adopting more hermit crabs should have been used to buy better supplies. On 16 November 2008, I commenced crabbing again with greater success. With the help of many other experienced crabbers, everything on Hermit Crab Paradise was rewritten to reflect todays quality land hermit crab keeping techniques.

Pre Molt Symptoms

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:20:00 +0000

Observed Premolt Symptoms

by Marie Davis

At times, crabbers become concerned due to certain actions their hermit crabs are beginning to display. Often, they are concerned that the hermit crab is ill, or has another form of complication happening that needs attention. Where, as on occasions, the symptoms they are observing may be due to a stressful situation, whether it be from their past or current living conditions, there are many times that the hermit crab is displaying premolt symptoms. If one knows that he/she has provided the hermit crab with the essentials it needs to thrive (proper humidity level, proper temperature, proper diet, bacteria/mold and a pest-free environment, etc.), what you are beginning to observe may very well be premolt symptoms that the hermit crab is displaying. With the numerous molts we have had, I would like to share some of the premolt symptoms I have observed with our hermit crabs and hope it can be of some help to ease other crabbers concerns.

Zoea

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:09:45 +0000

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Zoea 1

Little shrimp-like baby 36 hrs life (Please view full size) [Singapore]

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Tetracycline (Melafix?)

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:56:25 +0000

During our first month of crabbing due to the lack of knowledge regarding proper hermit crab care our crabitat, as well as possibly the hermit crabs, had a bacteria infection. We were instructed to give the hermit crabs a tetracycline bath daily for a week, as well as deep clean the crabitat.

Escaped Hermit Crab

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:21:25 +0000

On occasions one may find that when they do an antenna count they seem to be missing a hermit crab? Where possibly could it be? All empty shells have been looked into, including doing the precaution of turning the shells upside down and placing water within them. There have been occasions when a hermit crab has changed shells and fits so far down within it they are impossible to see. By placing water within the shells and turning them hole side up, if the shell moves hole side down a crabber knows there is a resident within it.

Approaching a Pet Store

Sun, 03 May 2009 22:35:30 +0000

When you find a pet store that conditions for hermit crabs are less than ideal, your first reaction is to get mad. Get mad at the store, get mad and possibly say things to the person working in this area. You might tell them what you think of their store and march out! That was my gut reaction too. I was so angry and was in tears. I was told by the “acting manager” his hands were tied and there was nothing he could do. So I left the store.

The Crab Street Journal You Tube Channel

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:40:00 +0000

Please check out The Crab Street Journal YouTube channel and consider submitting your videos for upload to our channel. This will enable us to build our library of great hermit crab videos that will be of benefit of to our members. You can submit a video by emailing us the video or a link to download the video at: video [at] crabstreetjournal dot com

New site design

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:31:20 +0000

Hello everybody,

You probably don't know me, but I've been working hard on this site over the last few weeks, to give it a more modern layout and to update the site's look to what you expect from a modern site.

The new site design is almost completed, and is ready for external judgement, and I would like to ask you guys what you think about the new site. As this site is a bit too wide still to run the new layout properly, I'm going to post a screenshot of the layout in action. It still needs some tweaks, but I expect it may run on this site as soon as next week.

I need you guys to tell me if you like the new design, or if you hate it. Tell me if you like the colors, or hate it. Tell me everything, so I can modify it. Don't stop your good ideas, I'm doing anything I can to help you!

The screenshot of the theme (this is on my test site, I'm finishing the last tweaks today, and I'll do your requests after finishing those tweaks ^^):

(click to view full image)

Kevin

Hermit Crab Emergency

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:30:00 +0000

We are sorry that you are experiencing a crab care emergency. Below
are some links and information to our most commonly experienced
emergency situations.

This is not to replace help from a real person but to get you on the
right track until someone is available to answer your email. The emergency help account is not monitored 24/7 but someone will get back to you ASAP. Your feedback will help us make this automated response as helpful as possible, please let us know if you found the information you were seeking in these links!!<