 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. |