HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Hello!
My name is Kaleigh.
I have been crabbing around 10 years and 4 of those years have only been crabbing as you may say "correctly." My crabbing started when I was about 10 years old. My family and I went to Rhode Island every year for a family vacation. We have six children in the family and as soon as we were all unpacked we ventured out to the Purple Ape store where we all got a hermit crab of our own to play with throughout our vacation. The hermit crabs were the high light of our vacation and for small children of course we didn't know how to properly care for them so they would all last about a week. I was the oldest and started doing research and was able to keep my hermit crabs alive for several years. We all came to an agreement that everyone could get a hermit crab and at the end of the week it would stay with me and in my tank. The hermit crabs became a tradition every year and on Wednesdays we would bring them back to the Purple Ape where they held hermit crab races. Sounds cheesy but the event every week was actually huge and the crowds are very large and loud!!!

My crabbing hobby came to a halt when I started attending college and left my hermit crabs home for my mom and sister to watch over while I was away. Needless to say they "forgot" them and they died.

Now that I am not in school I have taken up the hobby again. I have 5 hermit crabs which may go down to 4 soon. I had a lid that wasn't very safe and the kitty managed to get in the tank and dig up a molter and then proceeded to use the sand and substrate as her litter box...... The hermies are now in ISO. Molter has his/her own ISO and the other 4 are scurrying around like maniacs!

As I have ordered a new lid and waiting for it to arrive in the mail I have decided to re-decorate my tank..... which then lead to buying more hermie stuff which then lead to DIY projects which then lead me back to HCA!!! I have been a member of HCA for 3 years now but never formely introduced myself. Now that I am back I plan on being very active with the community and making new hermie friends. I am also looking to give a forever home to any hermies that are in need of being adopted.

I will be sexing my hermit crabs later and posting pictures of them. They all need names! So once pictures are up please send name suggestions!

Welcome back and a formal welcome to you!
I look forward into seeing your crabby pictures, as they are like a staple diet on HCA..

Just wanted to say Nice to meet you, and Welcome back!

Welcome back to the Wonderful World of Crabbing and we all look forward to pics of the crabs and crabitat!

I would like to thank everyone for welcoming me back. 2 years ago when I was on this site I would be lucky to get 1 response to my posts. It is nice to see that the forums/topics have become more active!!! Cant wait to get to know you all and chat.
Okay so I took some photos of my hermit crabs to share with everyone!


Hermit Crab #1: No Name: Male



Hermit Crab #2: No Name: Female



Hermit Crab #3: No Name: Female



Hermit Crab #4: Seabiscuit: Male



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#4 Seabiscuit

I apologize for the pictures being sideways!

Awww, cuties! All cute little baby PPs. The little PPs are so adorable-it's very hard for me to resist them when I go to pet stores.

So, so cute! Enjoy the tinys while you can 'cause before you know it, they'll all molt and emerge twice the size in one go .

I am totally enjoying the little guys! Always had a love for them and their little purple claws!
I am thinking of going with famous horse names. I have one named Seabiscuit already which I find awfully ADORABLE.

Still need names for the other guys. I had my nieces and nephews over last night and they were helping me set up the new and improved crabatat and I thought them being kids they could come up with cute names but they all were, in my opinion, not cute and creative.(Such as Frank or Mr. A) LOL. I let them think whatever they wanted to name them but secretly I am sooooo finding new names!

There were so many cool names when I attended UConn and worked with the horses there.
Some names I am considering:
- Ring Master
- Valentino
- Mastermind
- Tea Party
- Fire when Ready
- One Hot Tamale

I was also thinking of Racehorses:
- Barbaro
- American Pharoah
- Eight Bells
- Seattle Slew
- Affirmed
- War Admiral
- Secretariat

Kaleighshermies wrote:I was also thinking of Racehorses:
- Barbaro
- American Pharoah
- Eight Bells
- Seattle Slew
- Affirmed
- War Admiral
- Secretariat

For the girl(s), don't forget Ruffian, Winning Colors, Genuine Risk and Rachel Alexandra!

Thanks!
I will deff use a few of those! I need to observe their personalities more to assign names

I came to the conclusion that I am going with the theme of Cloud the Mustang.


Hermie #1 is now Cloud after the great stallion who stole many people's hearts in Ginger Kathren's documentary
Hermie #2 is now Sitka after Cloud's lead mare who was forever faithful to cloud
Hermie #3 is now Blue Sioux after Red Raven's lead mare. Red Raven is Cloud's brother. (Both were sired by Raven)

hermie #4 I am thinking about keeping his name as Seabuiscut...... I am thinking about Shaman though who was a very dominating stallion who had Sitka before Cloud. Cloud and Shaman had many brutal encounters which ended bloody every time.
What do you guys think? Seabuiscut or Shaman???

I have not mentioned in this thread before but I do have a 5th hermit crab in ISO right now. It is unclear whether she is dead or alive.... You can read about her situation in the Emergency Forum. I feel guilty that I have yet to name her. If she makes it through I think I will name her Storm. As she made it through the "storm" and survived.

Cloud, Blue Sioux and Sitka enjoying a meal!