"Teaching" a crab to climb?

[Spirit Of Radio]

Hey all,

I'm relatively new to crabbing and about a month ago I purchased three PP's from my local pet store. Two of them took to their new crabitat just fine, and are having a blast climbing on all the different objects I have placed in their enclosure.The third, however, I have never seen anywhere other than ground level. I know crabs have a strong instinct to climb, but since this one is so young (about nickel sized) is it possible that he just doesn't know how to climb? If I placed him on top of some of the objects in the enclosure, would he figure it out on his own?

[Motörcrab]

I believe crabs tend to learn from each other. We see it a lot with exercise wheels. It will take days or weeks for one to find and use it. Once that one crab figures it out the others soon follow! We have seen our captive bred babies follow and watch the bigger crabs. I don't think you are going to teach crabs any tricks but I do feel they learn about their surroundings. I believe this because a crab will be in the wheel, get out for a snack or water, then go right back in the wheel. They learn where things are. Sometimes crabs just take a long time to adjust to new habitats.

[Arkos]

I believe crabs tend to learn from each other. We see it a lot with exercise wheels. It will take days or weeks for one to find and use it. Once that one crab figures it out the others soon follow! We have seen our captive bred babies follow and watch the bigger crabs. I don't think you are going to teach crabs any tricks but I do feel they learn about their surroundings. I believe this because a crab will be in the wheel, get out for a snack or water, then go right back in the wheel. They learn where things are. Sometimes crabs just take a long time to adjust to new habitats.

You have captive bred hermits? I thought no one had figured that one out yet. Can you tell me a little more?

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[Motörcrab]

Mary Akers has been extremely successful with captive breeding. In 2018 she had so many that she started to adopt them out! In 2019 her adoption weekend morphed into an international hermit crab convention, Crab Con! 2021 will be the third convention and will be held virtually again this year like last year.

http://maryakers.com/inthecrabitat/


https://crabcon.org/




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[crabbycasey]

Look at that precious lil Hermie!


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[CrabbyLover77]

Mary Akers has been extremely successful with captive breeding. In 2018 she had so many that she started to adopt them out! In 2019 her adoption weekend morphed into an international hermit crab convention, Crab Con! 2021 will be the third convention and will be held virtually again this year like last year.

http://maryakers.com/inthecrabitat/


https://crabcon.org/




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Adorable!

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