Happy to see another round of babies! One thing I've been giving considerable thought to is your documented problem of the Zoea congregating at the bottom. It seems like once that starts occurring en-masse it's the beginning of the end. I'm not a hydrodynamic expert or anything, but I have to believe there's some passive method of creating a circular current in your krisels to sweep 'em off the bottom. Is it possible to over-agitate the water? What if the air stone were only on one side of the krisel? I'm imagining a system similar in principle to aquarium under-gravel filters, where the rising airstone bubbles serve to force water around.
Yes! The krisiels are designed to create just that, a circular motion, mimicking the tide of the ocean. We used just one airstone at first... but the babies really congregated at the bottom so we added the second. You are definitely on the right track and we SO APPRECIATE your input. Thank you so very much for sharing 😊❤☺
It's great that people are doing this now,breeding animals in captivity is the best way to turn wild animals such as hermit crabs into actual pets. Though sadly I don't expect captive bred hermits to become even a considerable fraction of the amount sold annually for many,many years.
Ahhhh!!!!!! So excited for you ladies. You ladies are doing amazing things whether they make it to land or not. Please don’t be so hard on yourselves. So following this and sending strength and positive vibes. Thank you so much for sharing this journey, good luck!
Young family, thank you so much for your encouragement and support, it means so much to us and helps us keep our heads up and working towards our goal! We appreciate you! 🥰
Came here from Snake Discovery, they went enting at a Costa Rica beach and found lots of native hermit crabs there! They didn't take any home, of course. But they said that Hermit Crabs were super hard to breed in captivity, so I went looking to see what all went into it. I found you and Mary Akers! Thank you for documenting your attempts, I'm learning a lot!
Thanks for the idea! We will include more clips in the future. We may even do one full video of just Zoeae moving around if you guys would like to see that 😊
I just want to say I haven't had hermit crabs since I was a kid. Back then the going thing was Hermits do not bred in captivity. So it is wonderful to see this. I don't have crabs but if they're breeding their happy. I'm so relieved that crabs all over the world are getting better care etc. You're beautiful 😍
Awe! What a sweet and encouraging comment! Thank you so much! I know this was a long time ago (during breeding season, we were so busy!). I appreciate your kindness and open acknowledgment of what we are doing. It's been a long hard road, and we are still learning and have a long way to go..... but we ARE doing it! We are making history! WHooHOO!
I love your channel you help me learn so much about my hermits! ❤ I have a question! What type of hermit crab is she? I currently have 2 purple pinchers!
Try turning the air stone off and filling the jar to just below the rim. Let it sit for just a few minutes to settle. Then slowly lower the jar into your larger tank as not to stir up sediment. The babies can swim out into the larger container but the sediment will stay in the jar.
Awesome! Welcome to Crab Central Station! We're so glad you joined our #CrabCrew! It's getting pretty exciting here as breeding season is just getting started. A couple exciting announcements coming soon 🥰
That’s exciting! Keep doing all the research you can now. We have so many care videos on our channel. Purple pinchers are very hardy and would be a great species to start with. You can get captive bred PP’s from Josh’s Frogs online!
Love your Channel Darcy! You and the girls are doing a fantastic job!!!! I think you should add sugar gliders to your menagerie!!! We have to rehome 😞 ours and need a home where we KNOW they will be taken care of. I would be willing to drive them down with all their supplies!!! Either way, off topic, LOVE your channel! I don’t even have a crabbie and like to watch!!! Your habitats are amazing! xo
Thank you so much, Brooke Pitt! Oh man, so sad you are having to rehome your sugars! I would love to take them, but I know nothing about them.... not to mention I'm up to my eyeballs in hermit crabs at the moment! 🤣😂😅
you could probably make a specialized pooter with a large reservoir and suck them in with aquarium tubing. a pooter uses your breath to suck in small critters, generally a terrestrial insect collection method. that way you could vacuum them all up quickly then just empty the reservoir into the zoea tank
Thank you so much for the support! We hope everyone can gain some new insights from these breeding videos. It will help us too, to look back and see what we did each year. 😊
Gosh I wish I had found your channel just two days earlier. I have a hermit crab who I just got and she laid a bunch of eggs while she was still being quarantined. I know absolutely nothing about taking care of eggs or keeping them alive so I just put them in salt water because that was the first thing I found on Google. They actually did spawn, but I think they all died. I don't really know what's normal and what isn't though. I wish I had found this sooner, also do the zoeae move as soon as they've hatched?
They only spawn in a specific salinity of salt water and the temperature depends on the species. Around 78-85 degrees if I remember right, it’s been a while…
Now that I think of it, a few year's ago I remember one of my hermit crabs having eggs, buy i did not know then what to do at the time, if this dose happen again I will message you because I do not have the stuff for breading and all.
@@doctordeath.5716 if they don't spawn the eggs in the water pools, they will drop them on the sand. At that point they become a great protien snack for the crabs.
Most of them won’t survive sadly. It’s very very hard to get these guys to land because they’re so small and fragile. If we get enough to land, we will adopt them out to forever homes 😊
Hello! I was wondering how many babies does a hermit crab actually have?? I have done some research and it said more than 800 and I couldn’t believe it! If so many were to be born, would I give them to a local pet store and they would accept them?
Most species have 10,000-20,000 babies. The survival rate is quite small though. For example - I had about 15,000 and only got 35 to land. It is very difficult to accomplish.
I am so sad 😭 I went to a store yesterday and saw baby crabs in a cage. They were no bigger then a dime maby smaller.it broke me heart and I can’t stop thinking about it.is there any thing you can do. 😭😢
3D Finley, the best thing to do with store crabs is to lovingly offer care advice to the shop keepers... maybe just tell them about our channel. Then, as hard as it is, don't buy them. Every time someone buys a hermit crab, it continues thencycle to capture more.
Water quality is very important to the survival. The dirty water lowers the water quality. We have to do 2-3 water changes a day so that we can remove the access food, poop, and sheds.
Yes, but the ocean is vast and includes a ecosystem the works to keep the water quality in balance. In a closed system, water quality is a huge challenge. The krisiels are not filtered, because the filter would just such up the babies. So, we have to be very diligent in monitoring and keeping good water quality.
If it is seagrass, this is a common issue. For us, we soak it in hermit crab saltwater and then air dry. The best thing to do in the tank is keep it off the substrate and away from the pools.
From my understanding based on my own research, unless you have an extremely specific environment and are putting the extra attention and work into it (like she does in this video) then the chances of it happening are slim to none. So you probably don’t have to worry about it being an issue. However, on the off chance it does happen, I’m sure you could go to hermit crab forums and find ppl.
Lots of people have hermit crabs that produce eggs. That’s the easy part. The hard part is raising the Zoeae. If you have the proper tank set up, and healthy crabs. They usually mate. 😊
In this case you just toss the babies outside. It’s sad yes, but we know not everyone can raise them! If they lay on the sand, the crabs will eat them.
so can people adopt crabs from you guys? Not specifically these babies, but just in general? I've been looking all over for different species to adopt and there is just virtually nowhere reliable to go to (besides of course the pet stores). I've specifically been on a mad hunt for some strawberries with no luck :
It’s really awesome to see baby crabs for the first time!! Thank you for all the effort you put into their lives!
Thank you for watching, I'm so glad you enjoyed the video.
I think you guys went above and beyond trying to save as many as you can. Congrats on all the babies!
Thanks Josh B! Man it is so hard to call it... we just want to make sure we give every baby a chance! Thanks for watching!
So happy that all this information is being noted and recorded
We will do our best! You guys get to see Brooke!!
Amazing job guys 🙌 can't wait to see as they grow, thanks for documentating it for us ❤ COME ON BABIES YOU CAN DO IT 🙏
I appreciate you rooting on the babies! I’m sure they can hear everyone rooting them on from around the world
This is so interesting to watch! I admire your dedication & all you do to make it happen. Amazing work ladies!
Erin, thanks for the kind message. All of this love and support gets us through 😊
Happy to see another round of babies!
One thing I've been giving considerable thought to is your documented problem of the Zoea congregating at the bottom. It seems like once that starts occurring en-masse it's the beginning of the end.
I'm not a hydrodynamic expert or anything, but I have to believe there's some passive method of creating a circular current in your krisels to sweep 'em off the bottom. Is it possible to over-agitate the water? What if the air stone were only on one side of the krisel? I'm imagining a system similar in principle to aquarium under-gravel filters, where the rising airstone bubbles serve to force water around.
Yes! The krisiels are designed to create just that, a circular motion, mimicking the tide of the ocean. We used just one airstone at first... but the babies really congregated at the bottom so we added the second. You are definitely on the right track and we SO APPRECIATE your input. Thank you so very much for sharing 😊❤☺
It's great that people are doing this now,breeding animals in captivity is the best way to turn wild animals such as hermit crabs into actual pets. Though sadly I don't expect captive bred hermits to become even a considerable fraction of the amount sold annually for many,many years.
Yes! That is the hope 🤞
Ahhhh!!!!!! So excited for you ladies. You ladies are doing amazing things whether they make it to land or not. Please don’t be so hard on yourselves. So following this and sending strength and positive vibes. Thank you so much for sharing this journey, good luck!
Young family, thank you so much for your encouragement and support, it means so much to us and helps us keep our heads up and working towards our goal! We appreciate you! 🥰
Came here from Snake Discovery, they went enting at a Costa Rica beach and found lots of native hermit crabs there! They didn't take any home, of course. But they said that Hermit Crabs were super hard to breed in captivity, so I went looking to see what all went into it. I found you and Mary Akers! Thank you for documenting your attempts, I'm learning a lot!
Welcome to Crab Central Station! We love Snake Discovery! Wouldn't it be awesome if they carried captive bred hermit crabs in their store?
@@CrabCentralStation Aw yeah, someday! That's a great future goal!
@@CrabCentralStation yes!
Way to go!! Thank you for your efforts for these little guys 💝
You’re welcome! It is truly an honor. These guys are some of the cutest beans ever 😊
That is amazing! How amazing would it be if one day all pet hermit crabs are captive bred.
More close ups please! I'd love to see some lingering close ups of both the eggs and zoea. So excited to see how this story unfolds.
Thanks for the idea! We will include more clips in the future. We may even do one full video of just Zoeae moving around if you guys would like to see that 😊
I just want to say I haven't had hermit crabs since I was a kid. Back then the going thing was Hermits do not bred in captivity. So it is wonderful to see this. I don't have crabs but if they're breeding their happy. I'm so relieved that crabs all over the world are getting better care etc. You're beautiful 😍
Awe! What a sweet and encouraging comment! Thank you so much! I know this was a long time ago (during breeding season, we were so busy!). I appreciate your kindness and open acknowledgment of what we are doing. It's been a long hard road, and we are still learning and have a long way to go..... but we ARE doing it! We are making history! WHooHOO!
So interesting!! Great luck to you in getting these babies to land. EXCITING 😄❤
Yay! Thanks so much for enjoying this video and for the luck. We seriously need it 😂
You’re awesome!
@@CrabCentralStation Thank you. Ya'll are the AWESOME ones for trying this❤
I just listened to your podcast on the animals at home! I so admire you guys for everything you do!
Thanks so much for listening! I’m so glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the support 😊
This is so cool! Captive bred hermit crab!!
RIGHT??!!! Seriously, did we ever think we would get here????? Making history, one spawn at a time!
I love your channel you help me learn so much about my hermits! ❤ I have a question! What type of hermit crab is she? I currently have 2 purple pinchers!
i just got a hermit crap a month ago and its a boy! your videos are awsome
Try turning the air stone off and filling the jar to just below the rim. Let it sit for just a few minutes to settle. Then slowly lower the jar into your larger tank as not to stir up sediment. The babies can swim out into the larger container but the sediment will stay in the jar.
Incredible congratulations keep all the data and the videos can change your life and people life breeding hermit crabs whoa congratulations again
I'm so excited for you guys! I hope you can get these to land!
Thanks so much for supporting us! We are so looking forward to seeing if these guys make it too.
Still not actually sure how all this works, but you're doing great!
We will have to do another video explaining! In the meantime, if you have any questions feel free to ask. And thanks so much for the encouragement 😊
Came here from the Animals at Home podcast. Came just in time for breeding attempt number 3. Here's hoping a few make it!
Awesome! Welcome to Crab Central Station! We're so glad you joined our #CrabCrew! It's getting pretty exciting here as breeding season is just getting started. A couple exciting announcements coming soon 🥰
Ahhh oh my stars I love babies *cries* I'm getting my hermit crab soon for my Birthday in June ^^ Idk what species I want I'm thinking Purple Pincher
That’s exciting! Keep doing all the research you can now. We have so many care videos on our channel. Purple pinchers are very hardy and would be a great species to start with. You can get captive bred PP’s from Josh’s Frogs online!
Love your Channel Darcy! You and the girls are doing a fantastic job!!!! I think you should add sugar gliders to your menagerie!!! We have to rehome 😞 ours and need a home where we KNOW they will be taken care of. I would be willing to drive them down with all their supplies!!! Either way, off topic, LOVE your channel! I don’t even have a crabbie and like to watch!!! Your habitats are amazing! xo
Thank you so much, Brooke Pitt! Oh man, so sad you are having to rehome your sugars! I would love to take them, but I know nothing about them.... not to mention I'm up to my eyeballs in hermit crabs at the moment! 🤣😂😅
Also congratulations! And great work!
Thank you 😊
I loved it!! You are incredible!!! 💕
Thanks so much for enjoying this video!
I breed betta fish and I use a small brine shrimp net to catch to drain the container and gentle net them into the correct container
The zoea will go right through that net ... they are super tiny!
you could probably make a specialized pooter with a large reservoir and suck them in with aquarium tubing. a pooter uses your breath to suck in small critters, generally a terrestrial insect collection method. that way you could vacuum them all up quickly then just empty the reservoir into the zoea tank
We use something similar, called a siphon. Without that, this would not be possible.
This is so cool to see and lurn how you bread the little one's, I can not wate to see how this all works out.
Thank you so much for the support! We hope everyone can gain some new insights from these breeding videos. It will help us too, to look back and see what we did each year. 😊
@@CrabCentralStation You are welcome 😊 I sent a long DM to you on Facebook messager just to let you know.
When you say iso I’m thinking of rubbing alcohol not an isolation tank.
Sorry about that! Maybe you work in the medical field?
How do you get your hermit crabs to breed I've been trying for so long but no luck😢
Multitaskers galore!!
Like a teacher!
Question: what happens if those babies reaches juvenile stage and there aren't any shells around?
This is sooo cool.
Can we talk about how PRETTY her eyes are!!!
You can add Hermit Crab Doula to your title now!
Definitely… we are for sure the CCS Crab Doulas now 😂
Yay new vid!
Yay! It's getting very exciting here!
Does the tank require aeration for the eggs to hatch?
Yes! We have bubblers in the birthing suite, all of our pools and major water movement/aeration in the krisel.
I like how you have labuy and good night song in with your train sound
Yay! Thank you. I had fun picking out the music too. I thought we could do for a fun intro for this series. Glad you enjoy it too ❤️
@@CrabCentralStation You are welcome 😊
Wow amazing
Thanks a lot 😊
Gosh I wish I had found your channel just two days earlier. I have a hermit crab who I just got and she laid a bunch of eggs while she was still being quarantined. I know absolutely nothing about taking care of eggs or keeping them alive so I just put them in salt water because that was the first thing I found on Google. They actually did spawn, but I think they all died. I don't really know what's normal and what isn't though. I wish I had found this sooner, also do the zoeae move as soon as they've hatched?
Yes! They move as soon as they’re hatched
@@CrabCentralStation Ok, thank you!
Do they only spawn in saltwater vs. fresh? And what temperature do the babies' water need to be kept at?
They only spawn in a specific salinity of salt water and the temperature depends on the species. Around 78-85 degrees if I remember right, it’s been a while…
Now that I think of it, a few year's ago I remember one of my hermit crabs having eggs, buy i did not know then what to do at the time, if this dose happen again I will message you because I do not have the stuff for breading and all.
How cool that you have had eggs before! It means you have some super happy crabbies!
@@CrabCentralStation Thank you, that was a few years ago, but i am not sure what happen to them because i did not see any eggs laying around at all.
@@doctordeath.5716 if they don't spawn the eggs in the water pools, they will drop them on the sand. At that point they become a great protien snack for the crabs.
@@CrabCentralStation oh ok, thank you for your help
Congratulations
Thanks 😊
wait so ALL of those little things (idk what they are called) are gonna be crabs?!? what will you do with them?
Most of them won’t survive sadly. It’s very very hard to get these guys to land because they’re so small and fragile. If we get enough to land, we will adopt them out to forever homes 😊
@@CrabCentralStation ooo super cool! seems like a difficult job to do, but you guys are great and patient. hopefully lots will survive🤞
Thanks, Bean!
We have hermit crabs to
Hello! I was wondering how many babies does a hermit crab actually have?? I have done some research and it said more than 800 and I couldn’t believe it! If so many were to be born, would I give them to a local pet store and they would accept them?
Most species have 10,000-20,000 babies. The survival rate is quite small though. For example - I had about 15,000 and only got 35 to land. It is very difficult to accomplish.
I can’t believe my purple pincher spawned in the pool but I didn’t know they had eggs because they disappeared
Are your pools filtered? If so, the filter sucked up the babies.
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I am so sad 😭 I went to a store yesterday and saw baby crabs in a cage. They were no bigger then a dime maby smaller.it broke me heart and I can’t stop thinking about it.is there any thing you can do. 😭😢
Man, I looked for over a year to find crabs that small. The beach shop I used to go to get them tiny like that stopped selling when the pandemic hit.
If you want to know where they’re located I can tell you
3D Finley, the best thing to do with store crabs is to lovingly offer care advice to the shop keepers... maybe just tell them about our channel. Then, as hard as it is, don't buy them. Every time someone buys a hermit crab, it continues thencycle to capture more.
You can adopt tiny captive bred babies! Go to our website and click on the adoption button to fill out an application.
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Amazing
Thank you!
I'm no crab expert, but couldn't you use a coffee filter to switch them into the new tank?? Just a thought
I'm curious why not just pour the jar in the Chrysler tank
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I may be missing something, but why not gently pour the jar full into the krysel?
Water quality is very important to the survival. The dirty water lowers the water quality. We have to do 2-3 water changes a day so that we can remove the access food, poop, and sheds.
@@CrabCentralStation wouldnt the sand/food particles be more like normal ocean water than the crystal clean water?
Yes, but the ocean is vast and includes a ecosystem the works to keep the water quality in balance. In a closed system, water quality is a huge challenge. The krisiels are not filtered, because the filter would just such up the babies. So, we have to be very diligent in monitoring and keeping good water quality.
O no my baby hermit crab climbing wall has mold all on what do I do :(
If it is seagrass, this is a common issue. For us, we soak it in hermit crab saltwater and then air dry. The best thing to do in the tank is keep it off the substrate and away from the pools.
Can I use fresh water?
Yes, that is safe. Saltwater has just shown to help keep the mold away.
If my crabs have babies, what should I do with the eggs? I can’t have hundreds of crabs, so what would I do?
From my understanding based on my own research, unless you have an extremely specific environment and are putting the extra attention and work into it (like she does in this video) then the chances of it happening are slim to none. So you probably don’t have to worry about it being an issue. However, on the off chance it does happen, I’m sure you could go to hermit crab forums and find ppl.
Lots of people have hermit crabs that produce eggs. That’s the easy part. The hard part is raising the Zoeae. If you have the proper tank set up, and healthy crabs. They usually mate. 😊
@@CrabCentralStation if my crabs ever mate, should I give them to someone like you?
what do you do if it happens to ourselves.like if our hermits breed
In this case you just toss the babies outside. It’s sad yes, but we know not everyone can raise them! If they lay on the sand, the crabs will eat them.
so can people adopt crabs from you guys?
Not specifically these babies, but just in general?
I've been looking all over for different species to adopt and there is just virtually nowhere reliable to go to (besides of course the pet stores). I've specifically been on a mad hunt for some strawberries with no luck :
We don't have any Strawberries for adoption. We hope to being some to land this next summer.
@@CrabCentralStation so you'll possibly have some strawberries for adoption next summer then?
@@BenRusk11 if we get some to land we will have to raise them for a year. So they wouldn't be available for adoption until summer of 2023.
@@CrabCentralStation and that's still probably sooner than any other retailer online LOL
Well.... cross your fingers and send all your good vibes this summer that we can get some to land!
Are these adoptable anywhere?
When they are older of course.
If we get them to land, they will be adoptable anywhere in the U.S.
I’m semi early!!!
Yay!
Yes!! We are so excited!
Omg yay!
That's what we said!! 🥰
Use a turkey baistor...
We actually do 😆
The babies are so small!
They really are so tiny!
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Awesome!