Aggression

  Aggressive Behaviour Land hermit crabs are territorial animals, and as such they will often act aggressively towards one another to establish a ‘pecking’ order among their colony. Sometimes this can be in the form of ‘feeler’ or antennae fights, others in violent pushing or flicking fellow tank mates out of the way. Usually this…

Lost Limbs

What is Autotomy?   Comes from the latin words autos for “self” and tomos for “cut Autotomy can be described as self-cutting, Websters dictionary describes autotomy as a “reflex separation of a part (as an appendage) from the body: division of the body into two or more pieces.” Hermit Crabs can autotomize (drop) and regenerate…

Croaking

Photo supplied by Carol Ormes If you have heard it, you would think that it sounds like something between a frog croak’s, a chicken’s clucking and something else thrown in for good measure. In case you haven’t heard it before, there is now a site dedicated to the sound files of Carol of CrabWorks’s hermit crab croaking .…

Are You Ready for a Land Hermit Crab?

ARE YOU READY FOR A LAND HERMIT CRAB?   Australian Land Hermit Crab Care Guide   THE BIG PICTURE Caring for a land hermit crab is more than just food and salt. The initial set up for a land hermit crab can include much more than you previously thought. The good news is that there…

About

VANESSA PIKE-RUSSELL LAND HERMIT CRAB OWNERS SOCIETY AND CRABSTREET JOURNAL FOUNDER HI! My name is Vanessa Pike-Russell. I am an Australian hermit crab owner from Brisbane, Queensland Australia, originally from Wollongong, south of Sydney New South Wales, Australia.   I started caring for land hermit crabs whilst studying towards my Bachelor of Education at the…