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🐚 ~Welcome to the official Tumblr for Crab Central Station on YouTube 🐚 ~Follow us on our venture for advocating for Hermit Crabs!

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Hi! We’re Crab Central Station and we advocate for hermit crabs, just like these guys! We have a YouTube channel disucing how to care for Hermit Crabs to help you know how to properly care for your pet hermit crab!

Crab Central Station

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Hey guys! We just uploaded a NEW VIDEO! You won’t want to miss this one! 🦀🐚

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We just uploaded a new video! In this video we introduce to you our new Crab Crew! They are characters that we will use in our videos and they are a part of our channel branding! Let us know which one is your favorite 😊

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Spot the babies!

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🚨 Important Hermit Crab Care Update!🚨

In the past, raw honey has been seen as a “healing food” for sick or injured crabs. Through research, the Land Hermit Crab Owners Society (LHCOS) has realized that this is a misnomer and there is no such thing as a “healing food”. All safe foods for hermit crabs are beneficial and necessary for the health of your crabs.

From LHCOS Mods:

“Honey is unnecessary and can be dangerous to ill, dehydrated and stressed out crabs. Legs get stuck and are dropped. Gills get clogged up and that's how they breathe.”

We are no longer recommending you feed pure raw honey to your hermit crabs as a food source for the reasons above. It is too dangerous. This does not mean it is poisonous if eaten, but the sticky nature of honey can hurt the crab on the outside. Bee pollen can be used as a substitute for raw honey.

We have recommended people to feed raw honey in the past, but part of owning an animal is updating your methods as new research comes out. It is our job to keep you updated as well on new research and findings. Caring for animals is not linear. It is constantly changing and so we have to constantly work to improve the care we provide for our animals.

(Photo from: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:No-honey.svg)

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Did you know that Baby Captive Bred Hermit Crabs Are in need of homes? Click the link for more information!

Captive Bred Hermit Crab Adoption Application

You are not required to be a LHCOS member to adopt but you must meet the minimum standards of care observed by our organization. There is a

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We just uploaded a new video! Thanks everyone for 2,000 subscribers! We appreciate you guys so much. Click here to watch the video:

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We just uploaded a huge announcement to our YouTube channel! Go check it out:

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Estelle is enjoying her rock today!

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Here are some comments that we have received recently on our YouTube channel! You guys are the sweetest! We love every single comment we get and appreciate all of you! ❤️

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So I’ve gotten super invested in @fantasticbeastsandhowtokeepthem‘s baby hermit crabs…

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I just laughed for like five minutes at this, thank you so much

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These are some of the amazing goodies we picked up at CrabCon! Our Hermit Crabs absolutely loved all of these foods!

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Another ramble in addition to the last one, but

There are just so many cool people involved with CrabCon and I’m so excited to be able to attend and learn from them. First, the amazing women who organized this entire thing, Mary Akers (first breeder successful at large enough numbers to adopt out widely) and Stacy Griffith (runner of Crab Street Journal, Land Hermit Crab Owners Society group & has had crabs for 15+ years & done tons of work to collect scientific papers and research done on hermit crabs to inform care info).

And then we have people like Carol Ann Ormes, who has Jonathan Livingston Crab - he’s the oldest hermit crab we know of, at least 45 years old!! She’s had him for 40 years!!! She watched all the talks today & we’re going to have a session on Sunday to talk to her & see Jonathan!

The person who did the talk on reproduction is Dr. Christopher Tudge, a researcher with the American University in Washington DC, who does research on invertebrate reproduction - https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/ctudge.cfm Mary and Stacy were SO excited that he was able to participate, and even cooler, he’s very interested in the work our community is doing with captive breeding & the success that Mary has had!

And there’s going to be a talk on Sunday with someone who successfully raised hermit crabs a number of years ago and was able to get footage of zoea under a microscope for amazing views of their structure & the molting process as they move between stages!

OH and we have a person in the group who straight up has figured out something no one else has, including scientific researchers - she discovered a method to identify individual crabs, even as they change shells and go through molts! Like, that’s a major discovery that could do a lot to aid in scientific research of crabs!

Aaaaaaand there’s gonna be another panel, I think on Sunday, about how casual crab owners can collect information in a way to be useful for scientific research, so our work and observations can be helpful for science and for the future of hermit crabs!

Like AHHHHH this is just so cool??? 

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CrabCon was amazing! So much fun, absolutely a joy to attend.

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Forgot to post pics of the reorganized crabby pantry! I got a bunch of better storage containers that should help keep things fresher longer, and easier to see when I'm running low. Still deciding if I like them, but hopefully this will work long term!

The pantry is actually kind of bare right now, because I'm out of so many foods. Buuuut that won't last long because I have a MASSIVE food order from BioactiveFX coming next week. I'm ridiculously excited by how much stuff is coming - it's literally everything she sells plus some, from a special bundle offered during CrabCon. Will definitely be taking pictures!!! I have a couple other orders that came in already too, so will be grabbing pics of everything to share!

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Um?? That's the coolest collection of crabby stuff ever? And that etsy WOW that's an amazing shop. I'm always impressed with your dedication to your crabs.

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😭💜 Thank you!! They're so much fun to feed, and with animal food being a particular interest, I didn't need much excuse to start a big collection. 😂 Can't wait to see how the shelves look with everything else that's coming added!!

And YEAH I totally encourage everyone to check her out if you have crabs or invertebrates. She's an animal nutritionist (don't recall exact credentials from con intro, would have to check again when I can) and is hoping to get big enough to contend with the crappy foods sold in pet stores, the pellets and such. And she's an amazing person besides - after CrabCon she donated over $1000 to the woman who runs Crab Street Journal & LHCOS FB group, to use for their classroom donation program or whatever is needed. 💙

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Our crabs LOVE her food mixes! Absolutely recomend them!