Hermit Crab Care - Advice from Expert

We discuss hermit crab care including answering: How to set up a hermit crab tank. What do hermit crabs eat? How do hermit crabs have babies? How do hermit crabs change shells and much more!

Darcy Madsen operates the YouTube Channel, Crab Central Station along with her daughters. Crab Central Station is focused on promoting ethical keeping and captive breeding of land hermit crabs. Hermit crabs are easily one of the most abused animals in the specialty pet industry.  In the episode, Darcy explains how they are mistreated, how to care for them properly and she also details their incredible experience attempting the impossible, producing captive-bred hermit crabs!

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0:00 Coming Up
1:22 Guest Introduction
4:00 Housekeeping
5:10 Welcome Darcy
5:57 What got you started keeping crabs?
9:16 When Did you realize something was wrong?
10:58 How Are Crabs Abused?
24:50 Finding the Proper Info
27:45 Amazing Enclosure & Basic Care!
44:03 What do hermit crabs eat?
45:23 Maintaining Temps & Molting
46:49 How do Hermit Crabs Change their Shells?
52:18 How do Hermit Crabs have Babies?
1:25:15 Why Start Crab Central Station
1:31:55 Closing Thoughts
1:34:33 Outro

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“Hermit Crabs” by Rex Roofis Licensed under CC BY 2.0/ Cropped from original
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“Hermit Crab” by Jessica Diamond Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0/ Cropped from original
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“HERMIT CRAB MOBILE KIT” by Mighty June Licensed under CC BY 2.0/ Cropped from original
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“Spidey Hermit Crab Shells” by Steven Saus Licensed under CC BY 2.0/ Cropped from original
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“Little Hermit Crab” by Nikki Tysoe Licensed under CC BY 2.0/ Cropped from original
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ABOUT DILLON:
Welcome to my channel, Animals at Home! Here you will find the reptile videos I have made as well as video versions of The Animals at Home Podcast! The podcast mainly focuses on the pet reptile industry. My mission with Animals at Home is simple: To inspire others to push the limits of their reptile husbandry by promoting the importance of high-level, creative husbandry individualized for each reptile.

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DISCLAIMER:
Try this at your own risk! I take full responsibility for the safety of this setup for myself but cannot recommend anyone copy what I have done unless you are willing to do the same.