Newly hatched hermit crab babies

[abb1y1]

How do you know if they are a boy or a girl??

[spinfaKtorX]

@abb1y1 they half 2 b all the way out of their shell

[QQjesus]

Those arnt crab babies, they are crab people

[Duec123]

So,if my land hermit crabs that I purchased yesterday do breed,will I need a seperate tank with salt water to have them hatch?

-I need to know soon,just incase.

[RhysonXbox]

why did they only live for eighteen days?

[Swaggerboy333]

I agree person before me

[Typhalanium]

Those aren't Hermit Crabs, silly~

Those are insects called MOSQUITOES.

D'ohhh~

You're so funny~

[piperlourion007]

lol so cute



[derekkmaddenn]

no longer hermits, now they are mingling crabs

[kcatromero]

Cool how did you get them. It's almost impossible to breed them in captivity

I've been trying fir almost six years

[clarence0100]

Aww!! i wonder how we could make them live longer in captivity while they are in the "baby stage".... so ones they all grow we could send them back to where they rly live :]

[jellydee123]

I should go bed now.

[spartan12374]

i always wondered what they were on the beach

[eggie947]

Kewl

[LoZfanguy]

YAY NIGHTMARE FUEL!

[Gurizin]

qt pai

[madisonwanstrath923]

Those are taadpoles!

[greenbean9785]

damnnn i went from watching drakes new song the motto to watching this.... i officially have no life

[johnnyfisalive]

do they lay eggs or do the crab birth them in the water?

[Phantom451208]

So what do giant hermit crab babies look like? 'Cause I caught a pair of giant hermit crabs a few months ago, spiky shell which was about a foot big. I let them go a few days later

[Evanpan17]

they look more like guppies than newly hatched hermit crabs

[coxbrea151]

WOW! That's the first time i've seen zoea before! Your hermit crabs must be very happy to try to reproduce Moa!

[Makzimiser]

that's what my poop looks like after eating McDonald's

[ryanhocstetler]

ORLY?!?!

[ohiosportsfan]

looks more like flys to meh

[china22605]

There fuckin microscopic u idiot

[thefunkz]

@china22605 First of all, it's "they're." Secondly, if they were microscopic, how the fuck can we see it on youtube.

google definition: microscopic.

dumb chink.

[MoaBaloa]

@OhMGeeFrogblast They are definitely hermit crab babies. All hermit crabs live the first time of their life as plankton in the ocean, as zoea, as that stage of their life are called.

In the video description, I've posted a link to a thread with pictures of the eggs, the babies and their parents.

I hope to see some more maturity from your part in the future, if you ever come across my videos again. I'm sure you can behave as an adult if you put some effort into it.

Have a nice day.

/ Moa

[sadangelj90]

@MoaBaloa

Lol just ignore the idiot... its probably some 10-13 year old who thinks they know everything... After all there are at LEAST 10 different species of hermit crabs... I doubt anyone knows everything about all of them.

Also the hermies are really cute, did you keep them and raise them? Or did they even survive... my friends crab had babies but none of the hermies survived the first 2 weeks...

[sadangelj90]

@OhMGeeFrogblast

^

and this comment goes to show why idiots and little kids shouldn't post on the internet... .-. They only make themselves look like fools and get no respect from anyone else.

[ManEatingLunchBox]

@OhMGeeFrogblast fucking LEARN to SPELL you crying shit.

[fairash32]

@ManEatingLunchBox stop being a douche bag you crying S@#%

[OhMGeeFrogblast]

@ManEatingLunchBox Its the internet. Who cares if im not taking a test you grammar Faggot.

[iToasterman]

@OhMGeeFrogblast dude. you insulted him and made your self a asshole. you fail at life

[PlopperSwim]

thought they were mosquitos at first..

[Coolguy2243987598437]

i thought they were crickets then i looked closer

[MankeysUnco]

thumbs up if u thought those were fish

[MrHoyt97]

wow you are lucky

[ashender69]

that looks like tadpoles playing tag

[Pop12646Okami]

I can't get mine to mate correctly. I had bout six in one tank, all same species. It was about six sq feet, so 1 sq foot per crab. After a couple months, I saw them trying to mate, but they didn't produce any eggs. I even have my tank half sand half water (half an inch of water) and they do fine.

[PrettyHermitCrab]

congratulations

that says a lot if you can get your hermit crabs to mate, produce young, and get the babies to live

(they are still living right?)

[Transfmrsrulz]

Just a thought for all those who have had success in hatching baby crabs, What if you creat a marine tank nursey. I'm thinking that, in the wild, crab larvae live in the ocean with stong currents, so maybe they need currents and oxygen created by the currents. Or maybe there is something elses in the ocean they need that can be recreated with an aged marine tank.

[Tango5478]

haha looks like mosquitoes haha

[biebergirl890]

lair those r not hermit crabs

[MoaBaloa]

It's very unusual for hermit crabs to mate and produce eggs in captivity, so this was really an amazing experience. :) I found the babies in the adults large salt water bowl, where the female had walked down in the night to hatch the babies. I managed to keep some of the babies alive for 18 days, which is a very good result. ^^ Who can dislike something like this? It's just fantastic, and it was the best confirmation I could ever get from my hermit crabs that they are doing great in my care. :)

[GoldenFatriver]

@MoaBaloa 18 days? thats pretty awesome imo. what did you feed them (artemia- anuplia?) and whrere did you keep them?

[MoaBaloa]

@GoldenFatriver Yes, some of them where alive for 18 days. Not many of course, but the last ones died on the eighteenth day. :) I fed them both spirulina, phytoplankton and artemia nauplii, and kept them in small plastic jars. I changed their water about four-five times a day, and worked really hard to keep them alive, so I was pretty sad when they didn't. :S

I've posted a lot of pictures and such on Hermit Crab Association (HCA), so everyone can read about it and look at the pictures. :)

[sKratch1337]

@MoaBaloa Do you have any idea what might've killed them? That just sounds strange, lol...

[sweetapplepie20]

@MoaBaloa no near beach??? if u have one u should had released them there.

[shadypyro415]

@MoaBaloa 18 days so they all died in 18 days how long do they usually live?

[MoaBaloa]

@bfblll Yes, newly hatched hermit crab _babies_. ;) They don't look like hermit crabs in that age, since they live in the ocean the first stages of their lives, and they're very tiny. :)

[farfinmosker]

Awesome! :)