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Petitions
Say NO to Crabinacup sold at Walmart! Such humiliation and animal cruelty against hermit crabs must not be tolerated.
Say NO to the painted shells sold in many pet stores! Hermit crabs are not toys, nor are their shells.
You can help our protest by signing the petitions and joining many other crabbers in the battle for the respect of hermit crabs.
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Welcome to Hermit Crab Paradise! We are a supportive community that aims to help owners care for their hermit crabs to the best of their ability. Need help with your hermit crabs? You may register to ask questions on our Forums and expect to receive helpful responses from other owners.
Hermit crabs are not as easy to care for as claimed by some pet stores; anyone who has researched online for hermit crab care would agree on that. The information available in the outside world is simply not easily accessible enough. Our Crab Care section aims to correct many mistakes that inexperienced owners make.
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"This is my 20L tank, you can see my newest crab Bob in this picture, 3 are hiding and 2 are under. Bob is my biggest with the shell opening of 1-1/4". Hope you like it and my introduction of Bob to all of you."
Most pet stores unknowingly support such animal cruelty by selling painted shells. Although the CNN video does not show how the hermit crabs were stripped from their original unpainted shells in the first place (0:11-0:14), keep this in mind: hermit crabs will not give up their shells unless they are tortured. Watch how the hermit crabs were forced into painted shells (0:15-0:20, 0:51-0:53). Given how the hermit crabs were handled without care as though they were non-live stock (0:37-0:40, 0:56-1:04), do you honestly think that the painters would care whether the painted shells were safe for hermit crabs or not? Your hermit crabs in painted shells probably had to go through all this abuse before they arrived in the pet store. Do you support such animal cruelty? If not, get rid of those spare painted shells from your terrarium immediately and warn your local pet store!
Recent Major Updates
Sunday 24 May 2009 Our official care sheet (available in both Australian and American versions) can now be downloaded from our website. To download the care sheet, please click here.
Friday 8 May 2009 The long-awaited Moulting section has been fully updated and rewritten and is available for public access! I am also planning to replace the "News" section with a "Reviews" section. More details about the replacement section will be posted soon.
Sunday 15 March 2009 I devoted my weekend to updating the Crab Care section and finished up to the Water section. The Storeys and Design sections will be completed once the other sections have been updated first.
WebRing
Hermit Crab Paradise is part of the Hermit Crab Lovers WebRing.
