what is the the longest youve owned a crab?

[crabcrazygal]

just wondering what is the longest time you have owned a crab for, and what was its species,size when bought,number of moults, number of known shell changes, and name?

ive had hyper for nearly a year (ten days till year anniversary)
he is a tiny/small australian species (dont know proper name)
no moults or shell changes yet, but i am suspecting that he is about to moult

[emmac350]

I've had both Rack and Benny (small purple pinchers) for 10 months. They've had at least 2 molts since I got them.

[ladybug15057]

The longest we have had hermies here (the same ones) is 9+ years. Passed our 9 year anniversary on June 17th. (Began June 17th, 2000) To sit and go through our notebooks on shell changes, molts, etc. would take quite a bit of time...

[HermitOrCrabs]

I dont really have lot to say. Im lucky enough though to have had my hermit 1 or my hermit crabs for 3 years, 2 for 2 years, and 4 for 3 weeks. So for some, not much to say.

[CrabbyJo]

6 months here. Shell changes? Hah! PP's change quite a bit, E's don't like to change much at all. I have two small E's still in the same shells (not sure, I haven't seen them in weeks!) I got them in, but all my PPs and my two medium E's have changed shells. I gave up trying to count how many shell changes with whom.

[crabcrazygal]

hmmm ive only ever had homer/marge (found out he was a girl when he....she died, so i renamed her) chang shells, and she did it about 5 times.

[spidtat]

The longest I have is currently 2 years just recently. The majority over a year and a handful, Straws, about 6 months. I recently just added 7 exotics though a couple of weeks ago.

[crabcrazygal]

yay its been exactly a year since i bourght hyper,and year aniversary of owning crabs

[hermit crab101]

my hermit crabs lived up to a year. but my biggest one ate the smaller ones.so sad

[crabcrazygal]

wow ive never heard of a larger crab eating smaller ones!