| You've made the exciting decision to adopt your very own hermit crabs! The friendship you are about to develop will be rewarding and long lasting if you follow the simple instructions (included) for caring for your new friends. Proper feeding and care habits will ensure that your hermit crabs will live long and healthy lives and that your experience will be both fun and educational. But first, you'll need a little background about hermit crabs.
Taino is a language spoken by a a group of people who live in the Caribbean. That is where hermit crabs come from: warm, humid, tropical areas of the Caribbean, South America, and Florida. The native people of the places where they live called hermit crabs "tree crabs," the "purple pincer land hermit crab," or "soldier crabs." They were called "soldier crabs" because people in the Caribbean tell stories about hermit crab migrations saving them from enemies. Invaders would come to take over the islands, and they would hear so much noise from all the chirping movement by thousands of hermit crabs on the beaches that they were actually frightened away.
A hermit crab's life is mobile. As a baby, it finds an empty mollusk shell to call home. As it grows, it leaves its shell behind and finds a larger, ore comfortable one to move into. It does this many times during its life. |
