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A message from FJ Ong Pramono Dear hermit crab enthusiasts,Following a discussion with Stacy Griffith, I decide to make this post. As an Indonesian hermit crab enthusiast and researcher, I want to make you aware that some fellow Indonesians join many different Land Hermit Crab care groups only for the sake of searching new information – e.g. about new species – but mainly to make SALES! Poachers have many tactics. Just this week, poachers were caught with 998 Coenobita purpureus (Blueberry hermit crabs,) which are a protected species. Legal Risks of Accepting an Illegally Imported Shipment of Live Hermit Crabs in the U.S. Importing liveRead More →

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Coenobita Curiosities (CC) is one of the first vendors to offer enrichment items for hermit crabs. CC has been creating hand crafted items for hermits since 2020, and became a LHCOS approved seller a few months later. The shop started after Dan and Samantha began posting pictures of their crabitats online. People’s comments were positive and many people were interested in purchasing our products. Coenobita Curiosities was originally going to be a pop up shop at Crab Con 2020. Unfortunately the world put a nix on that plan. In order to get their products out to the world, their shop on Etsy was created. CoenobitaRead More →