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Carol Ann Ormes sitting on her couch with her two pet hermit crabs: Crab Kate and Jonathon Livingston Crab

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Meet Carol Ann Ormes, Crab Kate and Jonathon Livingston Crab. In August 1976 Carol purchased Kate and Jon at two different stores along a boardwalk in Maryland. Their shells were the size of the tip of her pinky. 35 years later, in 2011, Crab Kate passed away. Today Jon and Carol still live together in Miami Florida and August 2020 they will celebrate 44 years together! To learn how to properly care for your pet hermit crabs we invite you to join our Facebook Group Land Hermit Crab Owners Society. To learn more about Carol, Kate and Jon you can read their archive on ourRead More →

LHCOS Local Representative

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LHCOS is excited to introduce our latest Local Representative! Meet Rita… Hey everyone, I’m Rita.  Honored to be a member of this amazing group of hermit crab enthusiasts. I live in south Jersey with my very significant other.  We’re just miles away from the boardwalk where so many of these little guys are sold.  And yes, it’s so hard not to just go “rescue” them all…but that’s sadly not how it works. I started off as so many of us did just enamored with having hermit crabs and subsequently doing everything wrong.  Fortunately I found LHCOS…they saved my crabbies. Several months ago I became aRead More →

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 The Choya Log – A Journal for Keeping Hermit Crabs As a hermit crab owner of 15+ years I created the book I needed and I hope you will enjoy it too. Custom made pages for specifically for tracking your hermit crabs and crabitat. Over 200 pages of crabby goodness in full color. No pre filled dates allow you to start your planner any month of any year and still get a full 12 months of use. Use the monthly calendar pages to track details like daily tank temperature and humidity, who is digging or resurfaced. Week day pages allow you to document noteworthy behaviorsRead More →