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Our crabby friends in Indonesia were featured on National TV sharing knowledge of hermit crabs. Rizky Perdana Chandra Putranto provides highlights as the video does not include English captions. Kelomang Lovers Indonesia on national TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwRIrH1K050 Video highlights 0:40 Narrator intro to hermit crabs, general and detailed info on biology. 3:15 Narrator on how people are usually exposed to hermit crabs as pets and intro to Kelomang Lovers Indonesia. 4:20 KLI Admin and Co-founder Daniel Roberto Soemarno on history of KLI. 5:05 Narrator on KLI’s motivation and purpose (education and conservation). 5:24 What Daniel, Felix J. Wang want people to see hermit crabs as : exotic animals and shouldRead More →

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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. Jon passed away February 2021, 45 1/2 years together. Jon, Kate and Carol will always be an inspiration to the LHCOS community. 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 theirRead More →

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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 →