The Land Hermit Crab Owners Society started as Hermies Onelist – a mailing list for fans of Vanessa’s Crabarium website which started in 1995. It soon became an online society for hermit crab lovers around the world. Hermies Onelist soon became a Yahoo!Group in August 1999 and included features such as chat, databases, files and polls.
Notable crabbers Vanessa Pike-Russell, Don Drenning (Crablover Don), Jennifer Borgesen (Motown Jenn), Carol Ormes (Crabworks), Karen Rogers (kish_29730), Marie Davis (Ladybug15057) and Stacy Griffith (Forever Purple) kept busy moderating the group.
In July 2000 several Hermies members gathered together for the first time!
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Since 2001 the LHCOS has produced an online magazine called The Crab Street Journal, a name voted on by LHCOS members. It includes Caresheets, Coenobita Species, Emergency Help, a Forum (Chewin’ the Choya), Newbies Guide and more.
In 2006-2008 we offered printed magazines, one of which was used in the movie Girl Most Likely.
April 2015 Vanessa Pike-Russell created a Facebook group for LHCOS which has grown to a large, thriving community. You can join the group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/landhermitcrabowners/
You can visit our society Yahoo! Group at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/hermies/info and The Crab Street Journal magazine http://www.crabsteetjournal.org
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