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🐚✨ Introducing the Land Hermit Crab Owners Society 2024 Hermit Crab Calendar! 📅🦀 Get ready to shell-ebrate the beauty of these amazing creatures with our collection of winning photos from our monthly contests! 🌟 Adorable hermit crab moments each month brings you closer to these fascinating little friends. But it’s not just a calendar; it’s a chance to support a cause you love! 🌊🌍 Every purchase goes toward fundraising efforts to help care for hermit crabs and their habitats. Your support means the world to us and our little friends! 👉 Grab your calendar today and dive into a year of hermit crab beauty whileRead More →

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news release

FOR RELEASE AT 9:00 A.M.

MARCH 1, 2023

LHCOS supports Illinois legislation to ban painted hermit crab shells

Painted shells are inhumane, unnecessary and destroy needed natural resource

WAYNE CITY, ILL., MARCH 1, 2023 — The Land Hermit Crab Owner’s Society supports Illinois House Bill HB3257 sponsored by Illinois House of Representative Robert Rita. Painted shells for hermit crabs are inhumane, unnecessary and destroy a much-needed natural resource. This type of animal abuse should be illegal, not just in Illinois but worldwide.Read More →

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Much of the US is facing dangerous winter weather. Many people will lose power. Find out what you should do to protect your hermit crabs if the power goes out in this video. Read more at CSJ- https://crabstreetjournal.org/blog/2012/10/16/faq-how-can-i-keep-my-tank-warm-during-a-power-outage/Read More →

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The LHCOS Board of Directors would like address a recent Facebook post that circulated, which included what appeared to be a public “banned shops” list associated with LHCOS. That post was shared in error by a well-meaning volunteer and has since been removed. We want to offer some clarity. The list was part of an outdated internal reference file that should have been archived a long time ago. It was never intended for public release. The word “banned” is also not really accurate to what the list was for. While the shops listed had, at some point, been flagged for issues that conflicted with LHCOSRead More →

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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 →