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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 Crab Street Journal is a creation of the Land Hermit Crab Owners Society. This online community for land hermit crab owners was established in 1999 as Yahoo! Group and has continued to grow and expand. Our focus is providing free access to accurate and current care information for pet land hermit crabs. Our site is accessible to all without a need for registration but to interact with other members, you must create a free account. The Crab Street Journal is the flagship site for the Land Hermit Crab Owners Society and is a resource library for land hermit crab care. The Crab Street MarketRead More →

2020 year on the sea shore during sunset.

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This past year the negative impact of plastic waste on our oceans has become painfully clear. LHCOS hopes to lead our community in finding alternatives to single use plastic in our hobby. Conservation of wild populations is part of the LHCOS mission. In the coming months we hope the community will be able to replace the use of plastics with more eco friendly alternatives. The Crab Street Journal will be begin moving away from single use plastic bags over the coming year.  What can you do to help us reduce our use of plastic??   Plastic pollution has killed half a million hermit crabs, studyRead More →