Hermit Crab Questions

O.K. so I have 3 hermit crabs and I want to breed them can anyone help me!

OK and my hermit crab (a very tiny hermit crab)it molted I checked with the store and they say he molted but I can't find the real crab.

Hi, I have 3 small hermit crabs and I want to know if all hermit crabs can live in saltwater because I want to breed them and they need to be in salt water to hatch eggs.
please help me
from, caroline

 

Re: A few stupid questions

here is the information I found on Hermit Crabs. I do not know much about them as they seem to be a saltwater invertebrate and I do not have a saltwater tank so I am moving this to a saltwater thread.


https://www.fishlore.com/Profiles-HermitCrab.htm

Rose

 

I haven't really read through these sites, but thought they might be helpful:

https://www.hermit-crabs.com/

http://users.tpg.com.au/users/vanessap/hermit/cs/cs_gender.html

 

is it a mystery? we will never know

 

I don't know about marine hermit crabs but I'm guessing they're just like land hermit crabs in breeding habits - dang hard to breed and then, the babies won't survive because they have a stage where they are tinytinytiny (plankton-ish) and they need a HUGE amount of water (as in: ocean) to survive. I suppose its possible that marine crabs are different, but I'm guessing - no babies from breeding them.

 

Well I read through most of https://www.hermit-crabs.com/ from Gunnie's suggestion... that has A LOT of info (especially the FAQ's) that is very helpful.