Has anyone ever bred a hermit crab? I heard its hard, but I don't know anything about it.

No, hermit crabs lay their eggs in the ocean and when they hatch live off of plankton.

They may lay eggs, but they won't survive.

Aww, oh well, I was thinking about breeding them but now I can't.

well you can if you spend $2000000000 you have to get a huge bulding like 1000 gallons of salt water and tons of beach sand im going to do that when im older and im rich lol

me too lol

Alrighty then......

last i checked hermit crabs have never been successfully bred in captivity

oh my god oh my god...my hermit crab lay eggs in the water?? how how how???HELP!!!!

WOW! How do you know? That is impossible.

they can breed. when my mom was little she had a hermit crab and anfter like a year of having it there was a baby hermit crab in there

Well, I guess this argument is cleared up. Every reputable source on the internet says no, but one person says that their mom said when she was little it happened, so it is true. Good thing there is second person hearsay.

Agreed there has NEVER been a documented case of successful hermit crab breeding in captivity. I'm sorry but your mother must be some kind of deity because scientists can't even get them to breed in captivity.

Also if she only had one how EXACTLY were the eggs fertilised. You said she had A which is singular so I'll assume it was only one. They don't asexually reproduce.Which means it was impossible for her hermit crab to have a baby.

Er, unless it was already pregnant when it was caught and purchased ... ? Just kidding!

ok, well guys, i dont mean to say that your mom is a phoney or anything, but it is, in fact, possible that, because your mom was "a little girl," maybe her parents bought her another hermit, because i actually really want to breed my hermit crabs, but i actually do think that its quite impossible. Sorry to say.

They CAN breed, they might produce eggs, or be purchased with eggs but they need to be released into the ocean in order to mature, hatch, grow from little tiny pinhead sized floaty critters into full grown crabs.

There is only ONE documented case where someone has attempted to breed, successfully had eggs, had a specialized aquarium ( a very large one ) with marine water, wave simulations etc. However something went bad, either the PH was off or something with the system was not working and they lost all of the little pinhead babies.

All hermit crabs are wild caught, they're not bred in massive amounts in some factory somewhere. It would be nice, it's a shame that the pet industry is taking a vital scavanger from its natural environment.

Breeding is considered the successful production of offspring. Producing eggs is not breeding the one case came close but as you mentioned failed so my point still stands.

No one in their HOUSE is breeding hermit crabs.