Captive Land Hermit Crab Breeding — Preserved

The Hermit Crab Breeding Archive preserves the work of hobbyists who have attempted and achieved captive breeding of land hermit crabs. These records document the methods, observations, successes, and failures that helped advance our understanding of breeding Coenobita in captivity.

Many of these projects were originally documented on personal websites, blogs, forums, and social media that have since disappeared. This archive exists so that work is not lost.

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Preserving the Record

Captive breeding knowledge has been built project by project, often by individual hobbyists working independently across the world. Some documented their work extensively; others left behind only fragments. The archive preserves both.

Mary Akers

Founder of the Hermit House Captive Breeding Project, with documented breeding work spanning multiple years and hundreds of captive-bred juveniles.

Danys

An early Coenobita clypeatus breeder whose original website has disappeared. The archive preserves an English account of her breeding work and links to surviving copies of her site in the Internet Archive.

C聖

A breeder in Taiwan whose documented work began in 2008 and includes successful captive breeding of multiple Coenobita species, including C. perlatus, C. rugosus, C. brevimanus, C. purpureus, and C. clypeatus.

Help Preserve the History

Captive breeding work is still being documented, and older records continue to surface. If you have attempted to breed land hermit crabs in captivity—or have photographs, notes, websites, journals, or other documentation from a breeding project—we would like to know about it.

You do not need to have successfully raised juveniles to land for your work to be relevant. Documented attempts can provide valuable historical information and help preserve the development of captive breeding knowledge.