Most of the hermit crabs sold as pets in the US are purple pincher crabs or Ecuadorian hermit crabs. Purple pinchers are native to the Caribbean, South America, and the Florida Keys, while the ...

In the words of Big Fat Crabber on TikTok, “Hermit crabs are a long-term commitment.” She owns six purple pincher hermit crabs and knows about their care and feeding. A comparison helps us ...

It's a summer tradition in many beach and boardwalk towns: you buy the kids a hermit crab in a brightly ... hobbyists also provide for the usual purple pincher that's sold in pet stores and ...

Huelsenbeck and his wife, Martha, annually import an estimated 200,000 Caribbean hermit crabs (known also as “Purple Pinchers” for the color of their claws, or by their scientific name ...