Who really is Angel?

This is me, Angel! I'm the creater of AngelHasCrabs.com Yes, many of my friends consider me having hermies to be a bit of a weird hobby considering that I'm 29 years old, but hey, its ok to have a little bit of "kid at heart", right? I hope you all enjoy this website. I have not posted any new pictures for awhile and people keep yelling at me about it. I did upload a few new ones today. Please remember, I am not a hermit crab expert and any hermie advice that I may give are things that have worked for me personally. Thank you for visiting my page!

No Super Bowl for the Bills?

This guy is sad that the Buffalo Bills are not going to make it to the Super Bowl this year.

Climbing = Exercise

Driftwood makes for great hermie climbing tools!

Crabitat Setup October 2008

Fruit, yay!

Oh.... my hermies just LOVE banana and grape slices!

Crabitat Setup May 2007

This is a picture of my crabitat setup in May 2007! (The lid is off my tank for the purpose of taking this picture only.)

Crabitat Setup November 2007

This is just a picture of my crabitat setup in November 2007!

Baby Bongo!

This is Baby Bongo! I adopted him from my two friends, Kasey & Jules (sisters), in October 2007. Bongo is very happy in his new paradise! Thank you Kasey & Jules!

Crabitat Setup October 2007

Just a picture of my crabitat setup in October 2007!

Sunbathing!

This is just a picture of Beans sunbathing!

How many crabs do I have???

Some people ask me how many crabs that I have. As of today (5/9/07) I have 12 crabs. Most of their pictures are posted here, and some have gone to crab heaven. You can pretty much guess by their names if they are male or female. The names of my current crabs are as follows: Beans, Hillary, Stewart (actually female), Miss Jinx, Brownie, Lemon Drop Martini, Gladys Knight, USA, Brain, Beast Master, Heart and Cinnomin. Beans is the meanest and Stewart is the friendliest.

Water Sac?

Yes!!!! That ugly gray bulging thing you see hanging out of Miss Jinx's shell is called a "water sac". Hermies fill up on water prior to molting (shedding their skin). You you see pictures of a molt as you scroll down. I was fortunate enough to snap this picture just in time!

That smells weird!

Our cat Pinky smells Beast Master and says..... "Yepp, thats a hermie alright!"

Hide-n-Seek!

Special Ed is so small he can hide in a large shell!

Guarding!

When we are not home, our cat Nacho sits guard and watches over his shell-covered brothers and sisters..... weird, isn't it?

Crabsitting

Our cat Nacho is crabsitting the hermies as they dry off after having a bath. He is very proud of them!

Cool as a cucumber!!!!!!!!

Lemon Drip Martini LOVES fresh cucumber slices!!!!

Sexy..........

Beans shows off his sexiness........

Miss Jinx

This is Miss Jinx. I bought her on 4/27/07. She had a crooked eye... but I still love her!!!!

Beast Master

This is Beast Master. I bought him 4/37/07. He is the largest crab that I have owned.... he is considered a "JUMBO" hermit crab!

Brain!

This is Brain. I bought him 4/27/07

Renovation

Here is a renovation done to my crabitat in late April 2007.

Easter 2007

Easter Parade and Egg Hunt... Easter 2007!

Special Ed

This is Special Ed. He is somewhat slow....

Lemon Drop Martini

This is Lemon Drop Martini.

Stewart

This is Stewart.

Cinnomin

This is Cinnomin.

No Name?

This is No Name. He has no name....

Hippy Harry

This is Hippy Harry.

Bluey

This is Bluey.

Hillary

This is Hillary.

Mmmmm FOOD!

These are some of the foods that I give to my crabs.

Crabitat Products

These are the products I use in my crabitat.

Bath Time!

The hermies getting their bi-weekly bath! Ooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh, yeah.. that feels good!

Crab Tuba!

"Sometimes if I sit just right, it makes me look like a crab tuba. This is the only way I have an excuse to "play with myself"! Heh...... (ok, that was bad.) 

Mentally Challenged!

We will deem this one little Mentally Challenged Crab. I was dumping sand out of the large shells one night when I found a small crab in one of the BIGGEST shells in the tank. Its obvious that this crabs brain is much smaller than previously anticipated. It was pretty funny though to see such a small crab trying to lug around this huge shell. I mean, it was so much bigger than him that he couldnt even stick his eyes out of it to see! He couldnt even walk about with it on! I got a picture just in time before he changed into a small shell as you will see below.

The need for change.....

"Now I dont feel so mentally challenged!.... this looks much better!!!! Ahh... yes!!!!" Finally.... little Mentally Challenged Crab changed into something "more comfortable".

Home, Shell Home!

"Hmmm... this looks like a nice new shell!" 

Caught in the act!!!

Here you can see this hermit crab in the middle of changing shells! I was lucky enough to have grabbed my camera in time. 

Isolation can be so lonely....

Here is Beans in his isolation tank. After molting hermit crabs are very soft and squishy and vulnerable to becoming a snack to fellow co-crab-itators. He will be left in isolation until he finishes eating his molted skin which hermit crabs do to regain nutrients after the tiring process. 

Molt Fever!

Beans molted again on October 14, 2006. He last molted in March 2006. I bet that molting feels good for crabs...... 

Does size really matter?

In the game of love...... (at least this kind).... size really doesn't matter...... 

Pretty is as pretty does....

In the wild you obviously would never see a hermit crab with pretty colored and decorated shells like the ones you can buy in the petstores. This would make them more attractive to prey that want to make a good meal out of them. Hermit crabs occupy vacant sea snail shells in the wild. I have even read that hermit crabs are so desperate for a protective shell that if they can't find an ordinary shell, they have been known to curl themselves into pop bottle caps!!!! 

Is it a boy or a girl????

Yes, this is a dead crab... but for the sake of science and curiosity I just HAD to post this picture! How do you identify a boy crab from a girl crab? No, there are no boobs or extroverted appendages involved to help you out either! As you can see from this picture, the third set of legs on this crab ... as they attach at the abdomen there are two small holes... thus, making this a female! (girl power!) When the crabs do not have these distinct holes/markings, it is a male. Don't you feel just a little bit better now that you know how to identify the sex of a hermit crab?