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The Post Purchase Stress death cycle created by Mary Milhorn

A Change in Our Lexicon

2019-12-13
In: General
Tagged: acclimation, care, isolation, method, pods, post purchase death, post purchase stress, PPD, pps

Currently we use the blanket term PPS as a way of explaining why hermit crabs die so soon after purchase. PPS or Post Purchase Stress The use of the word stress has always bothered me as it implies a mental or emotional state of mind. Really the method is designed to reduce post purchase death due to physical stress on the hermit crab’s body due to lack of care prior to coming home with you. I also don’t like the term ‘destress’. Really it should be more like recuperate or recover. I would like to move away from using the term destress. It again impliesRead More →

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The Post Purchase Stress death cycle created by Mary Milhorn

Post Purchase Death Reduction Method

2013-02-21
In: Biology, Caresheets
Tagged: death, hermit crab, hermit crab care, method, new, post, ppds, pps, purchased, stress, sue latell

This is a (hopefully) more simplified revision of the original.  I have also created a printable calendar for tracking. Introduction: The objective of this method is to reduce the impact of physical stress by keeping the hermit crab above ground eating well and exposed to light. Both are vital to the hermit crab’s ability to recover. This is a thirty day method. While this can be accomplished in three weeks, there is no reason to rush. If you are adding new (wild caught) hermit crabs to your existing colony it is important that you do not introduce sick or contagious animals to your healthy colony.Read More →

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Comparative Example for PPDS Practices

2013-02-21
In: Biology, Caresheets, General
Tagged: example, hermit crab, hermit crab care, method, ppds, pps, practice, preventing, sue latell

written by Sue Latel March 8, 2006 Little Billy has had 3 hermit crabs since his 12 birthday. He has a 20 gallon tank housing his 3 small PP crabs. One day when he is at the store picking up some ocean salt water for his crabs, he spots a tank containing 2 poor little Ruggies that have no water except for a damp sponge, huge pellets of food that he doubts they have even attempted to eat, and no ground cover to protect them from the 100 watt heat lamp that is shining directly on them from an open tank top. Billy has been aRead More →

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My crabbing method – Marie

2013-02-21
In: General
Tagged: care, hermit crab, marie, method, molting

Marie Davis writes about moulting and her crabbing method: On June 17, 2000, we had the privilege of becoming hermie owners. My daughters received their first ones as souvenirs from somebody who had visited Ocean City, Maryland. My daughters, nor I, had any idea as to how to care for them properly. For this reason, I had gone to the library for books to read, to research on the internet, and I asked questions at pet stores. There was information on hermit crab care, and yet so much of it varied depending on which pet store we visited, which web site we were reading, orRead More →

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