Episode 22: Ryan Kramer has hermit crabs

My friend Ryan is a master of investigating technological problems as well as a beautiful, efficient, brilliant designer in physical media and in the digital world. 

And he has hermit crabs. So, of course, I skipped right to that in my podcast with him here. 

They live in his house. His 6-year-old (at the time) daughter wanted them and named them (but then, of course, Ryan winds up caring for them, reluctant-sitcom-dad-style).  

“A larger pet was never going to get through the parental authorities,” Ryan says of his daughter’s winning pitch for the crustaceans. 

Ryan learned a lot from his first four hermit crabs (the enclosure was too small for all of them, unknown to him at the time).  

Join us as he explains his journey to better serve and care for his little beasts. And get Ryan’s quick checklist. 

 

WANT TO KNOW MORE? 

> Hermit crabs are in the animal order Decapoda, which literally means "10-footed,” but whose order animals can have as many as 38 appendages. “They let a lot of people into this club who aren’t necessarily 10-footed,” Ryan says. “A lot of times it just means creepy-crawly at the bottom of the sea and you’ve got lots of appendages.” Go figure. 

> Want to learn more? Check out the Hermit Crab Association or any of the Facebook groups (you decide how nice the folks are and whether you want to stick around).