Welcome! If this is your first time to the Adoption Center site, we
hope the information below answers your questions. If not, please email us.

First, visit the main Adoption Center page.
The page will open in another window
so that you can take this step by step guide.

http://www.crabstreetjournal.com/adoptions/index.html

Next, click on 'adoptees' or 'adopters'.

1. LISTING CRABS UP FOR ADOPTION

2. SIGNING UP TO ADOPT

1. TO LIST YOUR HERMIT CRABS FOR ADOPTION

If you have hermit crabs to give away, or adopt out, click on 'adoptees' to list them.

http://www.crabstreetjournal.com/adoptions/adoptees.html

Where you will be asked to answer the
following questions for a successful adoption.

[Sample Form Details - CLICK HERE to fill it out.]

Name of Owner: Email Address: Country: State: Town: Names of adoptees (optional) Average Size: teenie (pea), small (dime), medium (golf ball), large (tennis ball), jumbo (baseball) Reason for putting hermit crabs up for adoption: *optional No time to look after them Moving Child lost interest Other/Don't want to say Other Information: I have multiple adoptees I have photos of the adoptees to add I would prefer they go to someone experienced I would prefer to remain anonymous Please add any comments you have below:

If want to adopt out your Hermit Crabs, fill out the form.

Once you have filled out the form:

1. Visit the MAP and click on the COUNTRY you live in.

2. Click on the STATE where you live.

3. If there are people in your state that are listed as able to adopt, click on their Adoption Canter Details page to view information such as their experience, whether they have an isolation tank, whether they will be able to help pay with the postage, etc.

4. If you would like to adopt your hermit crabs to them, simply email the potential adopters and find out if they are interested or able to adopt at this time, and arrange a delivery of the hermit crabs if all goes well.

5. If there is a successful adoption, email the Adoption Center and we will remove your hermit crabs from the adoptees list, and place a notice on the Adoptees Status page that there has been a successful adoption.

Before you send out the hermit crabs, or prepare
to welcome the adoptees into your home, please
read our helpful articles and prepare in advance.

2. SIGNING UP TO ADOPT:

If you have enough room and experience to adopt someone else's hermit crabs, click on 'adopters' and fill out the form to sign up as an adopter.

http://www.crabstreetjournal.com/adoptions/adopters.html

Sample form: Below is the information you will need to fill out in the form

Name: * Email: * Age: I am over 18 years of age * [Note: Please stop filling out this form if you are under 18 years of age.] LOCATION Country: * State: * Closest pet store to where I live: * EXPERIENCE I have owned hermit crabs for: * under three months three to six months 6 months - 12 months 1 - 2 years 2-3 years 3-4 years 4-5 years 5-10 years 10-15 years 15+ Date of application: * CRABITAT SPECIFICS Size of crabitat: * Description: * Photos of my crabitat: I have a spare 10 Gallon/40L tank (or larger) with lid I have had successful molts HERMIT CRAB CARE Foods I feed my land hermit crabs: Calcium supplements I offer: ADOPTION SPECIFICS I would prefer to adopt hermit crabs from within my state I am willing to pay for postage costs I am willing to drive to pick up the adoptees COMMENTS Please add any comments you have below:

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

Once the forms have been filled out they are sent to adoptioncentre@crabstreetjournal.com

The hermit crabs that are listed for adoption will show up BOTH on the 'available to adopt' page of The Crab Street Journal AND on the State pages at http://www.crabstreetjournal.com/map

For example:

John decides to adopt out his 4 hermit crabs: itsy, bitsy, teenie and tot.
He lives in Nebraska, USA and would like people within his own state
to adopt the hermit crabs. He has filled out the form and the information
about the hermit crabs has been added to the 'adoptees to adopt' page, as
well as the Nebraska State page.

The Adoption Canter team then email the members who have listings on the Nebraska page, giving them first preference since they are signed up as adopters. If they are not interested or able to adopt, then messages are sent out to the various message boards announcing that hermit crabs are up for adoption in the State of Nebraska, along with the details.

Sometimes, however, there are private adoptions. When filling out the adoptees form, there is a checkbox that says 'private' and the people adopting out their hermit crabs do not wish the Adoption Center to give out their email address or Town details.

If you are interested in an adoption that has been marked private, you will need to either add your details to your State page or email with your interest, and we (the Adoption Center team) will contact the party who is adopting out the hermit crabs. If the adoption is successful, the message on the adoptees page and State pages are removed, and a 'successful adoption' message is placed on the Adoptions main page if we are informed.

Go to http://www.crabstreetjournal.com/map and click on your Country and State. If you need any more information, why not email adoptioncentre@crabstreetjournal.com and hopefully we can help. Until then, please do add your adoption center details, profiles and favourite pet store details to the map, as you have more chance of adopting hermit crabs if people can learn a little more about you and feel comfortable putting their little adoptees into your happy crabitat. It is also a wonderful way to get to know others within your state, and perhaps help others with the information you needed when you first started crabbing. It all starts with you.

Hope this has helped!

The Adoption Center Team

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