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Hermit Crabitats and Care
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items So many crab owners have contacted me after a crab has passed, trying to keep the cage mate alive. Lack of humidity is the most common issue!! Do NOT use lights, only mat heaters. See my care lists for other tips.
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Foods for hermit crabs
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Foods for hermit crabs
Hermit crabs cannot repeat a food within 7 days. It's important to feed variety for their health and growth
Approved seller for the Land Hermit Crab Owner's Society
Just 2 Old Crabs
The ONLY book you can use for land Hermit Crab care. By Stacy Griffith, who is informing the science and actively consulted by researchers
Complete Guide to Land Hermit Crabs Care
A list guide to setting up a successful crabitat
Hermit Crabitats and Care
One meal or for the whole family, can't go wrong here
Mashawi Halal Grill
Crabs need a protein at every meal, these don't spoil! Add to a protein "bar", a dedicated dried protein dish you leave in for a few days straight before refreshing to make sure they have enough at all times.
Dried Mealworms
A protein that you can add to a protein "bar" that you leave in for a few days before refreshing to make sure they always have enough . Great source of chitin.
Dried Crickets
Great carb and protein source, very popular with every breed of land hermit crab. Place sprigs around the crabitat in dry spots up off the damp.
Bird Millet
Pick a single ingredient spirulina, rich nutrition for crabs!
Organic Spirulina Powders
Pick a loose bee pollen, once a week as it's a treat! No added sugar, single ingredient. Good for sluggish crabs or crabs in hospital isolations.
Bee Pollen in Superfoods(78)
Pick a single ingredient organic beet juice powder, no more than once a week, part of color essentials for a proper bright exo.
Beet Juice Powder
Choose organic single ingredient, work castings should be offered 24/7 with calcium and green sand or chitin.
Worm Castings
Choose single organic sourced eggshell for calcium. Crabs need calcium 24/7 with work castings and green sand.
Eggshell Powder
Choose organic single ingredient and refrigerate after opening! Important for a fat source for crabs
Flax Powder
Choose single ingredient, important for color and fat source!
Red Pepper Flakes
Choose organic single ingredient, important color and nutrition source for crabs, at least once a week on offer!
Spirulina Powder Blue
Important color and nutrition for crabs, choose single ingredient
Turmeric Root Powder
Their favorite! They'll feel at home with this, a great source of nutrition and fat. Give on the regular!
Unsweetened Coconut
Choose a no salt only peanut source for crabs and serve in a small cupped shape shell so they don't get it all over themselves!
Organic peanut butter in Peanut butter(40)
Single ingredient and organic, make this a regular option!
Nutritional Yeast in Yeast(156)
Important to offer this 24/7 with worm castings and calcium for your crabs. All brands you choose for this should be ocean mined, no additives, no pesticides.
Greensand Soil Additive (2 Pounds); Special Container Gardening Additive
Crabs need flowers! Safe gir crabs and a convenient blend. Good for color and nutrition
Exotic Nutrition Flower Fusion 0.88 oz.
Crabitats
They look complicated, but I have a list that's complete -not the pet store kits that dry out your crabs, but life sustaining terrariums that crabs live in for years. Minimal maintenance, beautiful presentation to keep them engaged. No build!
The ONLY book you can use for land Hermit Crab care. By Stacy Griffith, who is informing the science and actively consulted by researchers
Complete Guide to Land Hermit Crabs Care
The best place to get large used aquariums at a good price.
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Get mats that you can hook a temperature setting device into, I recommend inkbird but there are others. The temp should be accessible through your phone for round the clock monitoring
Heat Mats
Hook into your heat mat for temperature control, set the gauge at least 3 inches off the sand or in the center of the tank for accurate readings. Might need to zip tie into a structure for busy crabs. Grab a spare! Some crabs are clippers lol
Inkbird Thermostats - Walmart.com
These are your upper levels for your terrarium. Close off the screen at the top by removing that top and flipping the entire thing upside down. Add weatherproofing strips to the top ( now bottom) edges. I recommend covering the top glass with somethi...
Terrarium Doors
For two crabs!
30 Gallon Aquariums
The ideal size for a colony of 10 crabs! No need for a topper at this size!
150 Gallon Aquarium
Multipacks of plastic plants make it easier to stash them around the crabitat and create hiding spots for tunnel entrances . Don't forget to affix them up high as well, to create confidence at grrater heights
Plastic Plants for Aquariums | Aquatop
Fight Poaching and Wildlife Trafficking
The only domestic source of captive bred hermit crabs. This is where you get crabs who are NOT afraid of people and will wave at you through the glass!
Josh's Frogs