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Hermit Crab Guide
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items Everything that you need to know (and it's a lot) about hermit crab care - Comprehensive guides and lists to make sure you have it all
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New Parent Essentials
Necessities
🤩 accessories
food 🍣🍓🥩🍤🥬🍴
enrichment 🛝🏝️
New Parent Essentials
Your first stop to caring for a hermit crab (the right way, not the way that we have all been taught by the beach shops!)
Basic Hermit Crab Care [PDF]
Another great read before (or after) getting your new exotic pet!
Bringing Home A New Hermit Crab
All hermit crabs, all in one place. This is the only guide you need (but you should definitely read all of them) to caring for your exotic pet.
Start Here: Hermit Crab Care | The Crab Street Journal
Answers to all of your hermit crab questions
Hermit Crabs- The Basics - Winnebago County Animal Services
A facebook group for fellow hermie parents
Hermit Crab Society | Facebook
A facebook group for you to learn and ask questions about your new pet
Hermit Crab Association | Facebook
ADOPT DONT SHOP - supporting the beach shops and pet stores contributes to the cruelty these crabs are facing. Do not purchase a hermit crab from a beach store, do your research, get the proper habitat and adopt one locally. There are plenty near you...
Hermit Harbor
A facebook group dedicated to rehoming and adoption of hermit crabs. Check this out when looking for your next pet.
Hermit Crab Adoption, Rehoming And Foster | Facebook
Easily scoop poops and uneaten food with this little scooper
Fluker's Hermit Crab Sand Scooper
Necessities
Hermit crabs need this added to their fresh and salt water (I also use this when boiling items that I add to their tank to sanitize)
Seachem Prime Fresh & Saltwater Conditioner 500ml
Hermit crabs need BOTH a salt water & fresh water (treated) pool to survive. Adding a bubbler to your pool makes your life much easier (you’ll have to change the water daily without a bubbler)
3D Printed Hermit Crab Pool with Splash Guard & Bubble Bar
So nice to add this in the tank for essentials (green sand, worm castings, oyster shell) so I don’t have to replenish daily and they still have constant access. Game changer!
Hermit Crab Gravity Feeder w/ 4 Bottles & Trays
🤩 accessories
Hermit crabs love to climb and forage so this is the perfect combo for your crabitat! I want the large one 🤭
Hermit Crab Playground with Hide - Shell Shop -- Idea for XS to Medium hermit crabs
Why did the hermit crab cross the tank?
To get to the foraging pit. Give your little guys the bridge they need to roam
Hermit Crab Hammock, Hermit Crab Bridge
How adorable is this little foraging nest
Macrame Hermit Crab Pod, Foraging Nest | Cotton Air Plant Holder
Give your hermies the second story they deserve
Hermit Crab Observation Deck – Elevated Climbing Platform with Adjustable Stairs | Enrichment Toy
food 🍣🍓🥩🍤🥬🍴
You start to question your sanity when you have a hermit crab… you’ll be purchasing pretttty bizarre items (like 💩)
Baby Horseshoe Crab Molt | Hermit Grub | Hermit Crab Food
Bat poop 👀👀👀 I told you that you’d be purchasing pretty crazy things. They are scavengers
Guano Gold Bat Guano for Hermit Crabs
THE best place to get you started (or add on to your growing collection). Hermit crabs need a varied diet so you will need to stock up on all of their food groups to keep them healthy
Custom Hermit Crab Food & Oil Variety Packs
Your protein mix (they need LOTS of protein)
Hermit Crab Variety Pack: Wild and Exotic Game. Made with organic ingredients.
you will find the best 3d printed dishes on Etsy. Honestly, I used ceramic dishes I found around my house or at the thrift store, but I have since bought several 3d dishes specifically for their oils.
3D Printed Hermit Crab Feeding Dish: Original Divided Flower Design
My hermies LOVE their oil dishes, while you can add oils you would already have I like to purchase a few small bottles of “exotic” ones for them to enjoy
Hermit Crab Oil Bundle | Organic, cold pressed, unrefined
Your ultimate hermit crab food bundle. Hermit crabs needs lots of different food groups. Buying in bulk to make your own takes up a lot of time and space, I like to look on etsy for great priced bundles already made like this one!
Crabby Buffet 21-Pack | Hermit Grub | Hermit Crab Food
My hermies are O B S E S S E D with this stuff plus its so cool 😭
Pink Bikini Aragonite Live Sand for Hermit Crabs, Natural Calcium Substrate, Includes 1 Urchin
enrichment 🛝🏝️
I mean how cute is this?! 🤭
Hermit Crab Tire Swing: 5" Enrichment Toy with Feeding Dish
Yummy treats and foraging mix
Hermit Crab Foraging Flowers Mix
I made my own but it took forEVERRRR so I’d highly recommend spending the couple of dollars on one of these because they will l o v e it!
Hermit crab climber
Go ahead and make this your first “splurge” because your babies will not get off of this once you introduce it to their crabitat! I’ve seen mine walk on it for more than 5 hours non stop before
The Original 3D Printed Hermit Crab Wheel: Merry-go-Round, 3-8 inch
Fun to make and your crabs will love it
Hermit Crab Jute Rope Climbing Wall with Custom Colored Rings
Hermies need lots of calcium, here is one source you can add to your tank.
Hermit Crab Calcium Sea Biscuits, Natural Foraging Treats, Calcium for Hermit Crabs, Dried Sea Life, Hermit Crab Treat, Hermit Crab Supplies
Hermit Crabs like to hide, they are social creatures amongst themselves but they need to be able to hide to feel safe.
Magnetic Hermit Crab Wall Hide | Elevated Log Tunnel, Climbing Cave, Terrarium Decor
Hermies love to climb and this allows you to add hanging items to your tank that your crabs can still access
Hermit Crab Climbing Toy Reptile Decor
Give your hermies snacks with this little feeder ball. I like to shove popcorn in there
2 Pcs Hermit Crab Treat & Feeder Balls
Another hanging foraging toy for your hermies
2 Pcs Tortoise Hanging Hay Feeder Ball