While hermit crabs are easy to feed, you need to remember some crucial feeding rules. Depending on what you feed your hermit crabs, they can be healthy or become sick rather quickly. While hermit crabs are omnivores, you need to feed them healthy foods and avoid any junk or sugary foods. What is more, hermit crabs need some protein with each meal 7 days a week. The protein source should mainly come from animal sources, with some plant-based protein too. Other important sources of food for hermit crabs are vegetables and greens, including sea vegetables, so feed various types of those days a week.
Below, you will find a list of foods for hermit crabs in each category. There are many ready-made hermit crab foods that you can get for your hermits.
These are sold in the form of pellets, flakes, ground powder and more, and provide convenience and nutrition for hermit crabs. You will find buffet blends, fruit mixes, high-protein mixes made from animal and some protein sources. Some brands even sell hermit crab meal cakes like this. Always make sure commercial foods are soaked or sprayed with plenty of water.
Watch out for preservatives, such as butylhydroxytoluene, ethoxyquin, copper sulfate and others, as they could possibly have a negative effect on hermit crab health. When choosing, check the label for ingredients. Apart from buffet blends, you can also get omnivore buffet blends, freeze-dried mealworms, freeze-dried or canned bloodworms, snails, grasshoppers, crickets, silkworms, crickets, shrimps and more. Below you can find a list of top animal and plant protein sources for hermit crabs.
Some insects, such as waxworms and superworms, are extremely fatty, so limit them in the hermit crab diet. I like shiny things I am also a Die hard Lego fan! Re: how often do crabs eat? Post by angelbearpuppy » Mon Mar 04, pm Crabs eat every day.
Just like you do. But they eat in such small amounts, that it is hardly ever noticeable. Especially if you put in a lot, and only have a few crabs. If they are living, they are eating.
And as long as you feed them a healthy varied diet you do not have to worry. Post by purplepincher » Mon Mar 04, pm ok, thank you so much! Post by Hermiesguardian » Tue Mar 05, am Also sometimes they eat the moss, the substrate and the bits of food that has fallen into the substrate. And I have come to find out that they actually store food in their shells. Guess it's for a late night or midmorning snack. Raising daughter's hermit crabs, Shelder, Paras and Derek.
Shells Usually after moulting, hermit crabs will change the shell they the live in. Provide the hermit crabs with some spare shells in the aquarium. It is essential you provide shells that are slightly larger than the previous one as your hermit crabs are continuously growing.
Fighting Fighting can be an issue if your aquarium is over populated and crowed. You might need to get a larger aquarium if too many crabs live together, and add more climbing ornaments to space the crabs out. Some hermit crabs might get aggressive and pull other crabs out of their shells to steal. It is important to have enough spare shells to avoid this happening. Health Common health problems with hermit crabs include stress and poisoning, so make sure you keep a close eye on them.
Signs of stress include inactiveness, sluggish, and leaving their shells. Stress can be caused from overcrowding and bullying, living alone, being dropped on their shells, or extreme temperatures either too hot, or too cold. Hermit crabs can be easily poisoned from cleaning sprays and detergents used around the house, and only a small amount can be fatal. Make sure no chemicals are used when cleaning the aquarium, and none are used near your hermit crabs including hairspray and air fresheners.
Be careful if you take your hermit crabs out and place them on carpet, as carpets care normally cleaned with chemicals. Signs that might indicated your hermit crab is poisoned are dropping their shells off and sitting in water, weakness they need strong muscles to hold their shell up , and pulling off limbs.
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