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What’s for dinner? A hermit crab food guide!

Most commercial hermit crab foods contain toxic ethoxyquin and/or copper sulfate. Fish meal typically contains hidden ethoxyquin that is not required to be listed.
Most commercial hermit crab foods contain toxic ethoxyquin and/or copper sulfate. Fish meal typically contains hidden ethoxyquin that is not required to be listed.

In an effort to simplify feeding for hermit crab owners we have put together a few printable hermit crab food guides.  These should be used in conjunction with our safe and unsafe lists.

*Nutritional Guide

*Foraging Guide

*Where to Buy Guide

*What to Feed and Why Guide

****The files can be downloaded at the bottom of the article.****

Safe Food list you can print:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/113toruv4u7NJxPYdM8-xVXZ7W4duiC54EvKqrh33-pY/edit?usp=sharing

If you have additions or corrections for any of these guides or other food lists please send them to crabstreetjournal@gmail.com As we don’t allow commenting due to spammers.


Additional food related articles:

Safe and Unsafe Wood
Edible Flowers
What Foods are Good and Bad?
Beneficial Foods Containing Zeaxanthin
Learning to prepare food for your hermit crabs
Foods Containing Carotenids
Color Enhancing Foods
Adulterants & Additives in Hermit Crab Food
Atypical Things Hermit Crabs Can Eat
Going Natural Beginner’s List
People Food for Hermit Crabs
Growing Your Own Hermit Crab Food
Hermit Crab Food Recipes
Should I Feed My Hermit Crab Meat
The Power of Protein

  • Animal proteins for hermit crabs
  • Vegetables for hermit crabs
  • Seeds and Grains for hermit crabs
  • Nuts for hermit crabs
  • Fruits for hermit crabs
  • Foraged for hermit crabs
  • Anthocyanins for hermit crabs
  • Supplements for hermit crabs
  • Lutein Zeaxanthin by Amber Miner

Click to access copper-sulfate-toxic.pdf

Hermit-Crab-Nutritonal-Table-2019
Hermit-Crab-Nutritonal-Table-2019
Hermit-Crab-Nutrional-Table-2019.pdf
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Hermit crab nutrition table

Author:Lisa Loseke
Category:Download-Print-Share
Date:January 8, 2014
Food WhereToBuy Final
Food WhereToBuy Final
Food_WhereToBuy_Final.pdf
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An easy at a glance list of where to find your favorite Hermit Crab foods.

Author:Stacy Griffith
Platforms:Windows 8
Category:Download-Print-Share
Date:April 22, 2016
Foraging List Final Rev4 2019
Foraging List Final Rev4 2019
Foraging-List-Final-Rev4-2019.pdf
7.9 MiB
615 Downloads
Details
Date:March 26, 2020

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