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Food and Nutrition (Page 3)

Articles relating to food and nutritional needs for hermit crabs.

FAQ What foods are good and bad for hermit crabs?

2012-10-16
In: FAQ, Food and Nutrition
Tagged: benefits, diet, feeding, food, good, healthy, hermit crab, nutrition, safe, unsafe, where to buy

This article is no longer being updated. Please use the new, comprehensive hermit crab food list! Hermit Crabs are beach scavengers and they can and will eat a wide range of things. General rules: Avoid chemicals, pesticides, table salt, moldy foods, plants that are toxic to animals. For hermit crab nutritional needs and the foods that provide them, download our hermit crab nutritional food chart as a PDF. Written by Kerie Campbell Fruits – Fresh or Wrinkly? I’ve read a lot about fresh fruits being in their diets, which I use a lot of BTW. But I’ve read a lot about people putting in fruitsRead More →

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FAQ Should I feed my hermit crab meat?

2012-09-28
In: FAQ, Food and Nutrition
Tagged: balanced, beneficial, diet, dietary needs, FAQ, food, hermit crab, meat, nutrition, requirements, safe

This is a compilation of forum posts from our old site. Rachelrmf posted: I really was not all that big on the meat thing untill i came here and read that so many of you feed alot of meets. So i have alway put a little crab or shrimp or tuna in for them, but just every once in a while. So I was wondering is it on a daily basis that you should feed the meat. I have been changeing out fresh every day but can’t really tell about how much of it they are eating because they like to party at night soRead More →

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FAQ Are gold/feeder fish safe to feed hermit crabs?

2012-09-28
In: FAQ, Food and Nutrition
Tagged: diet, disease, feeder, fish, food, gold, hermit crab, nutrition

This is a compilation of forum posts from our old site. To date we have not confirmed whether diseases fish may have can be passed onto hermit crabs. Sat Mar 05, 2005 Ladycrab wrote: Bought some gold fish for the hermies. Froze them last night just need to know if they need to be prepared any special way before serving them??? Julia_Crab wrote: There’s a bit of controversy afoot about the goldfish method right now. Freezing is a great way to kill any bacteria that might have affected the crabs, if any, though. I’m still not convinced that crabs can be affected by bacteria inRead More →

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The Power of Protein

2012-09-25
In: Biology, Food and Nutrition
Tagged: diet, food, hermit crab, nutrition, protein

Land Hermit Crabs are arthropods. Arthropods have a stiff cuticle made largely of chitin and proteins, forming an exoskeleton that may or may not be further stiffened with calcium carbonate. They have segmented bodies and show various patterns of segment fusion (tagmosis) to form integrated units (heads, abdomens, and so on). The phylum takes its name from its distinctive jointed appendages, which may be modified in a number of ways to form antennae, mouth parts, and reproductive organs. Land Hermit Crabs in the wild eat a lot of protein in the form of dead fish, prawns, seaweed, cuttlefish as well as other forms of proteinRead More →

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