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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.

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

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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. *Foraging Guide *Where to Buy Guide *What to Feed and Why Guide ****The files can be downloaded at the bottom of the article.**** 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 LearningRead More →

Beneficial Foods Containing Zeaxanthin

In: Food and Nutrition

Tagged: beneficial, benefits, booster, carotenoid, color, diet, enhancer, feeding, food, guide, healthy, hermit crab, important, information, nutrition, Zeaxanthin

Written by Julia Crab Saturday, 19 November 2005 Zeaxanthin is an important precursor to astaxanthin, the carotenoid crustaceans need most to regulate their body systems. If astaxanthin is hard to come by, then zeaxanthin is the substance that coenobita need most. Beta carotene, while a valuable carotenoid, is not used as efficiently by crabs and is not of as much dietary use as zeaxanthin is. The following lists are of zeaxanthin-containing foods. There are three lists, one each for foods containing high, moderate, and low or trace amounts of this important substance. They are partial and will be updated as new information comes in. FeedRead More →

Learning to prepare food for your hermit crabs

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Tagged: benefits, diet, feeding, food, healthy, hermit crab, nutrition, prepare, tools

Written by Julia Crab 2005 Coconuts: A Really Tough Nut to Crack Yeah, these guys are tricky to open. But the fresh meat and milk inside are crab ambrosia. The best method for opening them is to employ an adult human male. Barring access to one of those, note the three depressions at one end of the coconut. These are the coconut’s eyes. An icepick, a chisel, or a strong slot head screwdriver placed firmly in the center of one of the eyes, and bashed firmly and repeatedly by a hammer will eventually reward those with perseverance. A drill or jigsaw can also be employedRead More →

Foods Containing Carotenids

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Tagged: benefits, beta carotenids, booster, carotene, color, diet, enhancer, feeding, food, healthy, hermit crab, information

Written by Julia Crab Sunday, 07 August 2005 This list contains foods that are moderate to high in beta carotene: apricots bell pepper of any color, red being the highest in carotenids blueberries broccoli cantaloupe carrot chard cilantro (raw) collard greens dandelion greens (raw) fava beans in the pod (raw) grape leaves (raw) lettuce (dark varieties, not iceburg which is nutritionally empty) mango papaya parsley (raw) passionfruit peaches peas persimmon pineapple pumpkin and squash, and seeds (dried) snap beans (raw) spinach spirulina seaweeds and microalgaes sweet potato Astaxanthin is another carotenid found in shrimp and krill and red seaweeds, that the crabs also use. TanninRead More →

Color enhancing foods

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Tagged: astaxanthin, benefits, booster, carotenoid, color, diet, enhancing, feeding, food, healthy, hermit crab, nutrition, tannins, Zeaxanthin

Great idea for an experiment. I have done some research on colour enhancing foods and figuring out how to get crabs a certain colour. If you want really dark brown colour hermit crabs then give them lots of foods rich in tannins such as Brown Oak Leaves, Brown Oak Bark (pesticide free). This comes from Carol of CrabWorks. Her hermit crabs have been eating this since they were itty bitty crabbies, 28+ years ago! If you want orange hues that foods such as carrots, marigold petals have been known to create an increase in orange colour. Foods rich in Astaxanthin are what you are lookingRead More →

Hermit Crab Food Recipes

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Tagged: benefits, diet, feeding, food, guide, healthy, hermit crab, hermit crab care, home made, natural, nutrition, organic, recipes

Unfortunately I have no indications as to who may have created this list though I suspect the list came from Kerie Campbell. I know there are endless food ideas but these may help get you started. Fruity Fish & Flowers II dried calendula (about 2 tsp.) dried chamomile (about 1 tsp.) coconut chunk large papaya chunk pink flame rose bud Kibble and place in the serving dish. Air-pop about 1 Tbl. amaranth shred some dulse 1 Tbl. Flott tuna 1 tsp rolled oats large pinch dandelion root large pinch dried dandelion leaf. Kibble and place on top of the fruit dish, sort of a reverse-chutney.Read More →

FAQ What foods are good and bad for hermit crabs?

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Tagged: benefits, diet, feeding, food, good, healthy, hermit crab, nutrition, safe, unsafe, where to buy

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 the nutritional food chart as a PDF by clicking in the gray box below. Written by Kerie Campbell Fruits – Fresh or Wrinkly? I’ve read alot about fresh fruits being in their diets, which I use alot of BTW. But I’ve read alot about people putting in fruits that are old and wrinkling up. Is one better than the other? Answer by:Read More →

Hermit Crab Food Ingredients

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Source: http://www.prestigepetproducts.com/WhatIsIt.htm Alfalfa meal: is the aerial portion of the alfalfa plant, reasonably free of other crop plants, weeds and mold, which has been finely ground and dried by thermal means under controlled conditions other than sun curing. Alfalfa is an excellent source of phytochemicals and phytoestrogens and their antioxidant effect stimulates the immune system. Amaranth: is a seed plant which is a good alternative source of carbohydrate energy. Amaranth is a valuable carbohydrate ingredient with a unique flavor that compliments the flavor of barley, oats and rye. It is also high in linoleic acids, which are good for skin and coat. Chicken byproducts: consistRead More →