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An Argument for Isolating Hermit Crabs

Tagged: bacteria, black, coenobita, contagious, disease, hermit crab, illness, infection, isolation, mites, pps, rot, shell, spot

When adding newly purchased or adopted hermit crabs to an existing colony, for the long-term health of all, we at CSJ recommend a 30 day quarantine period in an isolation tank. Placing newly purchased or adopted hermit crabs into an existing healthy colony without a quarantine period risks the unnecessary exposure of your healthy hermits to shell disease or parasites. If you are just starting out with hermit crabs and do not have an existing colony or crabitat in place, use of the PPS Reduction Method will allow you to monitor your new crabs for 30 days and bring them slowly up to ideal environmentalRead More →

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

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 →

FAQ Prawns posing possible disease threat?

In: FAQ

Tagged: disease, FAQ, hermit crab, infect, prawns, safe, sickness

This is a compilation of forum posts from our old site. Troppo Dec 13, 2006 Today I read an interesting article in a Queensland newspaper that crabbers(particularly Australian crabbers) who feed their crabs prawns, may like to read. Below is an excerpt. Prawns posing disease threat. The increased volume and decreased price of imported green prawns has further escalated the risk of spreading the diseases, white spot syndrome and taura syndrome to the state’s prawn stocks. The Department of Fisheries and Primary Industries has initiated it’s own testing and sampling program as a measure to protect prawn stocks with traces of both the diseases beingRead More →