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

2016-04-22
In: Food and Nutrition
Tagged: benefits, diet, feeding, food, guide, healthy, hermit crab, information, needed, nutrition, nutritious, sick, what should I feed my hermit crab, what to buy, where to buy

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 – What to Feed and Why Based on our Nutritional Table. *Nutritional Table- Dietary Requirements with Sources *Foraging Guide-Printable Resource *Where to Buy Guide Safe Food List-A Generous List of Foods Your Hermit Crabs Can Safely Eat 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: SafeRead More →

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Beneficial Foods Containing Zeaxanthin

2015-09-19
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 →

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