Tips on Maintaining a Healthy Diet for Pet Hermit Crabs

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Part of the video series: How to Care for Land Hermit Crabs

Summary: Learn what pet hermit crabs eat, what food to feed a land hermit crab, and how to maintain a healthy diet in this free instructional video clip.

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By Debbie Noah
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Debbie Noah is an elementary school teacher at Bedford Heights Elementary in Bedford, TX. She has been teaching over 30 years.read more

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hermiesrokmysox said

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on 8/2/2008 most comercial hermit crab food (even those shown) have perservatives such as ethoxyquin that can block the absorbtion of the need vitamins and can cause bad molts, deformaties and even death. please feed you hermit crabs FRESH fruits, vegies, nuts, plants, and meats. check out this site for the BEST list out there:http://www.epi curean-hermit.com/in dex.php?PHPSESSID=6a aa0f8713048982bc184f 911ebd931c&board =21.0

theguardian2 said

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on 8/2/2008 Calcium is very very important for their diet, many ways to give it to them.

summr said

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on 8/2/2008 As well intended as Ms. Noah may be in sharing her "expert" knowledge on land hermit crab husbandry, as Expert Village has deemed her based on being an award winning teacher who has cared for land hermit crabs for 14 years, these videos are very misleading with regard to what necessitates proper care. There are too many corrections to point out here on each of Ms. Noah's videos so, if you are truly interested in providing care that gives your hermit crabs the opportunity for a happy, healthy and longer life, and you prefer to have pets that not only survive, but thrive, please visit landhermitcrabs.com. We look forward to meeting you!

animalavenger said

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on 8/2/2008 Most hermit crab foods have bad ingredients, like preservative, pesticides, etc. Chemicals can hurt hermit crabs, especially pesticides, because hermit crabs are arthropods with gills. Their gills get burned. Also, pesticides can eaaily kill them. My crab has died of a cat's flea collar before.

1badcrab said

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on 8/2/2008 she is an expert. an expert hermit crab killer. when she is talking, put your fingers in your ear, you will be smarter for it.

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"Hi! I am Debbie with expertvillage.com. We are talking about having hermit crabs as pets and what we are discussing right now is what kinds of food you can give your crab and how you maintain healthy water for your crab. There are lots of foods on the market now, powdered varieties, there are some with little shrimp, brine shrimp in them. I prefer this little powdered variety, because the smell is not really strong and somehow it gets a little rank and its easily cleaned up, if your crabs don’t eat it. This one has a lot of iron, they contain some coconut, which is good for your crabs. Crabs are slow eaters and they don’t eat a whole lot, so you don’t want to give your crab a ton of food, just what they can eat in a 24-hour period. So, usually for five crabs, I would give them about this much, probably not going to eat it all, I will clean it out after 24 hours. Also, in their food dish because crabs are omnivorous, which means they will eat almost anything, you want to give them some fresh food as well, a piece of apple, a little piece of carrot, they really love, because I like watching how much they eat, you can really tell there are little bites they have taken in those fresh pieces of food. Now, super important to get this food out of here after 24 hours because it is going to get rotten and you don’t want that. Your crabs don’t need to eat rotten food. So, again you are going to clean out their food dish every 24 hours. "

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