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Growing your own hermit crab food
With a small seed sprouter and some seeds you can easily grow a mini garden of tasty and tender sprout shoots to feed your hermit crabs. This could be an easy way to provide some fresh food while you...
View ArticlePeople food for hermit crabs
Aside from the obvious flowers, plants, leaves, fruits and vegetables, there are some other people foods that can be safe to feed to your hermit crabs. This is not an exhaustive list but the most...
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Going Natural Beginner’s List
If you are limited to what organics you can find or afford check out this list of foods that are safe to buy non-organic and foods that you should always buy organic: Dirty Dozen Food List written by...
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Atypical things hermit crabs can eat
Feces – herbivorous animal droppings. In Quirimba hermit crabs are known to eat human waste as well. Fish flakes or pellets Bloodworms Mealworms Earthworms Cuttlebone – great source of calcium Cicadas...
View ArticleAdulterants & Additives in hermit crab food
Written by Julia Crab Monday, 01 August 2005 What follows is a list of ingredients added to commercial and processed foods that may harm hermit crab health when fed. While I believe that these...
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Color enhancing foods
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...
View ArticleEdible flowers for hermit crabs
Written by Julia Crab Monday, 23 May 2005 Did you know that flowers are good for crabs? They contain vitamin C as well as vitamin A and many of the pigmentation substances such as beta carotene. As...
View ArticleFoods Containing Carotenids
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...
View ArticleLearning to prepare food for your hermit crabs
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...
View ArticleBeneficial Foods Containing 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...
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What’s for dinner? A hermit crab food guide!
Hermit Crab Feeding Guide – Printables from CrabStreetJournal.org In an effort to simplify feeding for hermit crab owners we have put together a few printable hermit crab food guides. These should be...
View ArticleHermit Crab Food Foraging List
For the outdoorsy hermit crab enthusiast we have compiled a list of foods that can be collected or harvested. It’s perfect to tuck into your backpack for easy reference. The post Hermit Crab Food...
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Suet for hermit crabs
Suet for hermit crabs Ingredients: Flax Seed Chia Seed Amaranth Wheat Sesame Seeds Quinoa (Red and White) Kelp Powder Mixed seed bird seed with dried fruit Organic Coconut oil Quantities needed depend...
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Sushi
Sushi by Amber M. Ingredients Dried green or red algae 3 sheets Kombu (break into pieces or use scissors to chop) 3 medium pieces Nori 3 sheets Red cargo rice, or your favorite nutritionally dense...
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Breakfast Bowl
Breakfast Bowl by Amber M. Ingredients 1/3 Cup Plain Oats 1/4 Cup wheat germ 1/4 Cup dried coconut 1/4 Cup dried mixed fruit (chop a bit first) 3 tbsp Chamomile Flowers 2 tbsp Nutritional Yeast 2 tbsp...
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Grand Slam
Grand Slam by Amber M. Ingredients 1 Cup+ dried meal worms 1/3 Cup dried beef or chicken (break into small pieces first) 1/2 Cup polenta or cornmeal (it’s the same thing) Several clean dry egg shells...
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