HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Motörcrab wrote: ↑

Thu May 07, 2020 3:01 am

Tonight's feeding. I included shop names from where we purchased some of our foods. If there isn't a name we resourced it ourselves.

#1 Proteins and various from 1pm clockwise
1. Color Mix (Mary Akers)
2. Almonds, pecans, sunflower seeds, cashews, sesame seeds, crushed peppers
3. Smelt (MT Pet Emporium)
4. Salmon skin
5. Fiesta Fruit (2 Old Crabs)
6. Pork liver (MT Pet Emporium)
Center. Raw Honey


#2 Leaf Litter
Garden Mix (wodesorel)
Calendula,
passion flower,
dandelion root,
hibiscus,
spinich,
corn,
kelp,
dulse,
spirulina


#3 Calci Poop dish
Worm castings,
bat guano (BioactiveFX1)
seagull guano, (BioactiveFX1)
chicken poop,
snake skin, (Healthy Hermit)
crab & lobster exo, (Crab Street Journal)
oyster shell flour, (Healthy Hermit)
greensand (Healthy Hermit)
rose buds


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Those spoiled crabs!

Today is romaine lettuce, carrots, and high commercial pellet food tomorrow is cheerios and whatever I find that is good

WOW.

I've just been feeding freeze dried food to my crabs. The last meal that was in their dish was: Freeze Dried Fruit (Zilla), Flowers (Tortoise Flower topper), Red Shrimp (Zoo Med), Soldier worms (Fluker), Thrive Calcium Powder, Fruit Salad (Zoo Med), Peanut Crunch (Zoo Med) and Blueberry treat (Fluker).

Today(Monday) I made an omelet.
Rating: 7/10. Great fresh protein-rich food. I normally give this to crabs right after or before a molt.
Recipe:
1 egg. (including eggshell)
a small handful of blueberries.
3 Apple slices
3 strawberries
Cook on a pan with coconut oil on medium heat.
Gently FOLD in until all egg cooked.
Store in freezer up to 1 week or serve fresh/warm.
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Today(Tuesday) I made cookies.
Rating: 6/10 The bigger crabs LOVED this but it was a bit hard for the littles to pick at.
Recipe:
1/4 cup of coconut flour
2/4 cup of water (or however much needed to get to dough consistency)
2 tablespoons of honey.
2 tablespoons of peanut butter.
3/4 cups of rolled oats.
A couple of slices of apple OR a small handful of blueberry.
Place into oven on 350 and cook until golden brown (usually takes around 10-15 minutes)
Store in freezer up to 1 month, or serve fresh/warm.
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Today (Wednesday) I gave a 'seed' mix.
Rating: 9/10 Great mix to leave a petsitter. last forever and has a variety. All my crabs love this!
Recipe(not measured!):
Rolled oats
Chia seeds
Flax seeds
Rice
Almonds
Walnuts
dried strawberries
Dried blueberries
Dried banana
Store in an airtight container until all used up.
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Today (Thursday) I made a fruit mix!
Rating: 10/10. ALL my crabs really have a go at this. I think they love how sweet the fruit gets!
Recipe (not measured!!):
Dried strawberries
Dried blueberries
Dried banana
Dried mango
Dried pineapple
Dried watermelon
Baked coconut
Dried apple

Today’s menu consist of:
salmon, pineapple and mango pieces, crayfish, coconut flakes, fresh marigold petals, black chia seeds, bladderwrack, cranberries , rose petals, & strawberries

Changed out the fresh food dish tonight. Filled it up with white basmati rice (maybe not the most nutritious, but they love it haha), banana, spinach, frozen brine shrimp, broccoli, red bell pepper, shrimp exo, and dried calendula. They've got a dried food dish too (that I usually change out every Wed and Sun) filled with loads of goodies as well.

Today’s menu is Snake Skin, Oak leaves, Blackberry leaves, Sea grape leaves, Jasmine flowers, Butterfly pea flowers, Plankton, Crushed oyster shells & Butternut squash yummy yummy


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darn, some of y'all going all out for the crabs! Mine seem to be very picky, and they really don't eat much... However, they always chow down on riced cauliflower and also on popcorn. They never touch the blueberries, apples, watermelon, chicken, etc... I Evan read somewhere that they like cat food (wet) so I even tried that to no success... But Cauliflower and popcorn are always a big hit.

So today’s meal is mini pancakes, a blueberry sorbet mix and a eggs and oatmeal mix sprinkled with almonds and egg shells.


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Just prepped tonight's dinner for the crabbos: celery leaves, green cabbage, shredded carrots, blueberry, honey, ground flaxseed, dried squid, dried octopus, dashi kombu seaweed, kelp powder, dragon fruit powder, & THCP Midnight Ecstasy dry food mix. Plus the calcium pit with cuttlebone, green sand, and crushed oyster shells.

All three of my crabs are up right now (or at least they were last night!) so I'm hoping for some munching action in the crabitat tonight.

craboloading wrote:Just prepped tonight's dinner for the crabbos: celery leaves, green cabbage, shredded carrots, blueberry, honey, ground flaxseed, dried squid, dried octopus, dashi kombu seaweed, kelp powder, dragon fruit powder, & THCP Midnight Ecstasy dry food mix. Plus the calcium pit with cuttlebone, green sand, and crushed oyster shells.

All three of my crabs are up right now (or at least they were last night!) so I'm hoping for some munching action in the crabitat tonight.

Yum!!

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For my Crabbies its a 1/4tsp of HCP Red White and Blueberries, with some boiled and ground up eggshell in one scallop shell that I use for their food, and in another is a 1/4tsp of HCP Surf N Turf, for both did add just a tiny bit of the HCP Mineral Supplement to them. Right now I only have one crab that is active, the other 5 are all burrowed under the substrate.

Did pick up organic chia, flax, rolled oats, long grain brown rice, quinoa, and fennel along with a jar of organic bee pollen. So will slowly start trying to make some of my own food mixes using these grains and the freeze dried river shrimp, meal worms and crickets that I have. Also ground up in a coffee grinder about 12 quartered and dehydrated Carolina Reaper peppers that my brother grew, only thing he used was the potting soil and light watering, no fertilizers or pesticides. Funny thing is that plan is still trying to produce peppers, he has already pulled probably 9 or 10 dozen peppers off it and it still has about another 2 dozen left that aren't quite ripe yet with probably 3 or 4 that are still green. Already have my brother who is planning on erecting a greenhouse/hothouse willing to grow various veggies for the crabs.

Tonight's rotating dinner is frozen banana, shrimp exo, extra virgin olive oil, dried squid, dried red shrimp, THCP Basic Diet, dried elderberries, noni fruit powder, dried daphnia, dulse powder, and green coconut powder.

Not pictured is the calcium pit which was refreshed tonight as well. It includes green sand, crushed oyster shells, cuttlebone, azomite, and crab exo

(Also this is my first time trying to share a pic, I hope it works!)

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Tonight I'm serving some food mixes from HermitGrub. The mixes being served are Crushed oyster shell, Apple powder, Greensand, color me purple and chicken breast. I have more mixes than that but every night I mix it up. I'll add more fresh foods tomorrow.

Tonight I have lobster, I homemade mix with flax seeds, nuts, crushed egg shells and coconut. For the last thing I have is there favourite mix blueberry sorbet from chubby crab
I also have cuttlebone available at all times. Doesn’t look like a lot but I only have 2/4 up right now.


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