HCA: Hermit Crab Association

My hermies are having some fruits and veggies, but their main course climbed out of the food bowl! They may have a pet worm now (not from outside)... Tomorrow I will give them a fish head from the fish we caught today...they LOVE to pick out and eat the eyes :shock: Kind of gross, but they really, r...

Since mine are becoming voracious pigs all of a sudden, I'm going to try something they wouldn't touch before. Chicken livers (boy do they stink after a day). Also giving them an apple slice, celery leaves, and some crushed walnuts and almonds.

Tonight is one of their favorites to make a mess with... oatmeal. I usually throw in some nuts and dried cranberries or other dried fruit. With a side of live mealies they hopefully won't pupate in the shell shop for pets this time...lol. :roll:

The hermies are going to have a fresh fruit salad with a side of mackerel for dinner. Bananas, mango, strawberries, grapes, kiwi, maybe pineapple if I cut it up (got a fresh one), walnuts, almonds, and apple. I might thin down some honey and toss the fruit in it, then for crunch add some dead mealwo...

I don't know how four crabs can clear a dish...I have 15 and the food is hardly messed with (except the crabs who think the shortest point from a to b is to march through the food dish :roll: ). The only thing that they ever steal from the food dish is dried bananas or honey coated food. Tonight is ...

Running out of ideas. I see you have picky eaters. They may be eating but it's just a tiny amount you don't notice. You can try tricking them and put honey or molasses on some of the food. They also really like sesame oil but be very sparing with it because a little bit can stink up the whole place...

As in, Jurassi diet, for example. While I can't say for others crabs, my first set of crabs when I was a kid were fed solely Jurassi for 5-6 years straight (back before there was much info on hermit crabs). None of them died from it and it never seemed to affect them- they actually fought over it l...

Tonight for my own dinner I made Bruschetta Chicken which turned out really yummy. I made the hermies a safe version and someone went to town on the topping... My cousin and my crabs seem to prefer their food like 5 minutes from being fuzzy rather than nice and fresh

Ham is never okay - the curing process for ham involves a lot of chemicals and seasonings so that it's not safe from the package, even if you haven't added anything to it after. Straight pork would be fine, but cured meats like ham, bologna, hot dogs, and deli meats are not safe. Eh they dont eat h...

Ham & Beans tonight. Cooked spiral ham (no seasonings of course), green beans, and potatoes. It's always nice when what I am eating can be used for the crabs after I take out a portion before seasoning it for me. Think the dogs will have some too tonight... ran out of dog food. :roll:

Mine are all underground. All 18 of 'em. I can see two shells that belong to two hermies but they are halfway buried. There was a heating disaster in my apartment for a few days while I was out of town and they got affected by it. I saw 4 up last night but they have since gone and hid from me... I m...

Sometimes I have to leave a day where it's nearly meats or seafood only because mine are sweet tooth's and LOVE fruit. I'm attempting to breed mealworms (so far so good) because mine seemed to like them and well the pet store here doesn't carry any. I got my hands on some from my cousin who has liza...

Mine only eat dried bananas for some reason. They are having an easy dinner tonight. Chicken, dried banana chips, dried cranberries, and my Crabby Christmas cookies they overlooked last night!

Mine are having a fruit and meat night. They have a grape, kiwi, apple, sardines, shrimp tails, annnnnnnnnnnd Mecha's favorite, strawberries! Too bad she is molting- she won't get them this time.

The stinky stuff is always the best liked... I ran out of dog food so I had to make the dogs homemade dinner for tonight until I can get to the store tomorrow. The hermies had the same thing since it is all safe. Brown rice eggs tuna (no salt) carrots peas green beans corn My dog usually will not ea...