HCA: Hermit Crab Association

yup thats the food. Any pics of your crabs will do they don't need to be eating or anything.

kuza wrote:My crabs love your foods!!!

Great! Email me a testimonial and some crabby pics and Ill mail you a free bag of food!

Its operational now, we are just getting a new one. Coloradocritterco.com

We wholesale to THCP so I am sure you got it there! It doesn't matter where you got our food so ahead and send those pics!

Hello everybody, If you don't know me Im the owner of Colorado Critter Co. We are redesigning our website and adding a testimonials section. It will continue growing as time goes on, but I don't want it to be blank to start. Send me a picture of your crab(s) and a testimonial for any of our foods or...

Im not arguing that they don't need some but this recent trend in saying copper sulfate is okay scares me. How much they need has not fully been established, but literature for crustaceans does exist, and its not very much before it becomes toxic. (See World Aquaculture Society Crustacean Nutrition)...

About copper sulfate: In the sulfate form it is added as an antifungal, not a nutritional supplement. Sulfate is digested too fast for it to really be okay. It will spike their levels once they eat it. Who knows how much is really in the food, but the safety range is very small. When people eat, our...

All the research is summed up in a sticky in the food and water section... Read the comments for exact % and such. I should know, I read the scientific articles and co-wrote the summany here.

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This site says it has pesticide purposes.

I am sorry, but I forget the specific thing it does, because I have been inactive on the forum that I talked to the botanist on my account was deleted.

Phew, Im glad I caught this thread. First off in the US it is NOT illegal to exclude ingredients in foods. It goes by a state by state basis, there are national standards, but not laws. However, companies usually comply with all states in order to save money on labeling, why would they bother to pay...

dehyrating without strict temprature regulations reduces vitamin C and A.

Actually pinkies would really mimic their wild "vulture" tendencies. I would never feed them though. (bleh)

Pretty much any crab you buy is going to have PPS, unless you get them from the crabbage patch. Sounds like you are doing well. I am veg and my protein sources are just my kibbles I make, broccoli, snap peas, spinach, shimp, bloodworms and plankton. Hermits really need lean animal protein though, ma...

"1. It does not compensate for where a crab is in their molt cycle. Often you must do diet enhancement, alteration to aid pre and post molt crabs." There should probably be a note for this. "2. It doesn't deal with the issues of a crab not eating offered foods. What happens if your servings of Zx ri...

Here is the pyramid science. According to crustacean nutrition hermit crabs need <15% fat about 40% protein and the rest carbs, with up to 35% fiber. Optional foods are the "random foods." Vinegar, honey, molasses, they are good treats or even PPS reducers, but not nutritionally needed or significan...