HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Today my crabbies are enjoying:

Wild caught sardines
Freeze dried organic bananas
Fresh coconut
Homegrown organic chamomile blossoms

With a lovely topping of:
Spirulina
Local organic honey
Sea salt

Let me know how it goes Calla! I'm really interested to see if your crabs like the radish leaves too.

I gave my hermies some fresh red clover today. First of the season!

Try number two for radish greens & stems was successful! My hermies definitely ate quite a bit of both the stems and leaves. Here's what I fed them: Coconut chunks Raw Asparagus Radish Leaves and Stems Crickets Banana The banana, coconut and radish were strewn about the tank, mostly eaten. The aspar...

I didn't know they could have those. Do your crabs seem to enjoy them? They were a first try for my hermies. They are an edible salad green for humans and I know they'll ignore them if they find them too spicy or otherwise not to their liking, so I thought I'd give them a shot. I fed the stems and ...

Yesterday: Bruised peach Scrambled egg with shell (cooked in coconut oil) Carrot tops A little bit of ground beef Today: Whole calendula flower Banana Honey Radish Greens Crickets *All foods are organic & additive free, I use raw local honey & local grass fed beef. My hermit crabs also have access t...

This is a favorite of my girls. Everything is organic, the salt used is Doc Wellfish's Aquarium Sea Salt, the water used in cooking is de-chlorinated and the cookware is non-metallic and lead-free. Hibiscus Oatmeal 2 Parts Water 1 Part Oats Sea Salt Dried Hibiscus Flowers Frozen Coconut Chunks Froze...

Thanks! That must be it.

Thanks!!!! I tried out some maple syrup for my guys last night and it is the only thing I have given them that has totally disappeared from the food bowl! I guess they like it! Thanks for the quick response!

I was just wondering if pure maple syrup (from pesticide-free trees) would be ok to give to hermies as a once in awhile treat. If they can have honey and they can eat maple leaves then I'm wondering if a little maple sugar would be ok. Anyone know?

I came back from a meeting and peeked in on Ginny to see how she was doing. She was hanging upside down from the top of the ISO!! I took her out and gently bathed her to get the excess sand off of her from all the digging. There's no way she could have molted, rested, ate her exo and hardened in one...

Ok so I got worried when it was suggested that Ginny might be pre-molt so I took her out to quickly inspect her exo. She was pretty crabby (if you'll excuse the overused pun) and somewhat agressive (really digging into my hand with her legs, pushing away while I was trying to look at her). I noticed...

Well I don't know exactly what you mean by "fingernails" but I looked at her legs and on the front two she has little "spikes" or "prongs" to help her climb I suppose and they are black but the actual tips of her legs aren't. Please let me know what you think. Oh and again if anyone can think of why...

Oh dear I hope that she's not getting ready to molt...I am so nervous about theri first molt....well and probably every molt but yeah...I am worried. If anyone else thinks she looks pre-molt please let me know! Also this is really random but all of the buttons and images on this site are now invisib...

Alright you all asked for pics. :) This is what I call "The Great Shell Swap: A Story by Ginny and Hermoine Narrated by their Mommy, DragonTear" Here is Ginny in her original shell. http://hermitcrabassociation.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10209/normal_Ginny.jpg Yesterday Ginny decided to try out the...

Oops...forgot to reply to this one other thing in my outrageously long reply:

They will try to escape, make sure the lid is on tight

Yeah, I have a dictionary sitting on top of the lid right now...just in case!!