HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Tonight my hermies are getting:

Main Dish:

Romaine Lettuce
Broccoli Bits
Cauliflower Bits and Leaves
Shrimp Tails
Cilantro
Cucumber
Unseasoned Chicken
Carrot Bits Sprinkled on the top of the salad

Side Dish:

Mushed up Banana
Crushed, Plain Oatmeal
Apples
Raisins

More may be added... depends on what I get from the store

Tonight feast:

Shrimp tails
Cactus
Oranges

My babies were having some grated carrots and green pepper with some boiled shrimp and a dessert of some cut-up apple chunks. yummy yummy. They love the apple best.

an orange slice, corn and brine shrimp

Frozen krill thawed and sprinkled with sea salt water and green, brown and red seaweed. On the side is a slive of mango. It's all sprinkled with a dried kibble.

Mine was getting one dish dry FMR food, one dish dry flower and fruit hermit crab food, one dish with fresh food: frozen mix of corn, broccoli, red pepper defrosted with some fresh pineapple. I will instantly remove the FMR food...is it really that bad for them? Yesterday they had cooked shrimp on a bed of lettuce and avocado. I always gave the dry foods separately along with my fresh food, but after reading this maybe I should stop.

What we had for dinner... hehe... and a little added...

(I used dechlor sea salt water for all their stuff... I just separated out a little bit before I made up ours and then did the crabbies dinner separate at the end.)

boiled cod (SORRY Bundy! )
steamed corn
boiled potatoes (we had mashed potatoes...)
sprinkled with Epicurean kibble
sprinkled with a dry kibble I mixed up (lots of cuttlebone)

Took all of 5 min to have 3 E's stuffing their little faces. Then as I was walking away 2 PP's came over and pushed the E's out. Hehe... I have two dishes in there... dunno WHY they insist on fighting over one.

Tonights menu is:
Dried shrimp with Dried hermie treats in bowl#1
fresh mango and apple in bowl #2
dry cornmeal and a few cherrios in bowl #3
Cuttlebone on the side

Here’s a new recipe that my crabs really went for tonight:
1. Spread bottom of dish with tahini paste (sesame seed paste)
2. Mix chopped shrimp and egg scrambled with spirulina powder, add to dish
3. Mix marigold petals and yellow bell pepper, add to dish
4. Sprinkle everything with dried, crushed coconut

Sweet potato baby food with NaRnAR's kibble sprinkled on top!

I wanted a lot of fresh foods in the mix tonight because I’m going on vacation for a few days, so here’s what they got:

Salmon, silversides, krill, apple, scrambled egg with spirulina, green peppers, sunflower sprouts, papaya, crushed hemp seeds, crushed flax seeds and sea salt.

I put it all into a jar, shook it up together and put it into the food dish. It smells awful, it looks awful…so of course the crabs love it.

Laura B, where did you get that nice kidney-shaped food dish?

It's this one: (Food Dish) from PetCo. They work really well for food.

Aussie Crabber wrote:Laura B, where did you get that nice kidney-shaped food dish?

I can't speak for Laura, but I found one at our Petco (ours is green). That's in the states though.

Hang on one minute...here we go!

Dish from Petco

I don't know if they ship internationally, but maybe this'll help you locate a similar product?

EDIT: Heh...great minds and all that! You were just a smidge quicker with the "linky" stuff.

Thanks guys! I'll get one somehow