Reassure a newbie...is my planned menu okay?

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Reassure a newbie...is my planned menu okay?

Post by fantasybookworm » Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:16 pm

To make it easier on myself to do a homemade diet, I decided to make up a 7-day menu so that I don't forget to vary their food daily & to try & make sure I have everything covered. I know a lot of people will also include bits of their own meals, but I'm HORRIBLE at feeding myself healthy foods (I much prefer feeding animals), so I can't depend on that! :lol:

In the supplements bowl, I plan to keep earthworm castings, calcium (ground bonemeal tablets), and a ground nut mix (almonds, cashews, and walnuts, along with some flaxseed & dried coconut).

In the dry foods bowl, I currently have some oak leaf pieces, an oak twig, and a dry ground seaweed supplement I bought from a seller I found on here (the oak things are from the same seller, as well as the earthworm castings). This bowl will also get any other wild-type foods like leaves, bark, acorns, flower blossoms, etc.

In the wet/fresh foods bowl, here's where I plan to vary the foods nightly or every other night based on this menu -

Day 1 - mutton, mealworms, blueberries, veggie 1
Day 2 - raw chicken, krill, raspberries, veggie 2, brown rice
Day 3 - shrimp, squid, peaches, veggie 1, raw honey
Day 4 - egg, spirulina/brine shrimp, mango, veggie 2, brown rice
Day 5 - raw duck, waxworms, blueberries, veggie 1, raw honey
Day 6 - raw fish, crickets, raspberries, peanut butter
Day 7 - bloodworms, krill, veggie 2, brown rice, coconut oil

Veggie 1 will be a finely chopped mix of corn, broccoli, peas, dandelion, and cilantro. Veggie 2 will be a finely chopped mix of carrots, peppers, squash, sweet potato, and parsley. Both mixes will be frozen into small cubes. The animal meats will be small amounts taken from my dog's meals, she gets a raw diet of 80/10/10 grinds (80% meat, 10% bone, 10% organs). The insects are all canned, and so is the shrimp. The krill, squid, bloodworms, and spirulina/brine shrimp are all frozen fish food. The veggies for the two veggie mixes are all organic (except for the squash, I believe), and the fruits are all frozen & organic. The peanut butter is organic & the only ingredient is peanuts.

I plan on changing the food every night or every other night, I'm not sure yet. Maybe every other for right now, since two are burrowed under the substrate anyway, and the other little one has a little hollow made for himself (so I'm not sure if he's preparing to burrow or not).

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Re: Reassure a newbie...is my planned menu okay?

Post by wodesorel » Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:29 pm

Mine generally don't like berries and they sit uneaten most of the time. Banana, apple, pear, coconut and oranges go over much better, and all of them freeze very well!
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Re: Reassure a newbie...is my planned menu okay?

Post by CallaLily » Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:05 am

I think your crabby diet sounds good.
wodesorel wrote:Mine generally don't like berries and they sit uneaten most of the time.
Really? We often have blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and strawberries that I share with them, fresh and dried. Mine eat them pretty well.


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Re: Reassure a newbie...is my planned menu okay?

Post by NeatHedgehog » Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:13 am

Regarding the berries, if they're whole they may not take much interest in them if the reaction to them is anything like how mine treat grapes. I have to peel / slice them to get anyone interested and then they will devour them.

Blackberries / raspberries / strawberries it might not matter so much since they don't have such a developed skin, like blueberries and grapes, though.

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Re: Reassure a newbie...is my planned menu okay?

Post by StarWarsHermitCrab » Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:08 am

wodesorel wrote:Mine generally don't like berries and they sit uneaten most of the time. Banana, apple, pear, coconut and oranges go over much better, and all of them freeze very well!
Have you tried giving them raspberries?
My hermit crabs love raspberries.
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Re: Reassure a newbie...is my planned menu okay?

Post by CallaLily » Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:46 am

It's funny how some crabs like a food, yet others ignore it completely. Each crab has their own tastes I guess, just like us. :)


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Re: Reassure a newbie...is my planned menu okay?

Post by fantasybookworm » Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:47 am

Thanks guys! :)

So far they haven't touched the berries, but that doesn't mean much yet, I think. Two have already burrowed, the third might have just done so, and the only they've touched was a little crabby cake I got when I ordered some other stuff from a seller. They were all being fed commercial food before, so I figure it might take them a little bit to catch on with whole foods once they come up!

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Post by wodesorel » Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:10 pm

I've tried dried and fresh berries of all sorts. They have absolutely no interest. Toss a whole (cut) orange in there though and it's gone by morning. :lol: They can be very weird about what they like!
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Post by StarWarsHermitCrab » Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:15 pm

Have you ever seen a hermit crab eat a lemon?
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Re: Reassure a newbie...is my planned menu okay?

Post by wodesorel » Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:44 pm

Mine pick at them, but not with much gusto. After a few days I pull them out and there is still a lot there. Same with limes.
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Re: Reassure a newbie...is my planned menu okay?

Post by StarWarsHermitCrab » Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:25 pm

I guess I'll try giving them a lemon and see what happens.
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