HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Which flowers and/or leaves are your hermie's favorites?

My crabs seem to greatly enjoy any leaves from the safe list that I've offered. I think petunias were a big hit bit I haven't had those in a while. Pansies, roses, honeysuckle. I've offered others but those are the ones standing out in my mind right now that the crabs seemed to enjoy.

favorites around here are pansies, peonies, lilacs, roses, fireweed.

Mine really like dandelions, roses, and petunias.

Pansies and roses. Rose of Sharon is a huge hit every year. The Fireweed (?) (the purple ones) flowers from Alaska Hermit are always gone as soon as they hit the bowl.

wodesorel wrote:The Fireweed (?) (the purple ones) flowers from Alaska Hermit are always gone as soon as they hit the bowl.

Like wodesorel's crabs, my guys consume the fireweed leaves first, even when I put them at the bottom of the leaf bowl ! They also love birch, oak, crabapple, raspberry and strawberry leaves but are not as keen on flowers (at least none of the ones I've tried thus far).