HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Didn't see on safe food list, but I was wondering if the meat, skin, and/or scales from bluegills is safe for my purple pinchers. I've had them 5 or 6 years now & they are still growing.

Thanks for any responses

Jasonmom

Generally if the fish is safe for you, it’s also safe for the crabs.


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Thanks JoeHermits for your response.


I need to add blue gill eggs to my question.
Where they were caught is clean water.

Has anyone else fed them fish they had caught?


Thanks
JasonMom

My father is a fisherman. I have fed my crabs fish that he has caught out of the ocean. You need to just be mindful of where they are fished from. For example, there are quite a few lakes and rivers that are near power plants or that are heavily populated by boats or that are known by us locals to be heavily polluted. I wouldn't feed my hermits anything from those areas. People that aren't from my area probably wouldn't know that.