HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I know I saw some where here about taking frozen mealworms and baking them before feeding to the hermies. Can this also be done with crickets?

At what temperature and how long should they be baked?

I never bake them. I've never even seen that suggestion, although you never know, the hermies might like their bugs toasted . I feed my hermies ZooMed's Can 'O Crickets/Worms/'Pillars. They like the crickets best.

I think this might have been one of my posts. I used to freeze insects to kill them and then bake them to dry them. But I switched to throwing them into boiling water because this kills them a lot faster than freezing. The boiled insects can be fed right away or can be frozen.

Can you boil WORMS STRAIGHT FROM YOUR YARD for them? If so, could you tell me how cause right now I could get about 20 worms.

I havbe never tried it but I would say yes. I bet crabs can eat worms.

I keep crickets for my tarantula, but they only have a lifespan of eight weeks. There was this old one dying of old age which I placed in the hermit crab tank because I have had luck with crickets in there (they lived long and bred). Sadly it died but what I noticed was in a matter of minutes a Straw came over to it and didn't eat it, but sort of "tasted" it. It sort of just brushed against the cricket and put its claw to its mouth. I decided to put the fresh dead cricket in the food bowl and it was gone in a day. I think crickets can be given without being baked, but I think it always depends on how it lived. If you get a cricket from outside I would definatley clean it but if it lived in a clean container with a good diet, then I think it would be okay.

We have crickets and mealworms for our Leopard Gecko and Fire Belly Frogs. I was looking at feeding those that grew to big fro these animals to the crabs. I've put live ones in the tat put they haven't been eaten yet.

I raise mealworms and crickets for my sugar gliders, bearded dragon, and hedgehog.

I've tried the freeze dried mealies with them 29c for a bunch at Petsmart, bu I haven't tried baking the live ones or freezing them..