HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I wonder if you made Jello with a natural sweetener, and let it get kind of firm if that would be ok to feed the crabs??? anyone got any ideas???

i still don't believe jello would be good because we don't even fully know what goes into jello

Jello is just natural collagen from bones and things. It's not pleasant to think about but it is totally natural. (And really a good thing because bits that would be tossed are being used for another purpose.) Plain unsweetened and unflavored gelatin would not hurt the crabs.

However, crabs don't need natural sugars straight up like that. Fruit does contain sugar but t's in conjunction with heaps of fiber, which is important.

wodesorel wrote:Jello is just natural collagen from bones and things. It's not pleasant to think about but it is totally natural. (And really a good thing because bits that would be tossed are being used for another purpose.) Plain unsweetened and unflavored gelatin would not hurt the crabs.

However, crabs don't need natural sugars straight up like that. Fruit does contain sugar but t's in conjunction with heaps of fiber, which is important.

Has anyone here ever boiled/baked a whole chicken or boiled any kind of meat bones for soup? The "jelly-like" substance left in the pan is collagen from the bones, joints, and skin. It's meat flavoured "jello," and it's very nourishing!"

It's got to be organic and hopefully free-range for the crabbies.

If you don't cook, you can use Knox unflavoured gelatin...but I don't think it's organic or free-range:

http://www.knoxgelatine.com/basics.htm