HCA: Hermit Crab Association

anyone?
i feed them broccoli, cuttlebone, crab food as well

Popcorn is more a treat then anything else. There's very little nutrition value to popcorn. I like to dip all my popcorn into organic peanut butter oil and then sprinkle with some tasty mix of goodies. Crabbies LOVE that and oil is really good for them too. Lots of omega's and stuff in there.

Broccoli and cuttle bone are excellent additions to their diets. The more variety, the better I say. I don't know what your crab food is, but watch out for copper sulfate. Over long term periods it will definately kill your crabbies.

Have fun finding new things for them to try!

As BAB said, popcorn has little nutritional value alone. Drizzle some honey on it and then sprinkle cuttlebone or spirulina on it. That way the crabs can get some nutrition with it.

I've always thought that popcorn was necessary because of the cellulose. Very few crabbers have good sources of cellulose for their crabs and cellulose is supposed to help with the moult (I think ?). I offer popcorn at least twice a week and it is always demolished.

thanks everyone for your help


but wont honey on popcorn make it wither away

my crabs eat it almost every day

Honey on popcorn might make it shrink up a bit, it's like hot butter on popcorn for us humans, it just shrinks. It doesn't disappear.

hmm
well one carried it into its water bowl and it wasnt even pea sized anymore lol

Well in a water dish it would be like totally submerged, honey would just be drizzled on it, shouldn't have that big of an effect.

blarrrrgggg.
no it was pretty immediate
*dies*

I don't know if it's been mentioned, but you can also try putting a little olive oil and seasalt on the popcorn.

chanchanman wrote:blarrrrgggg.
no it was pretty immediate
*dies*

Hmm.. well if you only put a wee bit of honey on it it should be fine.