HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I purchased Santastic brand sand the other day. Here are some pictures. It's nasty. It's dirty, it's dark and has some black pieces of rock in it. Please avoid buying it for your hermies!

Yes I agree I bought this one night out of desperation of nowhere being open and I have to agree, it took me forever to make it clean enough to use. It is possible but it took alot of washing.

Sounds like it might have been worth a trip to the beach for some decent sand!

If it weren't for the red tide I may have considered it. lol

I got my Fiddler crabs sand from Cablehead beach in PEI on our vacation. That stuff is amazing! I put some in with my hermits, and they loved it too! It is very fine grade, NO junk in it, and I got it way up on the side of a dune where the tide can't reach. No wonder it's so clean! I did not break laws getting the sand on the dune, though, as the entrance to beach goes over a dune. I got the sand off to the side, where no one had stepped (this beach at the max has about 5 people on it at any given time).

Mazel tov on your Bar Mitzvah!


Excellent find on the sand - maybe next time I'm down in Florida I'll take enough home in my bathing suit.

Thanks!

I used bags to hold the sand, but I figured out pretty fast that about 5kg of sand would not quite work well with a cheap Ziploc bag (the zipper completely came off and ripped). I ended up doubling all the bags (four of them) with more bags. Getting them in the car was a bit tricky!