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Tonys Hermits · Post by **Tonys Hermits** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 5:05 pm

Can I feed my hermit crabs these fish flakes

Geranium · Post by **Geranium** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 10:32 pm

These are the ingredients I found for it online. It does not have the big no no's but I do have some concerns about the sorbitol (it is a sugar substitute), also not sure about the zinc, ferrous or cobalt. I would wait for crabber85 to give an opinion before giving.Fish Meal, Dried Yeast, Ground Brown Rice, Shrimp Meal, Wheat Gluten, Feeding Oat Meal, Fish Oil, Potato Protein, Dehulled Soybean Meal, Soybean Oil, Algae Meal, Sorbitol, Lecithin, Monobasic Calcium Phosphate, Ascorbic Acid (Source of Vit. C), Yeast Extract, Inositol, Niacin, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate, Riboflavin-5-Phosphate (Source of Vit. B2), A-Tocopherol-Acetate (Source of Vit. E), D-Calcium Pantothenate, Thiamine Mononitrate (Source of Vit. B1), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Source of Vit. B6), Vitamin A Palmitate (Source of Vit. A), Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Source of Vit. K), Biotin, Cyanocobalamin (Source of Vit. B12), Cholecalciferol (Source of Vit. D3), Manganese Sulfate Monohydrate, Zinc Sulfate Monohydrate, Ferrous Sulfate Monohydrate, Cobalt Nitrate Hexahydrate.Also note, you want to feed a variety of foods. You cannot feed them just one dried food and have them be healthy.

Crabber85 · Post by **Crabber85** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 7:34 am

I looked it up as well and it appears the product has been slightly reformulated or the ethoxyquin has been hidden using an alternate generic name...I'm still going to go no on this because we do know that Ferrous sulfate can be an issue with long term exposure even if your only giving it twice a week it will still build up in the crabs body over the course of weeks, months or even years and can have some pretty significant side effects on the poor crabs.I've got a bottle of Tetra-Min from last year that I feed my fish and it still has the ethoxyquin listed...

Tetra4CClyPtus · Post by **Tetra4CClyPtus** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 8:04 am

Yea I agree with crabber85 commercialist people can lie on the nutrition and ingredients list not listing the additive and continue to put in the additive. I am also that skeptical about commercial foods so I read all the labels first before everything. If I see the ingredient , then it's no buy!!