Home made coconut hide

Arkos · Post by **Arkos** » Mon Jul 05, 2021 6:18 pm

Small collander with some fake vines woven through the little openings would be kinda cool.

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HermieBingo · Post by **HermieBingo** » Mon Jul 05, 2021 6:22 pm

Good idea Arkos, but the colander would have to be somehow not metal/tin/whatever they make it out of. But I really like we’re your coming from!

Post by **wodesorel** » Tue Jul 06, 2021 8:57 am

My cocohuts were all DIYed with a rock and/or a hammer. Not exactly perfect looking but functional, and for $2 for a coconut at Walmart totally worth it. (I'm 37 and I am not allowed to play with power tools because hospital bills.

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HermitCrabCHICA · Post by **HermitCrabCHICA** » Tue Jul 06, 2021 9:30 am

I don't have coconut a lot. It sounds like cutting a cocohut is really hard! Is the coconut meat the white stuff inside? is it edible to crabbies and humans? ( srry dumb question)

HermieBingo · Post by **HermieBingo** » Tue Jul 06, 2021 9:45 am

As said earlier in topic: it is relatively hard to cut the coconut, yes it is the white stuff, yes it is definitely edible to humans (it is in the grocery store after all), and it is edible to hermit crabs.

Arkos · Post by **Arkos** » Tue Jul 06, 2021 9:47 am

Yeah I went through a few dremmel grinder wheels cutting the coconut in half and cutting/grinding the doorway

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HermieBingo · Post by **HermieBingo** » Tue Jul 06, 2021 9:51 am

Oomph. That’s got to cost you...

Motörcrab · Post by **Motörcrab** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 2:43 am

Having a good powerful battery powered drill and a hole drill bit will make short work of a coconut. A good hole bit will be about $20+ so if you are doing one or two coconuts it wouldn't be worth buying one just for coconuts. The main thing is to hold the coconut tight otherwise it will spin on you.

The hardest part is digging out the fresh meat. We offer that and the coconut water to the crabs. They seem to love the water in a tiny container, but it gets rancid overnight. If refrigerated it will stay good for a few weeks!

The meat can be dehydrated too. It takes a long time to dry, over 24 hours from our experience. If you don't dry it long enough it will start to mold after a few days.

HermitCrabCHICA · Post by **HermitCrabCHICA** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 10:30 am

How do you dehydrate things without a dehydrator and without it molding first?

Motörcrab · Post by **Motörcrab** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 3:00 pm

That I'm not sure because we use a dehydrator. You should be able to research how pretty easily.

Arkos · Post by **Arkos** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 7:12 pm

Thats a fantastic idea. I've got several metal stepped uni-bits, should work for my next couple coconuts I imagine

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