CRAB and METAL QUESTION

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:49 pm

Hi, I wanted to give my tank a really good cleaning. I washed and strained the sand and then cooked the moisture out of the sand on the stove top. I did this in a metal pan and am wondering if crabs are so sensitive to metal that this will harm them. Can anybody give me any advice?

Thanks, very much

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:51 pm

I don't think this can harm your hermies. I know alot of people here use the foil baking pans to bake their sand.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:00 pm

Thanks so much for your reply!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 5:56 pm

Tammi'scrabs wrote:I don't think this can harm your hermies. I know alot of people here use the foil baking pans to bake their sand.

I dont think that the metal pan can transfer whatever is toxic to the crabbies through sand either, and metal being toxic to crabbies only happens when the metal is holding the water, right?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:19 pm

Its the rust that happens to the metal that makes it bad, or so I'm told

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:09 pm

Like Vckms said, i think it's the rust issue. On the Hermit-Crabs.com site they even say that you can use chicken wire to make climby things for in the tank. i am assuming because it doesn't rust. i did have a few small pieces of chicken wire in my old tank for about 8 months or so and it did not rust, my crabs loved it for climbing and i had no ill effects to the crabs for having that metal in there.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:53 pm

if it helps, I worry about rust, that can contaminate the san, so I use my turkey roaster...it has a ceramic coating on it so the metal doen't actually touch the substrate....of course the foil bake pans are good too, they do not oxidize...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:37 pm

With the chicken wire - I know it does not rust, but what about the corrosion that can happen with all the moisture?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:01 am

cdeff wrote:With the chicken wire - I know it does not rust, but what about the corrosion that can happen with all the moisture?

That's why I use "Gutter Guard", it's flexible, and plastic, and a little bit smaller mesh than chicken wire.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:35 pm

nothing happened to my "chicken type wire" in my crabitat. they climbed on it and it was fine with the moisture.

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CRAB and METAL QUESTION

CRAB and METAL QUESTION

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