reptile & turtle foods good for land hermit crab??

tonycoenobita · Post by **tonycoenobita** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:12 pm

i have a question that there are many reptile & turtle foods in the pet shops , but they are good for land hermit crabs.

I have not tried any of these food, I do not know it is harmful or not as reptile, turtle and land hermit crabs are different type of animal.

But a Tawanese people said that he used turtle "Calcium powder" to provide calcium need for his crab and reptile "vitamins".......is is good or not??

Willow · Post by **Willow** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:50 pm

Calcium powder for reptiles is fine to use, and I will sometimes use reptile vitamins for the hermies, too. But I wouldn't feed them most commercial turtle or reptile foods, because most of them have harmful preservatives, such as ethoxyquin. If they don't contain any harmful ingredients, I think you could give turtle or reptile food to the hermies sometimes, as part of a balanced and varied diet.

tonycoenobita · Post by **tonycoenobita** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:51 am

What other kinds of harmful ingredients should be avoided?

Jedediah · Post by **Jedediah** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:36 am

Most of the commercial turtle and herp foods contain waste products because it's cheap. "Plant and animal by-products" (I think that's the term) is just a nice way of saying: we put anything in that food that we couldn't use for anything else.