Cheap crab protein?

[lemonade2]

What is a rather cheap protein that crabs go nuts over?

[CallaLily]

Eggs. Dried mealworms - check the wild bird feed section for bigger bags at a better price than those smaller cans in the reptile section.

[lemonade2]

Eggs. Dried mealworms - check the wild bird feed section for bigger bags at a better price than those smaller cans in the reptile section.

I do have dried mealworms, but I feel like they are getting bored of it and want something that's not dried.

[Kleinerhejhog]

Mine seem to like dried baby shrimp better than mealworms.

[wodesorel]

Ask to buy 2 shrimp at the grocery store - you'll feel silly, but it'll be around 60 cents and if you come home, chop it into tiny meal sized pieces (for 2 or 3 crabs, one big shrimp would be 6 or more meals) and freeze it, it'll last for a month or longer.

[Kleinerhejhog]

Haha, I asked for just one and they did look at me funny, but I told them what it was for and they didn't charge me for it.

[soilentgringa]

Yeah the Sprouts by my house doesn't charge for a single shrimp either because it doesn't register on their scales.

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[Kleinerhejhog]

Yep, that's where I was.

[lemonade2]

I managed to steal a couple shrimp from our fried rice meal today before they were cooked. Would the crabs eat the shrimp raw, or would it being cooked be better for them?

[soilentgringa]

Raw is fine. The smellier the better lol.

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[hthecvt]

Peanut butter!

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[glacier44]

nut butters
shrimp (especially with the exo still on!)
crab
Egg (hardboiled or scrambled in a tiny bit of organic coconut oil)
Whatever meat you might be cooking up for supper but BEFORE you put any seasonings/additives on it
Nuts- I put them in whole and ground- they eat them both ways. Figure out which way your crabs prefer.

Frozen fish food cubes... BUT they are the ones that are ONLY and single ingredient: Bloodworms, brine shrimp, krill, baby shrimp, Silversides

Freeze-dried fish foods... again should only have the ONE ingredient- no preservatives or anything else.
Krill, baby shrimp, bloodworms, daphnia etc...

An easy way to do it is each payday buy a new type. Less hit to your pocket book than getting them all at once, and they last a LONG time because you're not feeding all of them ever single day.