Hi everyone! Believe it or not ... i've just discovered this forum after more than a year of having my own land hermit crabs.

Just quickly ... does anyone knows where Beta Discovery from 1U have moved? I need to get the crab food : HAGEN CRABWORX. My hermits won't eat other pellets except for this. Just a few days ago, i tried feeding them with my cat food from Blackwood. Am also feeding them fruits and others at same time. Please help...anyone ... much appreciated!

Let's see if i can upload the pics here. I've not done this before ... duhhh



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Hi Onscreen! Thanks for your reply! Yeayyy! This is good news ... i shall rush down there tonight and 'borong' all the Crabworx before they move again. Will look into other brands you mentioned.

Sadly, last night ... my biggest hermit named Zulu in the pic above (with stripe shell) died. Not too sure why, he was eating well and all. This is sooooo stressful for me. I bought Zulu from Betta Discovery last year.

Oh yeah! The sand? Nope .. it's not Reptisand. It's PEE DEE sand ... <LOL>. We went to PD and brought back 3 pails of beach sand. We even brought back about 20 hermit crabs!!! Need to go to PD again and replenish new sands. My hermits just love their crabitat. I've had about 5 crabs molted in that substrate. I've also bought beach sands from shops selling marine fishes before getting PD sand.

Onscreen ... is Reptisand good or bad?

Ciaoooo and hope to hear fr you again...

Hi Blitzboy!

Thanks for your thoughts. No one likes dirty sands filled with rubbish ... I bet my crabs would not appreciate that as well. I don't think i would have the guts to scoop the dirty, smelly sands and drive 2 hours home with the sand.

I've not read / heard about aquarium fan or giving some breeze to my crab. Will do more research, but thanks for your shared info.

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Added on May 19, 2008, 5:58 pmHi Prophet007!

Thanks for asking ... answering to your query:
1. I have 2 water dish, both filled only with SPRITZER Mineral Water (not drinking water).
2. One dish with salt and the other without.
3. Most of the time, the water dish with salt would finish first without fail!

Here's a picture of my crabitat with their dishes.

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Added on May 19, 2008, 6:09 pmHmmm ... somehow, i do not agree. My hermit crabs drink more of salt water than freshwater. Their salt water dish always, without fail dries up first.
Maybe it's just my crabs

By the way, any food suggestion for land hermit crabs are most welcomed. I'm running out of ideas to feed them . Over the years, i've been feeding them:

1. Apple
2. Banana
3. Papaya
4. Honey
5. Weetbix !!!
6. Corn (cooked ... from corn in the cup seller)
7. Fresh grated coconut
8. Dried shrimps



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9. Hagen CrabWorX <<< need to get them a.s.a.p
10.Bread <<< they like toasted bread, not burned toast .. but just toast

However, you feed them corn that cooked from the corn in a cup seller,
normally cooked with butter (oily substance) not advisable to feed the hermit crabs oily food.
Land Hermit crabs breath with modified gills that can breath air when remain moist. Oily substance
can kill it, if it got into the gill chamber, mixed with the moisture inside, due to disrupted breathing.
>> I knew i would have comments on this! FYI, i always asked for just steamed corn ... no added Marjerin/butter or salt. Just plain corn.

The cut the corn out into cilinder shaped blocks. You should see how the hermit crab pluck the corn from the stem
>> Interesting idea! I should try this today. THANKS!

Looks like you even have a tray for them to select the empty shells. More like a wardrobe for them.
>> Hahaha ... yeah! something like that. But it could only last couple of days. Few days later, all the shell submerged under the sand. And i had to pick up each shell, dust off the sand and place them back again. sometimes, the shells are even deeper under the sand.

This post has been edited by hyrl: May 20 2008, 05:44 PM