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What Everyone Should Know When Buying A Land Hermit Crab
[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Land hermit crabs are not easy to look after. For the Basic They Need
A 2ft vivarium with heat lamp or mat. 2 Water BOWLS A Different Food Offered Every Few Days(They Love Penut Butter) They Eat ANYTHING They Need A Separate Tank For Molting With 6 Inches Of Wet Sand They Like To Dig So Have About An Inch of Sand/Coconut Fibre In Their Tank A Few Facts On Hermit Crabs... Hermit Crabs Like To Live With Another Crab As In The Wild They Live In Packs Of 100 Or More. In Capivity They Live For 30 Years Or More So Don't Under Estimate How Much Of A Commitment Their Going To Be. In Their Native Country They Are Used To Temperatures Of 21 Degrees Or More And Humidity Of 70%-80% Hope You Find This Information Useful Message Back ![]() |
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Re: What Everyone Should Know When Buying A Land Hermit Crab
Just a little extra advice
hope you don't mind emileeAll though hermies are scavengers in the wild, in captivity they need a really good diet to help them survive molting, they should be offered a varied diet as they get bored, also offer lots of different food each day. In their tank there should be enough sand for your biggest hermie to bury down 3x its size, its not a wise idea to move your hermies when molting unless you really know the signs, and in lots of cases they don't always give a sign so always make sure there is enough substrate for them to molt in their tank. The sand should not be wet but be of sandcastle consistency, they bury down and make under sand caves, if the sand is too wet or too dry they can't do this.
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