HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I agree with Rawrgeous, as well as the others on here. Not sure where you got off on the personal attacks. But we do take pride in knowing what is good & proper for our crabs around here. So any "agenda" is just good ol knowledge of hermit crab tendencies from their natural habitats. Please take ca...

http://hermitcrabassociation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=92555 This is a link to our commercial food guide. It lists all the safe commercial foods we know of, as well as the unsafe. It also highlights on the harmful ingredients to look for in commercial foods. :) Yeeeeees, and when I started thi...

Nate the great wrote: Tetrafauna Hermit crab meal
Tetrafauna hermit crab cakes

All Living Things Variety diet

Jurassidiet hermit crab formula

Crab Island fruit & flower crab food

Could someone please make sure these foods are on the appropriate safe/unsafe lists, please?

Thank you.

I did not post this question to give you a platform for your extremists' agenda.

I posted it to get a question answered.

I also wanted to get someone to add the foods to either the safe or unsafe list. Could someone please do so?

Does anyone know if Zoomed's Bearded Dragon food is okay for hermies?

What about the one from T-Rex?

As I said in my DM to you, I can take them in. I live near Manassas and will drive anywhere in the area to pick them up. Nate I'm hoping to find someone to take my 6 crabs ASAP. *I live in Chesapeake, VA *Can travel to Chesapeake, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Suffolk. Other surrounding cities are negoti...

Do they have to be moved downstairs? Can't you ask the carpet guys to shift them from one side of the room to the other?

A 20G is not terribly heavy; two husky guys can shift it.

No, unfortunately as the pieces can get caught in a shell and puncture the crab's abdomen. I'm going to link our substrate guide as it will list the most common materials/ brands used. http://hermitcrabassociation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=92542 Is there any evidence that this has actually hap...

After a wait of months and months I finally got Ecuadorian hermmit crabs. :banana: I was driving by an independent pet store and stopped in just to see if they had crabs. I wouldn't normally do business with them (they work with puppy mills and lock puppies in small cages) but this time they had E's...

what is everyone's thought on dehydrated feed? i happened to see an omnivore mix where i work that only had things crabs can eat so i figured id try it. (after some opinions hahaha). There's a whole host of foods which are safe for hermies and can be found at major pet stores. I use the vegetarian ...

I couldn't figure out why, every night, one particular suction cup holding up some netting kept coming off. A few days ago I figured it out. One of my crabs climbed up and started clawing at the suction cup until it, the netting and the crab fell to the ground. The crab made a pretty impressive thu...

You need to expand the bricks first by letting them soak in a bucket of (treated) water. Once the bricks have grown in volume, dump some sand, and then some EE, in the aquarium and mix by hand. Repeat until you reach the desired depth. Don't went the sand; the EE will be wet enough and you can alway...

Here's why copper sulfate is bad news:
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/ex ... e-ext.html

None of these are worth keeping, Nate, as they all contain either copper sulfate or ethoxyquin, preservatives unsafe for hermit crabs. The All Living Things variety diet does not contain those ingredients, so far as I can tell from reading the tiny print on the label. It's also not on any of the li...

I need help identifying whether the food I have is safe and or good. I have taken in rescue hermies from a couple owners over the past couple weeks, and tonight I started clearing out the supplies that came with the crabs. I have 5 different types of commercial hermit crab food, and I need to know w...