Pet shop with hermit crabs(Let me hear ur opinions)

Crabbzymagnus · Post by **Crabbzymagnus** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 7:42 am

Hey everyone,i just got back from the pet shop in singapore,where i bought one of my ruggies,I want to hear all your opinions/thoughts about it,i have a picture of the crab i bought from there and a few pics of the "crabitat" in the pet store

️the crab i bought!
And now for the pet store:

I apologise if the pics of the pet shop are blurry,i had to take those while the shop keeper wasn't looking,The price of the crabs are a little insane,(medium:$25,large:$35)and there is a sign that says no touching the crabs,they didn't refill both salt and water bowls!

and they fed the crabs with the same kind of crab food everyday!

,They would sprinkle the food around the sand,this is the commercial food they use

I appreciate them adding a little hide,an inch of sand and not using painted shell

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Tell me your opinions of this pet store!

MuseCrazy · Post by **MuseCrazy** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:58 am

The food isn't the worst so that's not too bad. The tank can't be humid all open like that. Looks like a decent amount of sand, it's actually better than most petcos/petsmarts here in the states.

YYWW · Post by **YYWW** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 12:12 pm

The sand looks very dry. Like just dry sand. Can you tell if the sand is calcium sand? The crabs' gills might be dried out from dry air, so unless they are sold shortly after harvesting, i would expect them to have gill damage to a possibly terminal degree. The food doesn't look that bad.

Crabbers unite!!!

Post by **wodesorel** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 1:44 pm

Is the pet store climate controlled? What is the humidity and temperature like? We have crabbers in the Philippines who don't have to give any thought to heat or humidity because they're already living where the crabs are native. If the hermits are found in Singapore and you're living where the conditions are similar to the beaches where they live, and there is no air conditioning used that would affect temperature or the moisture in the air, then it would be fine for them to be like that.

Crabbzymagnus · Post by **Crabbzymagnus** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:17 pm

YYWW wrote:The sand looks very dry. Like just dry sand. Can you tell if the sand is calcium sand? The crabs' gills might be dried out from dry air, so unless they are sold shortly after harvesting, i would expect them to have gill damage to a possibly terminal degree. The food doesn't look that bad.

Your right,The sand was quite dry,however the sand isn't calci sand,it looks like normal sand to me,they are sold in the shopping mall so i guess the high humidity disapears...

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Crabbzymagnus · Post by **Crabbzymagnus** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:21 pm

wodesorel wrote:Is the pet store climate controlled? What is the humidity and temperature like? We have crabbers in the Philippines who don't have to give any thought to heat or humidity because they're already living where the crabs are native. If the hermits are found in Singapore and you're living where the conditions are similar to the beaches where they live, and there is no air conditioning used that would affect temperature or the moisture in the air, then it would be fine for them to be like that.

The pet shop is in an air conditioned mall,I originally bought my crabs from another shop that was open aired because singapore is 27-32c all year round and we are always 85% humidity cause we are near the equator,I like the open aired pet shop is better(where is got my first 2 ruggies)as it's substrate is moist and the staff are much more friendly.The staff there know much more about hermit crabs too,their the ones that told me to join this forum.but i only bought the crab that was at the air conditioned pet shop cause it was near my house,the other pet shop is very far....

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Post by **aussieJJDude** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:31 pm

If anything, I say thats a rather good tank for a pet store.
Ok, before all you you think I have gone mad, let me explain myself.
The crabs that are in there only wears natural shells and has more natural shells to offer. I never really seen a store that doesn't have at least 10 crabs without painted shells. But maybe the painted shell fad isn't really "popular" in Singapore? If there was water in the water dishes, they would make the ideal water dish as they look pretty deep.
It is very common for a pet store to provide only commercial food, after all thats what they would stock and they can use it for a discount instead of paying money to get natural foods. While looking at the ingredients, I didn't really observe anything alarming and think that would be a pretty good food mix to feed your crabbies if you going away on holiday - for example.
The sand base is deeper than most pet store i ever seen! This is great for the hermies that want to dig down a bit and just chill without them moulting in the tank - as it looks to me that they could dig down but still not far enough where they would be lost forever.
Personally, I think all they really need to work on is getting the heat and humidity up to par - as Crabbzymagnus said it is a shopping centre so it probably would be air conditioned - and actually getting some water into those water bowls.

It is certainly better than most shops - ok, I lied all - in Melbourne... Well, that I been to.

Crabbzymagnus · Post by **Crabbzymagnus** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:54 pm

aussieJJDude wrote:If anything, I say thats a rather good tank for a pet store.
Ok, before all you you think I have gone mad, let me explain myself.
The crabs that are in there only wears natural shells and has more natural shells to offer. I never really seen a store that doesn't have at least 10 crabs without painted shells. But maybe the painted shell fad isn't really "popular" in Singapore? If there was water in the water dishes, they would make the ideal water dish as they look pretty deep.
It is very common for a pet store to provide only commercial food, after all thats what they would stock and they can use it for a discount instead of paying money to get natural foods. While looking at the ingredients, I didn't really observe anything alarming and think that would be a pretty good food mix to feed your crabbies if you going away on holiday - for example.
The sand base is deeper than most pet store i ever seen! This is great for the hermies that want to dig down a bit and just chill without them moulting in the tank - as it looks to me that they could dig down but still not far enough where they would be lost forever.
Personally, I think all they really need to work on is getting the heat and humidity up to par - as Crabbzymagnus said it is a shopping centre so it probably would be air conditioned - and actually getting some water into those water bowls.
It is certainly better than most shops - ok, I lied all - in Melbourne... Well, that I been to.

Well your right in all the hermit crab stores i'v visited they all didn't have painted shells!I'v only visited 3 so far since there aren't many shops in singapore that sell hermit crabs..

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Knibitz · Post by **Knibitz** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:42 pm

pretty sure that food is meant for marine crabs, not our land dwelling babies, but as others have said, I don't see it as anything awful.
If they would get water in the dishes I'd give this a silver star. They'd get gold if they had gauges that could prove good humidity and temp or a lid+gauges. but it's much better than A LOT of what I see in the US.

stevenc · Post by **stevenc** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 4:44 am

In Singapore, this is one of the best setups I have seen so far.
I have seen shops put all the crabs in a small pail without sand and with about half inch of water

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Crabbzymagnus · Post by **Crabbzymagnus** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 5:17 am

stevenc wrote:In Singapore, this is one of the best setups I have seen so far.
I have seen shops put all the crabs in a small pail without sand and with about half inch of water

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Wow,Where is that place?The set-up of the pet shop i visited may be good,but the price is a lil bit off

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Crabbzymagnus · Post by **Crabbzymagnus** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 4:11 am

Just realized this is under the wrong category can an admin or someone please help to move this to the D.I.Y and store reviews section?Thanks alot

HCA: Hermit Crab Association