HCA: Hermit Crab Association

For meat, cooked and uncooked are equally safe. Raw would be closer to what they naturally find in the wild but not necessary. You can definitely feed cooked if you're more comfortable with that. For the crushing it will depend on your individual crabs preferences. My crabs have always been super l...

I try to give our crabs a good variety of fresh food, and the good news is that they seem to enjoy certain things a lot — corn on the cob gets eaten and they seem to like plucking the corn out (loose corn doesn't have the same level of interest) and cherries. Their favorite thing seems to be popcorn...

Thanks for the replies. I'm pleased to report that they are coming out slightly more. And we added a hanging coconut shell with a ladder, and they immediately stopped burrowing and started hanging out in the swing. So, maybe they're just crabs that like fads. One day it's burrowing, the next day it'...

We got two new crabs about 10 days ago (I've discussed one's serious penchant for tunneling in another thread) and they're very shy. The larger of the two crabs spent the first two days out and perched on top of things and the smaller spent her first few days hunkered down in a cave. Now the smaller...

Hey - I'm very new to crabs! We've had ours for about a week -- 30 gallon tank, for two crabs... multiple caves, bushes, salt and fresh water and religiously keeping the humidity above 80 percent... Both crabs are very shy during the day, but one seems obsessed with digging—he's dug very large holes...