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No, they need distilled water to drink. They also need salt water to harden their exoskeleton. NEVER use table salt it will burn their lungs! Use SEA salt instead because its found in the ocean
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What should you put water in for your hermit crab?
Put the water in a hermit crab pool from a pet store, but make sure if you use tap water to get a Purifier Liquid to kill those nasty chemicals.
How do you use the hermit in a sentence?
I saw a hermit crab on the beach.
How a hermit crab breathes?
Hermit crabs use gills to breath.
Which crab has a soft shell and use other shells as homes?
A hermit crab.
How does a hermit crab catch there food?
hermit crabs use their claws to grab food
Should you give your land hermit crab a bath?
yes you can. only you have to use very very shallow water!
What tools do you use to take care of hermit carbs?
You will need a tank, substrate, a food dish, 2 water dishes, ( for fresh and salt water) hermit crab food, a place for them to hide in.
What type of water can you put in a hermit crab cage?
You should put distilled water and and sea salt water in your crab's tank. It shouldn't be deep enough for the crab to submerge itself in, but they have to be able to get out or they can drown. Hermit crabs need distilled water because the clorine in tap water burns their modified gills and sofacates them, same with table salt. use SEA salt.
How big of a tank do you neeed for a water hermit crab?
Well for the safety of your hermit crabs i would use the basic rule of 1gallon of tank space per hermit crab..... so you could get any size you want.... but lets say you had a 10gallon tank so you could have 10 hermit crabs in the same tank.
When a hermit crab is about to lay eggs can you use hermit crab bathing salt water?
It shouldn't be about to lay eggs. (I am assuming you have hermit crabs in a aquarium.) It has been proven that they need an ocean to lay eggs and therefore cannot lay eggs in captivity. Even in zoos they can't lay eggs.
Can you put miniature toys with hermit crabs?
If you mean will it kill the crab, no. However the hermit crab probably won't be able to use most toys. Depending on what it is.
What do you spray with on a land hermit crabsalt water or tap water?
Never give/spray your hermit crab with tap water. It constricts their gills and WILL kill them. Use bottled or distilled water, you can also buy hermit crab water conditioner at your local pet store for about 3 dollars. It will give instructions on how much to put into the tap. Salt water is mostly for soaking, so just put some in a shallow bowl in your crabitat, as well as fresh water, and make sure that its shallow enough so the smallest crab won't drown but the biggest crab soak in it. Hope that helps! :)
