What can your hermit crab eat?

Answer 1

The best diet for a land hermit crab is basically what you feed yourself (with the exclusion of highly-processed foods and sugary snacks, of course). Land hermit crabs are omnivorous and therefore eat just about anything. You can feed them meat, fish, vegetables and fruit (yes even citrus fruit!). Crabs also like tannin-rich foods, such as oak leaves and tree bark. Before giving your crabs these things as food, make sure they are thoroughly cleaned by washing in water (no soap) and allowed to dry -- crabs like their leaves crunchy. Hermit crabs love try different foods. In fact a study found that they prefer to have a different food each time they eat. Of course, this isn't always possible, but you should offer your crab a variety of foods. Some other foods your crab should enjoy are: • Fruit, especially tropical fruits such as the crabs would find in their native habitat: mangoes, coconuts and papayas. Just be careful they don't get ahold of any fruit "pits." • Vegetables of all kinds • Meat. Make sure it is well-cooked and that there is no sauce or butter on the meat that could cause them problems. In particular, hermit crabs like to pick meat off of bones. They also enjoy steamed shrimp tails and any sort of dead crustacean. Yes, they are cannibals, it is a studied and proven fact. It is recommended that meat be put into the crabitat at night and removed in the morning to discourage flies and other, unwanted scavengers from visiting the crabitat. • Nuts, applesauce, raisins, trail mix, peanut butter, honey, cooked egg, cereal, crackers, washed grass, and popcorn are some of the miscellaneous favorites people have reported their crabs enjoying. • Dairy foods may be given to the crabs in small amounts and not too often. Some people notice their crabs are partial to 'junk food' such a corn chips, sugary cereals and pretzels. Though they may like these foods, they should of course be limited to occasional treats.

Answer 2

The best diet for a land hermit crab is basically what you feed yourself (with the exclusion of highly-processed foods and sugary snacks, of course). Land hermit crabs are omnivorous and therefore eat just about anything. You can feed them meat, fish, vegetables and fruit (yes even citrus fruit!). Crabs also like tannin-rich foods, such as oak leaves and tree bark.

Before giving your crabs these things as food, make sure they are thoroughly cleaned by washing in water (no soap) and allowed to dry -- crabs like their leaves crunchy. Hermit crabs love try different foods. In fact a study found that they prefer to have a different food each time they eat. Of course, this isn't always possible, but you should offer your crab a variety of foods. Some other foods your crab should enjoy are:

• Fruit, especially tropical fruits such as the crabs would find in their native habitat: mangoes, coconuts and papayas. Just be careful they don't get ahold of any fruit "pits."

• Vegetables of all kinds

• Meat. Make sure it is well-cooked and that there is no sauce or butter on the meat that could cause them problems. In particular, hermit crabs like to pick meat off of bones. They also enjoy steamed shrimp tails and any sort of dead crustacean. Yes, they are cannibals, it is a studied and proven fact. It is recommended that meat be put into the crabitat at night and removed in the morning to discourage flies and other, unwanted scavengers from visiting the crabitat.

• Nuts, applesauce, raisins, trail mix, peanut butter, honey, cooked egg, cereal, crackers, washed grass, and popcorn are some of the miscellaneous favorites people have reported their crabs enjoying.

• Dairy foods may be given to the crabs in small amounts and not too often. Some people notice their crabs are partial to 'junk food' such a corn chips, sugary cereals and pretzels. Though they may like these foods, they should of course be limited to occasional treats.

Answer 3

Pet hermit crabs in captivity eat lots of things like...

Meats (cooked)

Fruits(mostly bright like corn or carrots)

Veggies

Dairy(only feed them dairy after they molt to help them gain calsium)

Hermit crab food

Hope this helped you!

Answer 4

Your hermit crab can eat:

• shrimp
• sardines
• turkey
• chicken
• salmon
• fish flakes
• spirulina
• oatmeal
• granola
• nuts (almonds, pecans, walnuts, pistachios, peanuts, cashews)
• peanut butter
• wood
• leaves
• scrambled eggs
• organic baby food
• freeze dried shrimp
• naturally dried red seaweed algea
• chickpeas (a.k.a. garbanzo beans)
• kidney beans
• dulse (seaweed)
• alaria (seaweed)
• baby corn
• snowpeas
• hamburger
• coconut
• Fruits - both fresh and dried - such as papaya, strawberry, banana, grapes, Pears, apples, cantaloupe, mango, pineapple, pomegranate, apricot, peaches, nectarines, watermelon, blueberries, strawberries, kiwifruit
• apple sauce
• Hot Dogs (Beef)
• dried brine shrimp
• tuna
• saltine crackers (With little or no salt)
• red cabbage
• celery
• carrots
• plantains
• cereal (low sugar and salt)
• raisins
• parsley sprouts
• clover sprouts
• whole wheat bread
• popcorn (plain no salt or butter)
• dead drickets
• tropical fish
• pork
• cucumber
• unsalted potato chips
• rice (white, cooked)
• wakame (seaweed, reconstituted)
• nori
• calcisand
• dates
• boiled egg shells
• cantaloupe
• eggplant
• green beans
• corn on the cob
• crushed dog kibble
• oyster crackers
• algae wafers
• krill
• Dairy foods are not longer considered unsafe

• Alfalfa
• Amaranth (Ancient grain - calcium)
• Apple and natural, unsweetened apple sauce
• Barley(calcium)
• Bell peppers (red, yellow, orange, green or purple)
• Bilberries/Huckleberries
• Blackberry leaves
• Broccoli and leaves
• Brown rice, soy, wheat or 7 grain cereal
• Brown rice
• Carnation flowers
• Carrot tops (vit. E)
• Cauliflower and leaves
• Chamomile flowers
• Chard
• Chicken bones
• Chicken, cooked and unseasoned
• Cholla wood (chitin)
• Cilantro
• Clover blossoms and leaves
• Cod liver oil
• Collards (calcium)
• Cooked eggs
• Cork bark
• Cornmeal
• Cuttlefish bone, powdered
• Dandelion flowers, leaves and roots
• Eggshells
• Extra-virgin olive oil
• Fish flakes w/out chemical preservatives
• Flax seeds (crushed)
• Frozen fish food (esp. algae and brine shrimp)
• Garbanzos (calcium)
• Grape Leaf
• Grapevine (vines and root)
• Green and red leaf lettuce (not iceburg; dark green)
• Hempseed Meal
• Hibiscus flowers
• Hikari products: brine shrimp, krill, crab cuisine, sea plankton (no
• preservatives)
• Honey (organic, or at least locally produced, for anti-microbials)
• Jasmine flowers
• Kelp (calcium)
• Lobster with crushed exoskeleton
• Marigold flowers (though I have reservations, it's used as pest
• repellent in Organic Gardening)
• Marion Berries
• Mint (but not peppermint!)
• Most organic baby foods
• Mushrooms
• Nasturtium flowers
• Oak Leaves
• Oysters (zinc)
• Pansy flowers and leaves
• Parsley (calcium & vit. C)
• Plain calcium carbonate powder
• Popcorn (unseasoned, unflavored, unbuttered)
• Quinoa (New World grain - calcium)
• Red raspberry leaves (highest bioavailable calcium source + vit. C and
• trace minerals)
• Rooibus
• Rose petals
• Rose hips (high in Vit. C)
• Salmon
• Sand dollars
• Sardines (calcium)
• Sea salt
• Sea grasses
• Sea Sponges (chitin and calcium)
• Sea fan (red or black - chitin)
• Sea biscuits
• Sesame seeds (crushed)
• Shrimp and exoskeletons
• Spinach
• Spirulina (complete protein and chlorophyll source)
• Sprouts (flax, wheat, bean, alfalfa, etc.)
• Squash
• Sunflower Seeds (crushed)
• Sweet potato
• Tuna (zinc)
• Turnip greens (calcium)
• Violet flowers
• Watercress (vit. A)
• Watermelon
• Wheat grass (magnesium)
• Wheat (calcium)
• Wheat germ (B vitamins)
• Whitefish
• Zucchini

Foods to avoid:

• Bindweed
• Catnip
• Cinnamon
• Garlic
• Geranium
• Hemlock
• Holly berries
• Juniper Berries
• Lavender
• Lemon Balm (Sweet Melissa)
• Lemon Grass
• Mistletoe
• Morning glory
• Ornamental tobacco (tobacco in general)
• Peppermint
• Pine or cedar wood and needles
• Rosemary
• Verbena
• Vinca
• Foods high in salt
• Treated with chemicals
• Treated with preservatives

Answer 5

land hermit crabs eat fruits vegetibles occasionly popcorn (that doesent have salt or butter) decaying wood leaf litter and they eat anything washed up from the shore/tide

Answer 6

wild hermit crabs are scavengers they usually eat what other animals have left behind.

Answer 7

they eat small cigerrets cigars and humans p.s. they also eat tiny dead fish and baby hermit crabs and poison

Answer 8

Mainly small hermit crabs eat seaweed particles or very tiny fish it depends