It has to have 70-80 F and humidity to live, if you can 1 other hermit crab, distilled water, SEA salt water, 1 gallon of space per hermit crab, and food of course! They are scavengers and will eat anything like fruits and veggies. change food and waters daily / nightly
1 year
I LOVE that question! hermit crabs have been abused for years! hermit crabs are tropical animals. thay need 1 gallon of space per hermit crab, they also need love and attention they have personalities too.
The actual weight for a strawberry hermit crab if you are holding 1 in your hand in it is about 3 or 4 ounces. The shipping weight for a strawberry hermit crab is 1 pound.
1-3 ounces
1-3 ounces
Kinda, it is part of it's habitat, they live in the Caribbean so they need to live in a place to climb, a little sand between 70 and 80 F for temp and 70 - 80 % humidity. They also need SEA salt water table salt will blister gills they need this to bath in to heal. And DISTILLED water chlorene will blister and sofacate the hermit crab. They also live in groups so buy at least 2. 1 gallon OS space per SMALL hermit crab. they also eat fruits and veggies so change food daily or it will atract bugs.
Hermit crabs can get up to 1 or 2cm . - Taylor Musgrave ; Myspace mee (:
By itself maybe 1 year. But with friends they can live up to 15 years but there was one woman who raised her hermit crabs for over 30 years
2-3 small hermies should go in a ten gallon tank but you should at least have a ten gallon tank for 1 hermie, you should think about getting some friends for it too.
It depends upon the size of the hermit crab. You can fit 5-7 small crabs in a 10 gallon tank but only 1 or 2 large crabs. The more room you leave for your crabs the happier and healthier they will be. be careful not to overcrowd your tank, cos the hermits can get stressed, and may leave their shell or crawl into a corner and sulk :) But probably two or three would be enough room
You will know when your hermit crab is about to die because it will not move in the shell. When it is not moving it starts to fall out of its shell. Like my hermit crabs 2 of them died and now I only have 1. The first and second one did the same thing of course but they both fell out. You also know when a hermit crab dies, when they a pale or there skin is different. They will not hide into there shell at all. Hopefully your hermit crabs are in good health like mine were!!!