Sand and coconut shavings for the ground, artificial plants or disinfected real plants, a food dish, and two water dishes, one for salt water and one for delchorinated water, sponges to put in the dishes, hiding places for the crab, that you can buy at the pet shop, and climbing utencils, such as sticks. To build the tank itself, i guess glass for the sides, and wood for the bootom, and hot glue or super glue to glue them together.
When ever a hermit crab grows out of its old shell it finds a new one to call home. There is no set amount of times a hermit crab will change its shells. The hermit crab will only change shells if it has grown to big for its original one. Otherwise, the hermit crab will not change shells. It all depends on the hermit crab's growth rate and size.
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.
I saw a hermit crab on the beach.
Hermit crabs use gills to breath.
A hermit crab.
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.
use a hot water bottle wrapped in a towel and place the hermit crab near it. If you have a tank setup - you should be using heat lamps or UTH's to provide heat for your hermit crabs. please go to hermitcrabs-r-us.com or landhermitcrabs.com for information on how to care for hermit crabs.
hermit crabs use their claws to grab food
Hermit crabs and turtles NEVER should go in the same tank! hermit crabs need a ton of humidity, and turtles don't even live near hermit crabs, plus hermies can drown. Hermit crabs need their own tank. 2-3 small hermies need a ten gallon tank. I don't know about turtles, i would also get ANOTHER ten gallon tank.
You must always have a spare larger shell for a hermit crab as they have no natural shell of their own. Just place a larger shell in the tank and if the crab does not use it straight away, don't worry, it eventually will do as they need larger ones as they grow.
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.
yes i use to have one and we kept him in a tiny plastic cage but no netting on the edge make sure its safe though it probably depends on the crab. If it is a small crab you could put it in a plastick cage, but when it gets older and bigger you might want to change it. good luck!!