Crabs

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.

Blue crabs find most of their food at the bottom of the ocean. Most crabs are scavengers and will eat almost anything that drops to the bottom and begins to decay.

they both have hard shells and are highly equipped with protiens.

Fiddler crabs usually live 1.5 years or maybe 2, depending on the health and theplace they live.

All hermit crabs vary in size depending on their age; young ones will probably be around half an inch or so, and full grown ones can get to be about a foot and as big as a melon(in the wild). If they're breeded, they will only grow to be about half a foot (the size of a baseball).

No, but they will be soon. Hermit crabs have been abused for years and still are. they are NOT throw away pets and can live for years in captivity. pet store keepers have no idea that they are tropical animals and without the right temp, humidity, space, right kind of water, they can die.

no they do not have an internal skeleton in order to grow they switch their shells

That depends on what you mean by "sleep." Hermit crabs are nocturnal, which means they usually come out at night. The reason they are nocturnal in their native habitat is because it is too hot for them to come out during the day, though you will see them out and about on overcast days.

When hermit crabs are kept in captivity and their conditions are perfect, they will occasionally cease being strictly nocturnal and will roam their cages during the daytime.

A hermit crab that stays in its shell, and does not move all winter is probably dead. Winter is a hard time for most hermit crabs, because most hermit crab owners do not understand that hermit crabs must be kept in humid conditions, at temperatures above 75 degrees. When the temperature gets below 65 they start to slow down and will eventually die if they stay cold for too long. If their cage is not humid enough, they will suffocate to death because they require humid air to breathe properly.

As a side note, the plastic boxes most places sell as hermit crab cages are TERRIBLE for hermit crabs. A person interested in owning and caring for hermit crabs should be ready to spend at least $50 (preferably more!) on a good home for them, a glass aquarium with a snug-fitting glass lid to hold in humidity, and a reliable heat source.

If the crab is not poisonous and it is a big crab you can boil it in a pot for about 30 mins then they are delisious p.s it is better to boil the crab in its shell bye

They are very tiny bugs that you could most likely see when your crab is walking or just out and about. Sometimes you can see them around the cage and they look like little whit or brown grains of rice

Blue crabs are omnivores. They eat small fish and thin-shelled animals, as well as plants, so they are predators. They are also prey since they are eaten by humans and other animals (eels, sharks).

I dont know if this is still useful to you. I just read somehwere that it is simply a white crab spider and that "Crab spiders prefer yellow or white flowers because the female can change to those colors." So sometimes you will see all white spiders, sometimes white with yellow abdomen markings, and sometimes pink because they can change colors.

No one knows for sure but it is thought that they live for somewhere between 20 to 40 years.

number one the water is able to give enough support to a life form as long as it is surrounding the the animal.Ex. Jellyfish

Number two the hard shell with other stuff STUFFED inside also provides enough support

I actually have a huge irrational fear of crabs and my entire family gets mad at me for it but I can’t help it

Xanthid crabs eat mostly on algae, but also eat other marine vegetation. Xanthid crabs are poisonous and cannot be eaten by humans..

It would mean since you are male that you might be getting a new unexpected pet in the household.

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they cost 3 to 15 the 3 is a medium or big size 15 is the really big ones

Other than humans, clams are eaten by many animals. Seagulls and other sea birds will pick up clams and drop them on rocks to open them. Raccoons will eat clams by either crunching them with their teeth or prying them open with their hands. Sea stars (or star fish) are able to completely cover and pry open clams underwater. There are also some kind of fish that will eat clams. California otters Elephant seals Rays

with its claws

A small crab with around 4 or 6 legs, with a shell. Colors for the shell can b eany color because humans sometimes paint the shell when at a pet store. Hermit crabs are invertibrates. The color of the skin is usually red. Can be brown.

They do because they are intimidated by the fishes' jumping. Yes crabs can jump.

There are a couple hundred different species of crayfish, but the one most commonly eaten in the US is the red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), about 95% of which come from Louisiana.