Crabs

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

yes,crabs do have heads.you cant see there heads,but yes they do have heads

Horseshoe crabs are NOT poisonous at all and are harmless. During mating season, the eggs are extremely poisonous and should not be touched or eaten, you will be poisoned and you may die if not treated.

Hermit crabs like to be with others, like how other animals like to be. It always nice to have another partner. I had several hermit crabs and they lasted longer than ones with out any other hermit crab.

Commercially prepared and never unfrozen , about two months. But crab loses flavor quickly, and I would use them before their expiration date, even if kept properly frozen.

Homemade and then frozen, not more than aweek for best flavor, and after two weeks, it's cat food.

They drink water but NOT tap water. it have chlorne in it that burns the hermit crabs gills. give them distilled or spring water. they also need a salt water dish, so that can bath in it, the salt heals them. Never use table salt. use Sea Salt instead. :)

A hermit crab would seldom find a strawberry, since crabs live in the ocean and strawberries grow on the land, however, I am sure that they would eat them if the opportunity arose; they are quite omnivorous.

yes, don't know if it will taste good afterwards

An adult coconut crab has few predators, humans are responsible for killing the majority (either indirectly through habitat destruction or directly for food). Juvenile crabs are preyed on by gulls and other bird, sometimes other coconut crabs, rats, monkeys, lizards and pigs.

The scientific name for a crab is Pediculus pubis.

Hermit crabs require a far more restricted environment than the pet stores would have you believe. Most pet stores don't even realize the amount of care that is needed.

They require a regulated, tropical environment, which cannot be obtained with a plastic or wire cage. The temperature must be maintained between 74*F and 81*F, and the relative humidity should always be between 70-80%. This cannot be obtained with regular misting. You have to have a lid to help hold in heat and moisture, and it helps to also have other means for keeping the air moist, such as a damp moss pit, moist substrate, or a device like a water bubbler ("Jacuzzi"), etc.

To help them live longer, do not feed them commercial foods. Most commercial foods contain a preservative called Ethoxyquin which is a slow toxin for hermit crabs. It is used in the making of pesticides, and hermit crabs are more closely related to insects than they are to actual crabs. Feed them a very wide variety of foods, preferably organic, free from pesticides (very well washed if not), rich in proteins, calcium, chitin, and zeaxanthin. You can feed them the same foods you eat, just the meat should be cooked without any seasonings (you can fry them in olive oil, which the crabs love, or steam them or even microwave small bits), and they need plenty of fresh and cooked vegetables and fruits for the juices and oils and enzymes they contain. Seaweed is a must, as it is rich in nutrients that the hermit crabs require. You can pick up Spirulina and kelp in your local grocery store nutrition section, in the bulk foods, as well as the seaweed used for sushi, or pick up sheets at the pet store. You can get freeze dried shrimp and mealworms at the pet store as well, just make sure there are no added ingredients (preservatives). They also enjoy organic worm castings, also known as earthworm droppings, but they look just like black dirt.

Please visit this website before you get a hermit crab, or if you are not sure you have the complete setup you need: http://crabstreetjournal.com/xoops/modules/news/article.php?storyid=75&keywords=essentials

And this: http://crabstreetjournal.com/xoops/modules/news/article.php?storyid=29&keywords=essentials

Please note that these articles are a little out of date, but only a couple of things have changed: There is no need to bathe your hermit crabs if you give them water dishes that are deep enough for them to submerge (give them a way to climb out, such as glass pebbles or uncoated river pebbles), and there is no need to bathe them in stresscoat, if bathing is ever needed. It is believed that it may block the exchange of nutrients through the crab's skin/exoskeleton.

No need for a sponge in the water dish, there are other means of creating humidity in the tank, and sponges must be sterilized every couple of days to prevent the growth of bacteria.

Playsand is no longer a recommended substrate, as there have been many instances of crabs becoming poisoned or having other problems related to toxins in the playsand. Much of it is "safe", but there is no way to determine whether it is or not, as most of the impurities cannot be seen or smelled, and do not wash out or disappear by sterilizing the sand. There is no means by which to determine where the playsand was created (by pulverizing rocks) or what sort of impurities may be in the soil/rocks from which it was created. Better to use Eco Earth (coconut fiber) or, best choice, Aragonite sand, sugar grain or select grain size, as these sizes are created to be Oolitic, ie, rounded so no sharp bits can enter the crab's shell and puncture the soft abdomen. it's also very nutritious for them. Never, ever use Calci-sand.

Do read those articles, do some searches in the forum if you have further questions, and join up and ask if you can't find the answers you are looking for.

Good luck and happy crabbing!

absolutely, especially when they are dipped in a garlic butter sauce!

A hermit crab is very vulnerable without the snail shell, so you can expect it to get eaten, (or dry up for land hermit crabs), or injured before too long.

Some species of hermit crabs actually don't use snail shells at all, however.

The life span of this unusual creature, the yeti crab is:*baby

*child

*teenager

*adult

*death...

So you can see that animals and unusual creature aren't any different from human...we

are are unusual creeps too..

Just to be clear you have been wasting your time hear reading..instead

of doing real and correct stuff.

Dont hurt him.. They remember everything and they will get revenge! Beware you in for scare

mutalism

Be patient. Make sure that the temperature and humidity are in the proper range 72-82 and let them take their time. Some crabs are just skittish by nature but even social crabs will not come out unless the conditions are favorable.

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Yes, crabs can regrow a limb that they have lost or that they have dropped. What happens is that they grow a small gel limb and when they go down to molt, the leg is regenerated. Regular legs can usually be regrown in one molt, the pinchers take two and sometimes three molts for the limb to reach the appropriate size.

Whenever they molt, they get bigger. People dont know how fast exactly, but many times a year.

Mr Krabs first name is Eugene and so the he is called eugene krabs

No, they are not...

They live in salt water, because they usually live in the ocean. I learned this in school.
I adopted a fiddler crab...TODAY! My teacher told me to buy salt water and they've been living in it for a long time.

Marine and Land hermit crabs both have eyes with which to see. Their vision is believed to not be very sharp.

Moving shadows will cause a land hermit crab to retreat into his shell, as he interprets this as a possible predator who may be coming to eat him.

Hermit crabs do not have ears, however, and are extremely sensitive to vibrations. Their antennae sense vibrations and scents in the air, and this is how they interpret their safety and where they should go to find food.

ONLY if the setting or location is ACTUALLY its natural environment. Hermit crabs live in tropical places, on the shoreline and first row of trees by the ocean. If you live in the Caribbean, and see other hermit crabs living by themselves in the wild, then PLEASE free the poor guy and return him to his natural habitat! ALL hermit crabs from pet shops were caught in the wild, it is nearly impossible for pet stores to successfully breed hermit crabs in captivity.