Hermit Crabs

Yes. When a hermit crab is molting, it reserves energy by not moving. The old skin will be shed and look like a ghost crab. Make sure that your hermit crab has plenty of water in it's dish or sponge as humidity is a great help to him or her during this process.

Truthfully, other than the obvious (crabs and lobsters), they are closely related to the spider.

You can get hermit crab food at petstores.

Stress, Lack of no food/water, Killed by another crab, Lack of friends (which means if they don't have other crabs in the tank, they'll be lonley and less active.) Old age, Tempature to hot/ too cold, too much misting/ too little misting, Falling dangerous heights, Attacked by bigger animals, and drowning from a bath.

Don't do that! Hermit crabs may get out of their shell to change into a new shell or even get out to eat some lettuce or drink water from a water absorbed sponge. During that process who knows what the hamsters would do to the hermit crab. They're not meant to be in the same cage!

no, a lobster is a crustacean, not an echinoderm

I think they have have 6 legs including the pinchers. But many loose a leg or two during their lives.

A lot of people call it crab butter. But it is really an organ in crabs called the hepatopancreas, which functions mainly in digestion.

if it smells its dead if it doesnt its not. it usaull comes out at night because they are nocturnal.plus hermit crabs are oderless so if they smell they are dead

oh yes. they are pro escape artists and will find all sorts of crazy ways to get out of the tank and explore.

hermit crabs are very smart. They can find some tricky way to get out. make sure you have the proper top for you tank unless you want to find a hermit crab on your bed.

Yes. Hermit crabs eat fruits, veggies, lean (non fatty) not seasoned meats, egg yolk, egg white, egg shell (rich in protein).

Stay AWAY from human foods, such as peanut butter twinkies, and COMMERICAL FOOD, it has harmful preservatives (no matter what it says), and little or no nutrients.

My hermies absolutely LOVE SEA salted nuts, it has to be SEA salted, because table salt sofacates and kills hermies.

10, if you include the claws.

NO!somepeople say you can give them food leftovers but you can't because it has iodized salt and spices which are harmful for crabbies.

Hermit crabs do excrete waste, they pee so little, you dont notice it, and they store it in their shells and scoop it out, along with excrement.

Hermit crabs live on land, for they only need water to drink, not to live on/in.

Crab apple trees are members of the Rose Family, they are edible and delicious, they were the only apples around for millions of years until the ancient Turks bred them into domestic apples in the Ili valley of Kazakhstan.

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Yes, because the humidity needs to be a bit above average. Also, they sometimes prefer to drink out of a sponge. You need to have the sponge in a ocean-water dish that is deep enough for the hermit crab to submerse in. Thus giving a choice of drinking from the sponge, drinking from the water itself, or soaking in the dish - which helps with molting and gives the crab a natural option for bathing like he would have in the wild. make sure there are always BOTH fresh and salt water dishes in your crab tank - dechlorinated and de-metalled water is vital to your crab's survival! and the salt water should NOT be table salt! you need ocean salt - like oceanic or instant ocean found in pet stores for aquariums. table salt is harmful to hermit crabs.

no. their not endangered cause of all the babies a female has and most females have up to about...i think 40,000 babies but they are larva. so they are not endangered. i they were we probaly wouldn't have them with us cause they were endangered.

Generally, crabs feed on any other small fishes or crustaceans, alive or dead that they can catch. For fishing purposes, we use old, cut-up sections of stinky, dead fish. The odor attracts them to the crab net. Here in Oregon, a particularly vitriolic insult or threat is to call someone "Crab Bait". As in, "OK, nowyou're crab bait." (The threat) And, "Ugh! He looks like crab bait to me." (Not attractive and/or clean) :>)

Why would you throw away a crab's molt? They are great pizza toppings. #StupidIdiot

You can tell a land hermit crab from a water hermit crab by looking at the claws/arms or legs. If it is a water crab it will be blueish and if land crab it will be pinkish purpleish. If your crab is a water crab don't just throw it in water and leave it there, put a tiny bowl in it's tank or cage that is low to the ground and make sure that the water level is a bit lower than the hermit crabs top of its legs. Also have a wet sponge for each kind of hermit crab in the crabs tank.

Crabs will hide under rocks after they have molted while their new shell is soft. During this time they are very vulnerable to predators. The time it takes for their shell to harden varies by species but for some it is a few days.

It all depends where you get the Hermit Crab from. I got two Hermit crabs when i got mine. I got two Hermit Crabs and two shells and plus all of the other stuff I had to save up about $230-$250 dollars just to be safe. Because you never know you might find something at the store that you think your Hermit Crab just HAS to have. I know I did. TIP: I have also found that PetSmart is a little bit cheaper than PetCo, especially if you have one of their cards. And it's not that much cheaper than PetCo, BUT in the long run it will eventually pay off. I know that it helped me out.

If you can no longer keep your pet hermit crab take it to a low tide beach and if you live near a beach where it came from its perfect i live in Arizona but mine is from the carribbean so i hope i wont get rid of it soon xD

Yes and No, they can eat both meat, fruits and vegtables. The scientific term for this is omnivore.