hermit crab diet in the wild

hi! i am debbie with expertvillage.com. weare talking about having hermit crabs for pets and what we are going to talk about rightnow is how to clean out your habitat. we talked about earlier you need to change out theirfood and water every other day religiously. while you are doing that, it is a good ideato take all our toys out and food dish and water dish and you are going to put your littlecrabs in a container that they cannot get

hermit crab diet in the wild, out of. now, you don’t want anything thatthey can climb up on and that has holes on it because they are very climbers you needsomething with a smooth side, that they cannot get out of because believe me if you walkaway from them, they are going to escape. so, something like a bowl, a smooth sidedbox with a pretty high side that is something

that would work well. then you can buy thesealong with the hermit crabs supply area in the pet store or you could just use a littlecommon little kitchen sieve anything would work. you are going to use your little sieveto get all the debris out and any food that is rotten, any little crab poop that you wantto get that out, make it nice and clean. once a month you are going to need to clean outthe whole aquarium or the whole habitat. so, you will go, you will very carefully takeout your sand and your gravel and it might be even a good time to buy some fresh sand,have some fresh sand on hand to add to your habitat. put the container in the sink. nosoap, no cleaners, just warm water, get it nice and clean and dry, make sure it is driedthoroughly before you start adding every thing

back to your aquarium and before you startadding your crabs back and they are thinking they are going to get out of the bowl, butthey are not.