Why Are My Hermit Crabs Digging?
 ... became a I was a little stressed about my hermit crabs digging habits. Their tank always seemed messy and quite often several of the crabs were nowhere to be seen and so I would spend ages searching for them wondering whether they had escaped. < I started chatting to  [more]...

Why Care For Hermit Crabs?
 ... of land hermit crabs as pet has grown these days. If they are provided appropriate habitat and proper care they will provide several years of enjoyment to their owner. The life span of the hermit crabs is around years if they are raised up appropriately. < crabs have a habit  [more]...

Feeding Your Hermit Crabs
 ... crabs eat besides hermit in the wild hermit crabs eat a variety of foods like fallen fruit decaying wood leaf litter grasses and plants without conifers. They eat almost whatever they can find either by the waves washing it up onto the beach or scraps other animals leave  [more]...

Get Acquainted With Your Hermit Crabs
 ... interesting little critters that do make for really good pets. However before you rush out and buy one it might be an idea to learn a little about how they behave in their natural environment. If you have a good understanding of how they live then you will find that you will have years of  [more]...

Space Requirements for Your Hermit Crab
 ... potential hermit crab owner you might be wondering if there is a limit to the number of hermit crabs you can have in a certain amount of space. This is something I first wondered when I started keeping hermit crabs as pets. There is no really easy way to answer that question with exact numbers  [more]...

Why Does He Not Like His Shell
 ... growing period of hermit crabs they would require a larger shell which fits their needs. As appropriate undamaged gastropod shells are supplied limited sometimes often a vigorous competition has been observed between the crabs regarding shells. The accessibility of the empty shells at given  [more]...

Who Needs Calcium?
 ... around the world are cats dogs birds and even fish as well. However the trend is changing drastically and people are now opting to have a unique and exotic pet to provide entertainment and companionship to them. Hermit crabs have become popular these days as an attractive and appealing pet  [more]...