my hermit crabs doesn't eat its food?

Answers:
Well not sure what you are feeding it, guessing commercial foods??

If offering commercial foods please read the label very
carefully. There are certain things that you need to be aware of. Most commercially offered Hermit Crab foods, be it in pellet form or meal form contain preservatives that have been found to cause illness and shortened life spans of our beloved pets.

Two things that you need to watch out for and avoid are:
Ethoxyquin and Copper Sulfate

Both of these are pesticides found in common
commercial hermit crab food like;
FMR, T-Rex Crab Island, Most Canned Pellets
and Fish Flakes.

Really there is little reason to use commercial foods, as it
is far cheaper and easier to offer them some of the fresh
foods on our list as all of it is edible by humans and many of the items here we eat on a weekly basis.


Well Land Hermit Crabs are scavengers, they rarely find the same food two times in a row and prefer to not only have the same food offered over and over or will refuse to eat.

One must offer a fully balanced varied diet of fresh fruits, veggies, meats and fish, along with whole grains. Most foods they enjoy we eat as well.
Start with apple, banana, grapes, tomato, broccoli, cucumbers, romaine, melon, berries, eggs, egg shells, shrimp, salmon, beef, rolled non-instant oats, brown rice, bell peppers, chicken and crushed chicken bones.

That should get you going. On our forums we have the full list and are exploring other options as well to add to next years book.

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maybe it hates it. try giving something else.

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then get a different kind of food or go to a vet or someone to c if it is sick. and then heal it back to heath

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He is on a hunger strike, probably protesting the war in Iraq

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Try either fresh crushed shrimp or squid grabs are scavengers if that doesn't work then the crab is most likely sick and on his way to another plain of existence.

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My daughters hernit crabs did not like the commercial food we were buying them. We have found they like over-ripe bananas, fruits (over ripe apples and veggies (like strawberries mashed up, little chunks of roma tomatoes with chopped up kale or romaine lettuce.)

They like stinky foods and over ripe foods we have found. We also give them some of our turtles snacks- they like the canned fruit for box turtles. Every so often we give them a teaspoon of canned cat or dog food, they really enjoy that!

We also sprinkle their food with powder calcium (from the pet store) and they do like the hibiscus flower dinner by T-Rex.

Hope this helps some and they start eating!

Remember, maybe they are eating and you dont know it- ours eat late at night when we are all asleep and you cant really tell because they are small and dont eat alot.

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It will partly depend on how many hermit crabs you have and their sizes to tell if they are eating. If you have 4 small hermies, then you will not hardly notice that they are eating.

I mix alot of foods together and they eat it. I recommend that you get some Total brand Cornflakes and grind those up and give to the hermies or mix into thier foods. This is very high in nutrients and vitamins and it will give those to them to keep them from attacking and killing other hermies.

My mix of foods includes:
FMR and Fruit N Flower - Hermit crab foods
TetraMin Crisp fish food (higher absorbtions of nutrients, then regular fish flakes)
Jurissi Cal (for additional calcium source) - Reptile
Total brand cornflakes, Grape Nuts and Uncooked oatmeal - Human cereals

I have this all ground up and they love this mix more then any other I have had. The each tank will go through more then a tablespoon of the food a day but there is at least 15 hermies in each tank.

You can give them alot of human foods.Just make sure and do NOT give them any foods that you have added table salt to while cooking or has salt on the top of it. Human salt is harmful and will be fatal to hermies.

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try giving some different kind of food maybe ask the petstore you bought it from wat food they fed it

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they dont eat thta much u probly dont notice