What in the world do hermit crabs eat?

Answer 1

they are carnivores, but as pets just use pet store brand hermit crab food.

Answer 2

Honestly, just about any small food item their claws can manage.

This is especially true if you are talking about hermit crabs of the small, pet-shop aquarium variety, any sort of fruit, nut, seed or small edible piece of meat or kelp will do. Most aquarium and pet-shop sellers that sell Hermit Crabs recommend that you stick to plant life since the basic crab itself starts life as a flexible herbivore that *can* eat some meat protein only after becoming larger in its life. In other words: feed your pet crab small slices of fresh fruit (bananas, apples, oranges, berries, almost anything will work), nuts and seeds (individual shelled peanuts, walnuts, sunflower seeds, popcorn--though air-popped is healthier than microwaved seven days out of seven), and maybe the rare bit of fresh tuna or small shrimp...

Hope this one helps, and good luck with your cool new pet, I've always wanted one of those....;)

Answer 3

Whether you have decided to suppliment your crabs diet with a more natural one.. or have decided to forgo the use of Commercial foods all together.. here is a quick and simple list of easy to find Hermit Crab Friendly foods...

(Make sure everything is of good quality, human grade where possible, organic and all natural with no added ingredients, preservatives, fertilizers or pesticides.)
TOMATOES< CITRIS AND DAIRY ARE ALL PERFECTLY SAFE AND FINE!!!!

Alfalfa (fresh and dried)
Almonds
Apples (fresh and dried)
Avocado
Banana (fresh and dried)
Barley
Beef
Bell Peppers
Blackberries
Bloodworms
Blue berries
Bok Choy
Broccoli
Brown Rice
Cantelope
Carrots (fresh, cooked and tops too)
Celery leaves
Total, Cheerios or Kashi Cereal
Calendula Flowers
Chamomlie Flowers
Chicken (cooked and raw)

Chicken Bones crushed
Cholla Wood
Cilantro (fresh and dried)
Clams
Clover (flowers and leaves)
Coconut (fresh and dried)
Collards
Cork Bark
Corn
Crickets
Cucumber
Cuttlefish Bone
Dandelions (all parts)
Dried Kelp and Sea Weed
Dulse and Dulse Flakes
eggs and egg shells
Feeder goldfish
Fish Flakes
Flax seeds and meal
Garbanzos
Grape Leaves and Grape Vine
Grapes
Grasshoppers
Hibiscus Flowers
Honey (natural and Organic)
Kaytee Healthy Topping
Mango (fresh and dried)
Mandarine oranges
Mealy Worms
Milk Thistle (flowers)
Oak Leaves (dried and crumbled)
Ocean Plankton
Oranges
Papaya
Peanutbutter (unsweetened, unsalted and organic)
Pears
Popcorn (unsalted and unbuttered, plain air popped)
Raisins (unsweetened, organic)
Rose (petals, buds, hips.. dried or fresh)
Red Raspberry leaves and fruit
Sea weeds Dried
Silversides (smelly fish)
Salmon
Spinach
Sunflower seeds (unsalted)
Shrimp (dried, raw, cooked, all parts, skins too)
Spirulina (powder, disks etc)
Sweet Potato
Tomatos
Tuna
Wax Worms
Whole oats (rolled, non instant oatmeal)




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THEY CAN AND WILL EAT DAIRY, TOMATO AND CITRIS... ALL OF THOSE MYTHS HAVE BEEN LONG BUSTED MANY SITES ARE BADLY OUT OF DATE>

Answer 4

Hermit crab food-get it at your local pet store

Answer 5

Anything EXCEPT dairy products, citrus fruits, tomatoes, and table salt. These foods will kill your hermies. They even eat SOME types of flowers as long as you make SURE they do not contain pesticides. Be SURE to wash ANYTHING you give them. You can buy "crab cakes" at your local pet store also.
You must also be SURE to offer salt water (ocean salt NOT table ~ you can find the solution at your local pet store) as well as fresh water (any water suitable for aquariums). If you use tap water for mixing EITHER fresh or salt water, the chlorine MUST first be removed with chlorine remover from your local pet store.
They must be misted daily. Be sure the chlorine has been removed from the misting water also.
There are several sites for hermit crab lovers on the web. I can't think of them off the top of my head, but they shouldn't be too hard to find.
I think one is crabstreetjournal.com.

Answer 6

They have hermit crab food at Wal-Mart it cames in a little shaker basically it is tiny dried shrimp. it costs about 3.00 and will last about 1and 1/2 months for 1-2 crabs

Answer 7

hermit crab food that comes in a little package(you can get it at the pet store) and water.

Answer 8

I had like a gagillion hermit crabs but all of them died and they sell the food in pet stores thats where I got it and heres a tip when they die...dont leave themin the house bcause we left them in the house and flies came and it was smelly!

Answer 9

They are like crabs and lobsters they are scavengers mostly. I have seen videos of dead marine life being eaten by everything else in the sea but the crabs were really aggressive.

Answer 10

hermit crabs eat worms though.

Answer 11

the organic mud that sticks to grains of sand on the beach, the sand grain the roll up to a ball and that leaves pretty trails of small balls, some of the biggen ones have been seen eating seals and in odd casses humans when the are verry hungry, this only happens at full moon, so u better take care next time u skinny dipp at a full moon party//