I have a hermit crab i think is pregnant but i don't know how to care for it. Is there anyway to make the tank feel like home?
2006-07-26 10:22:39 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Continuing from my previous answer to you, the only thing I could suggest in a small tank with some kind of turtle shelf in it, and live sand from a marine store. You would have to mix the marine salt to about 1.022 s.g. and buy some phytoplankton to feed them (marine stores carry it) The water would have to be heavily aerated, and lit with a florescent bulb. You would also have to moniter the level of water in the tank, ANY evaporation would have to be replaced quickly or the salt in the tank will quickly become too strong. If they survive the first few molts, you could switch to feeding them rotifers.
For the 'beach'
http://www.turtlesale.com/drying-ledges.html
Food
http://www.marine-phytoplankton.com/
http://www.reefcrew.bionomicsolutions.com/Assets/Html/Products/Animals/Rotifers/home.htm
2006-07-26 12:01:15 · answer #1 · answered by iceni 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Land HErmit crabs do not get pregnant they get gravid with eggs within their shell on the side of her abdomen. They do not reproduce in cptivity but are harvested off of their beach home in the wild already gravid.
It is impossible to replicat everything that is nessecary for the eggs to hatch and survive. Not even any highly educated scientists with the top of the line equipment have been able to do this and the at home owner shure can not. They will not live.
No one has been successful to date and it is impossible to replicate the entire ecosystem nessecary for the zoea to live.. the proper..
tide flow, water make-up, salinity, chemical balance that is exactly like their natural habibtat, the temperatures, the live plankton and pseudo-plankton of which they eat as well as other microscopic things. The exact troical environment and land beach makeup witht he proper sands.
The ebb and flow of the waters and the exact places in the water in which they live.. it is impossible.
You should have already researched on how to properly care for land hermit crabs and if you did the tank would already be like home to them.
2006-07-27 05:05:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, for starters you have to have at least 1 male and 1 female to reproduce. Do you research. Here's a place to start:
http://seashells.com/hermitcrabs/hermitcrab.htm
2006-07-26 11:14:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go on to google and type in pet care there might be sites that can tell you plus you can get a book on how to
2006-07-26 10:25:21 · answer #4 · answered by smarty_pants 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think they reproduce in captivity
2006-07-26 10:30:20 · answer #5 · answered by Catcanscratch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ocean have sharks... guess what I suggest!
2006-07-26 10:27:00 · answer #6 · answered by ghyunu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take advice from vet or from where you got it from..
do research
2006-07-26 10:26:38 · answer #7 · answered by wild_diva1201 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://members.aol.com/TheWyvernsLair/inverts/HermitCrabs.html
This may be helpful for you---
2006-07-26 10:51:37 · answer #8 · answered by Ann 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋