Make sure that the feeding tank you prepare is the right size. A fish tank with a volume of 37 to 75 liters is suitable for one hermit crab, while two hermit crabs need a volume of 75 to 15 1 liter. A home suitable for the growth of hermit crabs should allow fresh air to enter while retaining moisture. Fish tanks or reptile pet feeding boxes are suitable.
Ensure that the temperature of the feeding cylinder is correct. Hermit crabs are tropical animals and need warm temperatures. 2 1 to 29 degrees Celsius (70 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit) is the appropriate temperature range. Prepare bottom sand. Bottom sand is a layer of material laid on the bottom of the feeding tank. You can only use sugar-sized sand, because sand of other sizes may scratch hermit crabs.
Provide water. All kinds of hermit crabs need fresh water and salt water. You need to prepare two basins for them. Hermit crabs need to balance the water salinity in the snail shell, and the basin filled with water should be deep enough for the hermit crab shell to get water, but at the same time, it is necessary to ensure that they can climb out.
Provide stable and diversified food. Hermit crabs are born to be "scavengers" in nature and eat almost everything. They like the best parts of beef ham, as well as fresh shrimps, freeze-dried krill, red worms and other seafood. They also like to eat raw meat.
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Hermit crab lives in the armor of its prey, but because of this armor, it has to run around on its back, even making its right claw foot bigger than its left claw foot, or its left sting foot bigger than its right claw foot.
There are more than 500 species of hermit crabs in the world, most of which live in water, and a few live on land. Some hermit crabs no longer live in crustaceans, but have developed a hard shell similar to crabs, also called hard shell hermit crabs, and the famous coconut crabs belong to this category.
Common hermit crabs can be divided into three categories: Herminidae, Herminidae and Herminidae. Because hermit crabs are omnivorous animals, they are called scavengers by the sea. They eat everything from algae and food residues to parasites. For family fish lovers, putting one or two hermit crabs in the aquarium will play the role of cleaners.
The life span of hermit crabs is generally 2-5 years, but in a good feeding environment, they can often live for 20-30 years, and the longest recorded one has lived for 70 years. Hermit crabs have conch shells, shells and snail shells, and even use bottle caps as their homes because of the bad ecological environment.
Hermit crabs are soft at birth and easy to be preyed. When they grow up, they have to find a house that suits them, so they attack the conch and kill it and tear it to pieces. Then go in, hook the top of the snail shell with its tail, support the inner wall of the snail shell with several short legs, and crawl outside the shell with long legs, and hold the shell mouth with big claws. In this way, it moved into a new home with strong environmental protection.
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