Can hermit crabs eat Cuttlebone?

One of the best things you can do for your molting hermit crab is to leave it alone. Handling the crab, digging it up, or otherwise disturbing it as it goes through the molting process could actually cause substantial harm to the crab.

The Hermit Crab Patch notes that baby food is popular, particularly fruit flavors such as fruit medley, apples and bananas, mango fruit, guava fruit, sweet corn casserole, sweet potatoes and apples and applesauce.

Hermit crabs are natural scavengers, which means they will eat almost anything. Most of their daily protein should come from meat or fish — you can feed lean beef, chicken or turkey, salmon, tuna, shrimp, and eggs.

And all of our crabs are wild caught after all, so it's a very natural behavior for them and great enrichment. Chopping it would add a nice texture variety every so often (also somewhat enriching) but it's not really necessary.

For both pools of water, use bottled or distilled water, or treat tap water with dechlorinator -- the chlorine can kill hermit crabs if they drinks it. Keep the water levels deep enough that your crabs can submerge part of his body and shell, but not so deep that they can submerge completely and drown.

When crabs are having "feeler fights," they are actually smelling each other. Pushing contests, also, are a way they get acquainted. They will run up against each other and wildly wave their antennae and sort of "flick" their legs and claws out at each other.