Hermit Crabs and Care - What to Do and How!

By Joan Fox

In order to give your hermit crabs the best care, it is necessary to know what you need their home to be like. The environment that you keep your crabs in has to be appreciated by them. To give your crabs the best care, they will need either a glass or plastic enclosure. You will want to put a wire top on the enclosure so they do not escape, they are great climbers.
 
Just like you, your new pet crab will get bored if he doesn't have plenty of room and things to do. To care for your pet, it is always nice to have a rather large enclosure and tons of things they can climb on. You can get sticks and logs for them climb all over. In the wild they climb trees and big logs.

Temperature is vital in the care of your crabs. The temperature has to stay just right because hermit crabs need a lot of humidity. The temperature needs to stay right around 72 degrees F. If it gets too much hotter than 72 degrees or too much lower than 72 degrees, there is a good chance that you may kill your hermit crab. For proper care of your crabs you need to make sure the temperature stays where it needs to be.

Try to make their home as much like the wild as you can. I would suggest putting some sea shells in their tank with them, definitely logs and things to climb on. Sand is always a great way to care for your crabs, it makes them feel like they are in the wild again. You can go to just about any pet store around and find sand to use for your crabs habitat, or crabitat if you will.

These exotic crabs need company. They love having friends to play with and socialize with just like you. You would be bored too, if stuck in a cage by yourself all the time. Well keep that in mind when you are trying to provide the best care for your crabs. Make sure you get friends. Just remember though, the more friends you have the more toys, hiding places, hermit crab shells, and food you will need. You will also need a larger tank for them and extra food. With all of these things you will be giving the best care for your crabs. A great way to care for your these crabs is to give them lots of places to hide. In the wild they like to hide under rocks and logs. So get them some little things they can hide under. It can be logs, rocks, little hideaway toys from a pet store, or something you make yourself. Your pet crabs will love it no matter what it is.

The best way you could possibly care for your crabs would be to think of what you would want if you were them. For proper care of hermit crabs you will need to make sure they have all of the following: Places to hide, toys or things they can climb on, logs, sticks, rocks, and even lego's work. Hermit crabs will need friends, sand, and shells to feel at home. The best care for your hermit crabs will be if you have all of this and the proper food, heating, and habitat. If you have all of this, then you are on the right track to giving the best care for your crabs that you can.