Recently on a whim, began to try to raise hermit crabs, cute hermit crabs have a pair of big eyes, gorgeous body color, but also carry a variety of snail shells, is a well-deserved "house family", in addition to some of the insect creatures are very afraid of friends, may think that they grow quite cute ~ and terrestrial hermit crabs in recent years are also increasingly being raised as a novel pet, is a cute and docile, does not occupy space and is very good to raise desktop pets
Professional hermit crab feeding equipment, the need for incubators, heating pads (ceramic lamps), thermohygrometer, salinity meter, climbing, hiding, etc., because the land hermit crab is a tropical creature, need to live in a warm and humid environment, and lively, like to climb high, if you prepare such a set of equipment less than a few hundred yuan, more than a thousand yuan, as a student party is difficult to come up with such a budget, then how should the student party raise terrestrial hermit crabs? (*'▽'*)？
In fact, if you want to make the hermit crab comfortable, the problems that need to be paid attention to are only the following points:
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > temperature and humidity:</h1>
Temperatures greater than 20 ° C and less than 40 ° C generally do not die, but the most comfortable temperature of crabs is about 30 ° C, and the relative humidity is recommended to be more than 70%, but it is necessary to ensure better ventilation, otherwise the crab will not be able to breathe
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > drinking water and food</h1>
Need to prepare a small bowl of fresh water for the hermit crab to drink, if you can, put a sponge that sucks up the water, you can prevent the water basin from overturning, the food is fresh or freeze-dried melons, fruits, vegetables, fish, shrimp, etc. can be fed, but the hermit crab loves to eat fresh coconut meat or dried coconut flakes (recommended as a staple food)
This is the coconut flakes and dried carrots I bought at a treasure, and it is said that eating carrots helps the crabs to be more colorful, but I have not verified it myself
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > bathing seawater</h1>
Although the land hermit crab spends most of its time on land, but also need to soak in the sea bath from time to time to adjust the body osmolality, if you do not live by the sea, you can choose to buy aquatic life special seawater to mix themselves, the concentration is about 0.5%, want to be more rigorous can buy a seawater salinity meter, or find a common 500ml mineral water bottle, full of a bottle of water to add two bottles of caps or so of seawater, you can match a bottle, raise less can be used for a long time ~
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > enough room to move</h1>
Whether it is a professional incubator or an ordinary finishing box feeding box, it is recommended to choose a size of more than 30x20x20cm, and according to the size and density of the crabs raised to continuously choose a larger feeding box, many people calculate the space will only calculate the length and width, but the height of the feeding box is also very important, the hermit crab likes to climb high, plus the need for thicker bedding to spend the peeling period, to leave the crab height twice the thickness of the mat, plus the height of more than five times the activity climbing space, the larger the better in this basic value
My personal feeding box is 34x24.5x19cm and houses four 2-3cm size mini gray-white hermit crabs (actually this feeding density is a bit larger...). Raising 2 or 3 is the most suitable, but my bedding is relatively thick and can be dealt with under ~)
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > a hidden object that successfully passes through the shehulling period</h1>
Hermit crab belongs to arthropods, need to complete the growth through peeling, just faded the skin of the hermit crab body is very fragile, need to hide and wait for the new skin to slowly thicken and harden, although the usual hermit crab lives together is very harmonious, but in the peeling period will often occur "murder", and even the weak will be eaten by other hermit crabs ... Setting up a shelter helps weak hermit crabs not to be harmed by their companions
If you don't want to buy it, half a water bottle, cans, etc. cans can also be used, but try to remove the bottom placed on the side of the bedding, so that the hermit crab can dig sand in the shelter to bury itself
As long as the above conditions can be met, then you can let a small hermit crab accompany you for a long time
The natural lifespan of the hermit crab can reach more than 20 years, many captive individuals live in 2-5 years, occasionally very good can be raised for more than 10 years, novices just began to raise hermit crabs, it is easy to cause death due to negligence or lack of experience, but as long as they really love the hermit crabs and are willing to follow scientific feeding, they do not have to blame themselves too much
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > comes with a selection suggestion for a novice hermit crab species</h1>
Many people are "obsessed" with the hermit crab at the beginning, often because they have seen many beautiful pictures posted by others, of which the highest value can be said to be the strawberry hermit crab, and I entered the pit because I saw its picture
Strawberry hermit crab photo, real drops are very much like a big strawberry, so beautiful (. ･ω･｡ )ﾉ♡
However, the choice of hermit crab can not only look at the appearance, such as strawberries, although it has a fairy appearance, but the environment is demanding, and wild species are endangered because of artificial over-capture of environmental damage, so it is not the best choice for novices to "practice"
About the breed of good breeding, some people say short wrists, some people say dark purple, some people say concave feet, but the most recommended is the most common gray and white hermit crab, one reason is that gray is currently the most common terrestrial hermit crab species in China, the price is cheap and there is no endangered risk, and the biggest feature is that the body color is changeable, black, white, gray, red, blue, pink, orange, green, purple, as long as there is a pair of eyes that are good at finding, almost can be found, like my own breeding of gray and white, It is two reds, one blue-green and one dark gray, and their body color may change randomly as they peel, such as red will turn blue, magical little animals
The photos have color differences, in fact they are more vivid in color!
I belong to the strawberries brought into the pit, the result of the final deep love of gray people hahaha, if this can make many people who are ready to raise hermit crabs to change the gray white, and gray is very lively and bold, play in the hand they will not always hide in the shell and do not come out (but still can not be too frequent to get started)
Wait until the rattan I bought tomorrow climbs to the top, and then share with you the renovated tank, which is currently like this (〃ノωノ)
If you have a friend who is interested in hermit crabs, you can exchange experience ducks together