At The Happy Hermie we have over 44 different foods on offer! But sometimes it can be confusing to know which foods to offer to cover your Hermit Crabs huge nutritional needs.
Below we will cover what foods to offer to cover their entire dietary needs.
Most of our foods will cover more than 1 dietary need, so they will be listed more than once.
PROTEIN
Protein should make up 50% of your Hermit Crabs diet, half of the foods you offer them should be from this list below.
Protein Punch
Creepy Crawlers
Sweet Chilli Chicken
Cashew Chicken
Beef Up
Big Breakfast
Seafood Deluxe
Super Sushi
Fish Feast
Scrambled Eggs
Sea Salad
Black Solider Fly Larvae
Meal Worms
Three Little Piggies
Meat Soaked & Toasted Oats
Crab Stew
Duck & Roo Pasta
Christmas Lunch
Greener Pastures
Calcium Cocktail
Oh Deer
Puffed Millet
Cardio Cuisine
Under The Sea
Critter Crunch
Feelin' Clucky
Buffalo & Beef Liver Bolognese
CAROTENOIDS - BETA-CAROTENE (FRUITS & VEGETABLES)
Carotenoids should be offered at every meal, atleast 1-2 of the foods listed below.
Summer Smoothie
Fruit Salad
Date & Apple Pie
Bananarama
Veg Out
Mixed Veggies
Tropical Fruit Punch
Sweet Potato Puff
Pink Puffs
Bircher Muesli
Three Little Piggies
Crab Stew
Berry Nice
Christmas Lunch
Spiced Pumpkin Pie
Christmas Pudding
Plum Pudding
Veggie Vibes
Mango Tango
Greener Pastures
Fruity Flower Pop
Pink Dragon
Colourful Crabby Colour Booster
Blue Hawaiian
Berry Bouquet
Green Salad
CALCIUM
Calcium Supplements should be on offer in the tank everyday, at all times. You can also add in these extra Calcium rich foods listed below.
Star Dust
Calcium Crunch
Crunchy Munch
Complete Calcium
Greener Pastures
Calcium Cocktail
Cardio Cuisine
Under The Sea
Critter Crunch
Foraging Feast
Blue Hawaiian
Black Soldier Fly Larvae
Meal Worms
Blackstrap Molasses
Supplement Versions
Cuttlefish Bone
Sea Urchins
Star Fish
Sand Dollars
OMEGA 3 FATTY ACIDS
Omega 3 is extremely important and should be offered at every meal, offer atleast 1 of the foods listed below at every meal.
Fat Crab
Nut & Seed Nibble Mix
Crabby Trail Mix
That's Nuts
Bircher Museli
Fish Feast
Meat Soaked & Toasted Oats
Chubby Crab Paste
Duck & Roo Pasta
Christmas Pudding
Plum Pudding
Calcium Cocktail
Cardio Cuisine
Under The Sea
The Nutty Professor
Green Salad
Oils - Sesame, Avocado, Truffle, Macadamia, Flaxseed, Hemp Seed, Coconut, Peanut, Sunflower, Walnut, Almond, Olive, Pumpkin Seed.
FIBRE
Fibre should be offered at every meal, this can be found in many of the other meals listed above such as.
Sweet Potato Puff
Date & Apple Pie
Crabby Candy
PB&J Chunky Pop
Pink Chunky Pop
Blue Chunky Pop
Green Chunky Pop
Purple Chunky Pop
Yellow Chunky Pop
Bananarama
Sea Salad
Pink Puffs
Bircher Museli
Three Little Piggies
Meat Soaked & Toasted Oats
Berry Nice
Duck & Roo Pasta
Christmas Pudding
Plum Pudding
Veggie Vibes
Mango Tango
Greener Pastures
Fruity Flower Pop
Oh Deer
Puffed Millet
Cardio Cuisine
Pink Dragon
The Nutty Professor
Foraging Feast
Buffalo & Beef Liver Bolognese
CARBOHYDRATES
Carbohydrates give quick energy boosts and should be offered at every meal from the list below.
Date & Apple Pie
That's Nuts
Big Breakfast
Veg Out
Sea Salad
Pink Puffs
Bircher Museli
Three Little Piggies
Crab Stew
Berry Nice
Duck & Roo Pasta
Meat Soaked & Toasted Oats
Mango Tango
Fruity Flower Pop
Oh Deer
Puffed Millet
Cardio Cuisine
Pink Dragon
Foraging Feast
Buffalo & Beef Liver Bolognese
FORAGED FOODS
Foraged foods encourage natural scavenging behaviour and offer lots of vitamins and minerals. Similar to the diet they have in the wild. These should be on offer regularly in your tank.
Leaf Litter
Flower Power
Calcium Crunch
Sea Salad
Bee's In The Garden
Greener Pastures
Fruity Flower Pop
Under The Sea
Hippi High
Foraging Feast
Feelin' Clucky
Berry Bouquet
Green Salad
ANTHOCYANINS
Anthocyanins are foods rich in natural colours, and have a colour enhancing effect in your Hermit Crabs exoskeleton. These foods are extremely healthy and offer lots of necessary vitamins and minerals.
Veg Out
Date & Apple Pie
Summer Smoothie
Berry Nice
Christmas Pudding
Sweet Potato Puff
Mixed Veggies
Veggie Vibes
Star Dust
Pink Dragon
Colourful Crabby Colour Booster
Berry Bouquet
SUPPLEMENTS
Supplements should ALWAYS be on offer in your tank, at all times. These offer the vitamins and minerals that they will not get from other foods.
Greensand
Worm Castings
Insect Frass
5 in 1 Super Calcium Supplement
A Calcium Supplement (Star Fish, Sea Urchin, Cuttlefish Bone, Sand Dollar)
AQUATIC PLANT MATTER
Similar to what they eat in the wild, these should be apart of your crabs regular diet.
Super Sushi
Seafood Deluxe
Sea Salad
Under The Sea
OTHERS
Other foods include vacation mixes for when you are away, emergency mixes and extra nutrient rich foods offered during an emergency such as a weak crab, a surface moulting crab or a naked crab, as well as crabs fresh from a moult and those with limb loss.
Also included are Hermit Crab Treats - not a nessessary food item, but a fun, delicious treat for your crabbies.
Vacation Mix
SOS Emergency Mix
Blackstrap Molasses
Bee Pollen
Organic Honey
TREATS -
Hermie Bliss Balls
Meat Soaked & Toasted Oats
Green Chunky Pop
Blue Chunky Pop
Pink Chunky Pop
PB & J Chunky Pop
Purple Chunky Pop
Yellow Chunky Pop
Puffed Millet
How much would you actually feed them, per hermit crab, from one pre-mixture?
I'm seeing people suggest 1/8th tsp per crab, so, would you add 1/8th tsp protein mix per other (calcium, omega-3 fat, beta-carotene and anthocyanin, carbohydrates and fibre) mixture or would you cut the other mixtures to 1/32th tsp per crab?