Foods for moulting

[csw5]

I was woundering what would be some good foods for my crabs for moulting.

[krabby_katie]

Well, basically anything with calcium. It helps a lot in their molts. I also found a recipe somewhere online... I don't remember where, but here it is:

Molter Food:
2 large cuttlebones
1 cup dried rice (any non-instant type)
1/2 cup unflavored non-instant grits (optional)
1 cup unflavored oatmeal
1 tsp. salt, uniodized*
1/4 cup commercial crab food (optional)
*iodine is poisonous to hermit crabs. Do not use table salt, but sea salt or aquarium salt

Break up the cuttlebones with your hands into nickel-or-dime-size chunks. Using an electric coffee grinder, powder them. Sometimes they get stuck in the blades -- if so, stop grinding and poke them out of the blades and continue grinding. Take all remaining ingredients and grind them into fine powder (except salt of course!). You may add other things you think your crabs will enjoy, such as cornmeal, cracker meal, bread crumbs (unflavored), etc.

I have yet to try this one out myself. I'll get around to it if one of them ever start molting. If you do happen to try it, let me know how it works out.

[iluvhermies]

Some other calcium rich foods are brocolli canned salmon with bones dreied beans and peas greens sardines. Greens must be cooked in dechlorinated water. The best things are sea vegetables, macroalgaes (seaweed) and microalgaes (spirulina) from Julia crab

others include
cuttlebone, calicium vitamins (reptile section) crushed oyster shell coral sand egg shells not sure where that came from.

Molter Food:
2 large cuttlebones
1 cup dried rice (any non-instant type)
1/2 cup unflavored non-instant grits (optional)
1 cup unflavored oatmeal
1 tsp. salt, uniodized*
1/4 cup commercial crab food (optional)
*iodine is poisonous to hermit crabs. Do not use table salt, but sea salt or aquarium salt

Break up the cuttlebones with your hands into nickel-or-dime-size chunks. Using an electric coffee grinder, powder them. Sometimes they get stuck in the blades -- if so, stop grinding and poke them out of the blades and continue grinding. Take all remaining ingredients and grind them into fine powder (except salt of course!). You may add other things you think your crabs will enjoy, such as cornmeal, cracker meal, bread crumbs (unflavored), etc.

This is from http://www.hermit-crabs.com/food.html

I have never tried it either but I have it in my binder

[bluconspiracy]

I just got a pre molt and post molt mix from the happy hermit crab

http://www.thehappyhermitcrab.com/catal ... ab_Kibbles