I have not heard of a hermie having diarrhea. The hermies here poo looks like the sausage type pictures, but a nice coffee brown. Depending on the hermies size, depends on the 'sausage' size.
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In the early, inexperienced stage of my crabbing I used to offer calci-sand as one of the hermie calcium supplements. I gave them pink sand and I found pink poo all over the tank. I think they make glow in the dark cali-sand, (doesn't sound too safe to me) but my guess is it would make the poo glow in the dark.
That is why we do not recommend that people use colored sands for their crabs...without a detailed list of everything in the sand, it isn't worth the risk to your hermies.
emmac350 wrote:That is why we do not recommend that people use colored sands for their crabs...without a detailed list of everything in the sand, it isn't worth the risk to your hermies.
yup..i never use it... they even have horrible scented sand.
A few years ago I remember some crabbers writing that their hermies were changing colors depending on the color of sand they use. This also at times showed in their poo, that means the hermies were also eating the sand. (natural thing for hermies to do, eat the substrate and why substrate is SO important to be a hermie safe one) But I did a few calls and e-mails a few years ago about the coloring in the sands, at one time I myself used the Estes Blue Ultra reef marine sand. Come to find that some of the colorings that are FDA approved for humans.... it is not truly known if they are even human safe much less hermie safe.
In the one article, what REALLY stood out to me is:
"Absolute safety of any substance can never be proven. Therefore, FDA must determine if there is a reasonable certainty of no harm from the color additive under its proposed conditions of use."
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wow...i think rule of thumb for hermies should be 100% natural sand/shells/food. look how much horror stories we have with hermies being caked to painted shells, and personally a hot pink crab is enough to make me panic,and get some new sand....also i read an article(i don't remember where.) that play sand has ALOT of lead in it, someone had taken a magnet stick and ran it through the sand and came up with metal/led fragments. so I'm really confused on choices.
Depending on the hermies size, depends on the 'sausage' size. 
so I'm really confused on choices.
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