Care Test

[Angela]

NOTE: This care test is incomplete.

1. What is the minimum size for a hermit crab tank?
2. What kind of water should you offer your hermit crab?
3. What is the minimum temperature for your hermit crab?
4. What is the minimum humidity for your hermit crab?
5. How do you increase the humidity of your hermit crab tank?
6. How do you increase the temperature of your hermit crab tank?
7. How do you decrease the temperature of your hermit crab tank?
8. What sort of substrate should you use for your hermit crab?
9. What is the maximum temperature for your tank?
10. Should hermit crabs ever be housed in a wire cage?
11. Name at least five things that can stress out a hermit crab.
12. What are they symptoms of a stressed-out crab?

[Nathan DeWeese]

1. 10 gallons
2. 1 bowl un-chlorinated salt water ( not table salt) and 1 bowl un-chlorinated water
3. 70-85 degrees
4. 70-85%
5. use a water sprayer, moisten coconut bark substrate, use ventilated glass lid
6. add a mounted heater to the side of tank
7. remove a heater, move tank to cooler location
8. play-ground sand and coconut bark. No gravel.
9. 85
10. No! they need appropriate substrate, humidity and temp.
11. being alone, too dry, too cold, too hot, shell fights and insufficient nutrients
12. lethargy, losing limbs, burying self to de-stress

[Draconix527]

1. 20 Gallons
2. One bowl of unchlorinated salt water don't use table salt and a bowl of unchlorinated fresh water.
3. 70 - 85 degrees
4. 70 - 85%
5. Use a water sprayer
6. Add a heater to the side of the tank
7. Remove any heaters and move tank to a cooler location
8. Coconut husk and playground sand
9. 85
10. Never! That would be cruel to the poor little crabs!
11. Being alone, too hot, too cold, not enough water, shell fights and low nutrients

[Ariel Maurer]

1.) 10 gal then add 5 for each crab
2.) freshwater and salt water
3.) 72f
4.) 70-80%
5.) a mister and heating pad
6.) turn up the heating bad gradually
7.) decrease the heating pad gradually
8.) 6" premixed substrate
9.) 80f
10.) never it can't cold humidity and they can bite off paint
11.) holding/playing before a month of settling, not having an appropriate she'll size for the crab, other crabs being around while molting, temperature to high or to low, physically being removed from their shell,
12.) not eating, hiding them self under the sand, loss of limbs, not as active as other crabs, isolating them self in their shell.