Hungry, Hungry Hippos--er, Hermit Crabs
Last night after I'd gone to bed, apparently almost all the hermit crabs were out and about, so Mike put some freeze dried crickets in the tank.
They must have had a PARTY with those things because when I woke up this morning there was hardly a whole cricket to be found, just bits of something freeze dried littering the tank. I guessed crickets from the various bits, but I had to ask to be sure. Mike was amazed, he said he'd accidentally tipped in way more than he'd meant to, and there was still hardly a whole cricket to be found. I had to do some major spot cleaning to get most of the cricket parts.
Tonight's another party in the food dish. The dry food dish has crushed mixed nuts and seeds (I remember walnuts, almonds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds... maybe a couple more - I spent a couple of hours watching food tv, crushing seeds and nuts with my mortar and pestle one day), dried shredded coconut, dried cranberries, dried papayas and kelp powder.
The fresh food dish is an unassembled fruit n fish salad. Chunks of coconut, sweet potato, mango, smelt, and a cube of thawed plankton with some wakame threads for "greens" (all fresh/thawed except the seaweed).
So far, they're digging the dry food for sure, but nuts and coconut are both particular favorites. I expect more activity in the fresh food dish in a little bit once it all has a chance to come to tropical temperature (I left it out for awhile, but it was still a little chilly when it went in the tank).
I also got all my freezer crab food reorganized. I have been keeping "everything" in a tupperware in the freezer, but not everything fit (the packets of cubed frozen fish food especially), and since the container was always hard to get to (it had to go on bottom due to its shape and size), I was putting off thawing food for the hermit crabs, or making excuses not to have to. And sometimes if it got put away before everything got back in it, little baggies of this and that would get scattered around the freezer.
I think the new way will work a lot better. All the frozen fish food packets are in a big ziplock on the freezer door because we need those every day for the fiddler/red claw tank, and everything else is in a big ziplock on the TOP of the people food. The smelt bag (I got TONS it will take years to go through them with the hermit crabs!) is still on bottom though... Oh well.
They must have had a PARTY with those things because when I woke up this morning there was hardly a whole cricket to be found, just bits of something freeze dried littering the tank. I guessed crickets from the various bits, but I had to ask to be sure. Mike was amazed, he said he'd accidentally tipped in way more than he'd meant to, and there was still hardly a whole cricket to be found. I had to do some major spot cleaning to get most of the cricket parts.
Tonight's another party in the food dish. The dry food dish has crushed mixed nuts and seeds (I remember walnuts, almonds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds... maybe a couple more - I spent a couple of hours watching food tv, crushing seeds and nuts with my mortar and pestle one day), dried shredded coconut, dried cranberries, dried papayas and kelp powder.
The fresh food dish is an unassembled fruit n fish salad. Chunks of coconut, sweet potato, mango, smelt, and a cube of thawed plankton with some wakame threads for "greens" (all fresh/thawed except the seaweed).
So far, they're digging the dry food for sure, but nuts and coconut are both particular favorites. I expect more activity in the fresh food dish in a little bit once it all has a chance to come to tropical temperature (I left it out for awhile, but it was still a little chilly when it went in the tank).
I also got all my freezer crab food reorganized. I have been keeping "everything" in a tupperware in the freezer, but not everything fit (the packets of cubed frozen fish food especially), and since the container was always hard to get to (it had to go on bottom due to its shape and size), I was putting off thawing food for the hermit crabs, or making excuses not to have to. And sometimes if it got put away before everything got back in it, little baggies of this and that would get scattered around the freezer.
I think the new way will work a lot better. All the frozen fish food packets are in a big ziplock on the freezer door because we need those every day for the fiddler/red claw tank, and everything else is in a big ziplock on the TOP of the people food. The smelt bag (I got TONS it will take years to go through them with the hermit crabs!) is still on bottom though... Oh well.
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