The All Natural
Hermit Crab Sourcebook by Stacey Arenella and Summer Michaelson
The All Natural Hermit Crab Sourcebook
is probably the most comprehensive and up to date book about hermit
crabs I've ever read. The authors have taken great pains to offer
fairly detailed care instructions, hobbyist-appropriate information
on biology and crab behaviors, as well as putting together a cook
book of recipes that make feeding your hermit crabs a healthy
diet fun and easy.
There are very few things brought up by this book
that should cause concern, however the authors' assertion that
distilled and reverse osmosis water should not be used in hermit
crab tanks is a very absolute take on a controversial subject.
While I've never used distilled or reverse osmosis water, I've
spoken to many hermit crab enthusiasts who do use them with no
ill effects. The problem the authors see with distilled and reverse
osmosis water is that the minerals have been removed from theme
- however, since land hermit crabs are not a primarily marine
species and do not live in the water most of their lives, I don't
believe that the lack of trace nutrients and minerals in reverse
osmosis and distilled waters will have an effect on the nutrition
of pet land hermit crabs.
This book is self-published, so it is not available
at large retailers like Petco or Amazon.com - it can currently
be found here.
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