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Hermit Crab Care by T.F.H. Publications
This book reads like an expansion of Paul
J. Nash's Land Hermit Crabs. It is by the same publisher and
does not list an author, so it may simply be an expanded version
of the same book, given a new title and some new cover art.
This book does go into a little more detail, especially
regarding hermit crab behaviors in their natural habitats, which
is interesting and illuminates certain behaviors that carry over
into their captive habitats.
Most of the advice in the book is fairly good, with
the same caveats I gave in the review for Land Hermit Crabs
- several paragraphs of this book are pulled verbatim from
Land Hermit Crabs, so it makes sense that they would
have similar problem areas.
Unlike in Land Hermit Crabs, however, they
do advocate giving a dish of salt water as well as a dish of fresh
water, which is good, however they also say you can make the salt
water using table salt, which is wrong and possibly harmful to
the hermit crabs since table salt (a) is often iodized (b) contains
anti-caking agents which may be harmful for hermit crabs. Hobbyists
and hermit crab experts recommend giving a dish of salt water
to hermit crabs, but only salt water intended for use in aquariums.
I definitely would recommend getting this one over
the Nash book - this book goes into much greater detail.
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