Recently, I got a new hermit and I guess you can call my tank an ISO tank. What are the best food for crabs in ISO?
I just put my hermit crab in isolation too and I've been searching the same topic as you, and from what I found so far everyone seems to recommend: high protein and energy foods. Honey. Peanut utter. Molasses. And here's the long list: Acorns Agave Alfalfa Almonds Aloe Amaranth Anchovy oil Apples and natural unsweetened apple sauce Apricot Arame (seaweed) Artichokes Ash Wood Asian Pear Asparagus Avocado Bamboo Banana Barley Basil, whole plant Beans Bee pollen Beef, unseasoned Beets (whole plant) Bell peppers Birch Wood Bison Blackberries, leaves & flowers Blackstrap molasses (unsulfured) - amazingly high in nutrients such as calcium and potassium; 1-2 times monthly Bladderwrack Bloodworms (alive or dead) Blueberries Borage blossoms (Borago officinalis) Broccoli and leaves Brown rice Brussels sprouts Burning Bush (entire plant) Buttercup (only when dried) Cabbage (all varieties) Calcium carbonate powder, plain Calendula flowers (Calendula officinalis)-Also known as "pot marigolds" Camellia (Camellia japonica) Canteloupe Caribou Carnation flowers (Dianthus caryophyllus) Carrots and carrot tops Cashiews, unsalted Catappa Leaves (do not confuse with Catalpa or Catawpa!) Catfish Cauliflower and leaves Celery (all parts) Cereal; Brown rice, soy, wheat or 7 grain, muesli Chamomile flowers Chard Cheese (be sure to get all natural varieties, serve as occasional treat) Cherimoya Cherry, fruit and wood Chestnuts Chia Chicken, cooked and unseasoned (smash the bone for marrow access) Chickpea Chickweed Cholla wood Cilantro Citrus (all fruits) Claci worms Clams Clover blossoms and leaves Cochineal Coconut meat, oil, water, and shells Cod liver oil Cod Collards Coral, untreated Cork bark Corn (on the cob, too) Cornmeal Crabapple Cranberries Crickets Crustaceans (any and all crustacea including crayfish, lobster, shrimp and other crabs) Cucumber Currants Cuttlefish Dairy products (milk, cheese, live-culture yogurt) ** Daisies (Bellis perennis) Dandelion flowers, leaves and roots (Taraxacum officinale) Dates Day lilies (Hemerocallis) Duck Earthworms (collected away from pesticides) Edamame (soybean) Egg and Eggshells, cooked Eggplant Elderberry flowers (Sambucus canadensis) Elk Extra-virgin olive oil Feces (any animal feces wild or domestic that has a healthy (and preferably whole foods) diet and is not on any medication now or in the near past) Feeder cockroaches, dead Fennel Fig Filberts Fish flakes w/out chemical preservatives Fish Oil Fish, all species Flax seed oil (small amounts infrequently) Flax seeds/Linseeds Flounder Frozen fish food (esp. algae, krill and brine shrimp) Garbanzos Gladiolus (Gladiolus spp.) Goji berries Goliath worms Gooseberry Grape Leaf Grapefruit Grapes Grapevine (vines and root) Grasshoppers, dead or dried Green Beans Guava Halibut Hazel leaves Hazelnuts Hemp Hempseed Meal Hibiscus flowers (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) Hikari products: brine shrimp, krill, crab cuisine, sea plankton (no preservatives) Hollyhock flowers Honey (organic, or at least locally produced, for anti-microbials) Honeybush Honeydew Melon Honeysuckle flowers (Japanese Lonicera japonica) Horn Melon (Kiwano or Jelly Melon) Hornworms, feeders only (never wild caught) Hot pepper Huckleberries/Bilberries Indian Almond Leaves Impatiens (Impatiens wallerana) Irish Moss Japanese Maple, leaves or branches, dried or fresh (Acer palmatum) Jasmine flowers (Jasmine officinale) Jicama Johnny-Jump-Up flowers--(Viola tricolor) Kale Kamut Kelp Kiwi Kohlrabi Krill Lavar (seaweed) Lentils Lettuce (organic only. has little nutrition) Lilac, flowers, branches and leaves (Syringa vulgaris) Lima Beans Liver, unseasoned Lobster with crushed exoskeleton Locusts Lychee fruit (fresh; no kernel) Macadamia nuts Madrona wood Mango Mangrove (small live trees can be obtained on eBay, use in water basin) Maple leaves and branches, all species Maple syrup Marion Berries Mealworms, live, dead or dried Milk thistle flowers (Silybum marianum) Millet Mint Moose Mopani Wood Most organic baby foods Mulberry Muscadine (grapes) Mushrooms, all types edible for humans Mussels Nasturtium flowers (Tropaeolum majus) Nectarines Nettle, stinging (pour boiling water over leaves first) Oak Leaves and bark Oats Octopus Okra Olives and olive oil (extra virgin) Oranges Oysters Pansy flowers and leaves (Viola X Wittrockiana) Papaya Parsley Parsnip, root and greens Passionflowers (Passifloraceae - passion flower family) Passionfruit Pasta, no added salt or preservates Peaches Peanut butter (avoid sugar, corn syrup and hydrogenated oils) Peanuts and shells Pears Peas Pecan bark Pecans Peonies Persimmon Petunia blossoms Phoenix worms Pickling cucumbers (Pickles), raw or dried Pimentos, no salt or preservatives Pine Cones Pineapple Pistachio nuts Plankton Plantain Plum Pomegranate Popcorn (unseasoned, unflavored, unbuttered) Pork, unseasoned (no ham) Potato (no green parts, including eyes) Prickly Pear (fruit and cactus) Psyllium & husks Pumpkin, plus entire plant (flowers, seeds, stems & leaves) Purslane (Portulaca oleracea) Quinoa (New World grain) Radish, roots and greens Raisins (no sulphur dioxide) Rasberries Red raspberry leaves (highest bioavailable calcium source + vit. C and trace minerals) Reindeer Rolled Oats Rooibus (or rooibos) Roquette (Eruca vesicaria) Rose (entire plant) Rowan Royal Jelly Rubarb (stems only - leaves are poisonous!) Russian Olive leaves (Elaeagnus angustifolia) Safflower Oil Sage blossoms (Salvia officinalis) Salmon Sand dollars, untreated Sardines (canned in water, no salt) Sardines Scallops Sea biscuits, untreated Sea fan, untreated Sea grasses Sea Horses, untreated Sea salt Sea Sponges Sea Urchans, untreated Seaweed Semolina Sesame oil (in tiny amounts as appetite stimulant) Sesame seeds (crushed) Shrimp and exoskeletons, all types Silkworms Snails (use human food grade only; not wild snails) Sorghum Sorrel (Rumex acetosa) Soy and soy products (human grade; miso, tofu, etc.) Spelt Spinach Spirulina (complete protein and chlorophyll source; highest in beta carotene) Sprouts (flax, wheat, bean, alfalfa, etc.) Squash (and squash blossom) Squid Star fruit (carambola) Starfish, untreated Strawberry and tops Sugar cane Sunflower Seeds (crushed), flowers and leaves (Helianthus) Superworms Swamp cypress wood (false cypress, taxodium sp.) Sweet potato Sweetgum Sycamore leaf Tahini (no garlic variety) Tamarillo Tangelo Tangerine Thimble Berry Tilapia Timothy hay Tomato Tomatillo Tree Fern Triticale Trout Tulip flowers (Tulipa spp.) Tuna Turkey Turnip, roots and greens Ugli Fruit (Tangelo) Venison Viola flowers Violet flowers (Viola odorata) Walnuts Wasa All-Natural Crispbread (Oat flavor) Watercress Watermelon Wax worms, live or dead Wheat germ Wheat grass Wheat Whitefish Whole Wheat Couscous Wild rice Worm Castings (organic) Zucchini (and zucchini flowers)
