Molter food and Meatloaf

[Hannah]

Okay, these are two hermie recipes that I use. One is for molters, the other is a treat.
Molter Food 2 large cuttlebones
1 cup dried rice (any non-instant type)
1/2 cup unflavored non-instant grits (optional)
1 cup unflavored oatmeal
1 tsp. salt, uniodized*
1/4 cup commercial crab food (optional)
*iodine is poisonous to hermit crabs. Do not use table salt, but sea salt or aquarium salt

Break up the cuttlebones with your hands into nickel-or-dime-size chunks. Using an electric coffee grinder, powder them. Sometimes they get stuck in the blades -- if so, stop grinding and poke them out of the blades and continue grinding. Take all remaining ingredients and grind them into fine powder (except salt of course!). You may add other things you think your crabs will enjoy, such as cornmeal, cracker meal, bread crumbs (unflavored), etc.

Since this is VERY high in calcium (two whole large cuttlebones are a double-whammy), it is an excellent food for your crabs who are exhibiting molting signs or those who have recently molted.
The other recipe is in the Food and Nutrition forum, it is hermie-safe meatloaf.
I got the molter recipe from http://www.hermit-crabs.com and I made up the meatloaf recipe.