Crab Salad!

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Re: Crab Salad!

Post by emmac350 »

Sand in/all over the food, food dragged all over the tank, one kind of food missing (I have never found some things still).
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Re: Crab Salad!

Post by xXxEmilixXx »

Mr.Crab wrote:
emmac350 wrote:You know, my crabs love celery too. I gave them from the little stalks at the middle of the bunch, and they even dragged some of the baby celery leaves under the sand with them.
Haha cute, my crabs do that sometimes with little peices of banana and it gets messy with the sand.
Trust me, DO NOT leave banana over night in the food dish! The first and last time I gave my hermies banana was when it become all MOLDY :(
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Re: Crab Salad!

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Food becomes moldy when the humidity in your tank is too high. If the humidity is over 80% your food will mold much more than if it is in the 70-79% range. I can leave banana, zucchini, eggplant, fresh shrimps, any fresh food really overnight (up to 24 hours straight in the tank) without mold issues. So the food itself isn't the cause for mold - the mold grows because of too high of humidity levels.
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Re: Crab Salad!

Post by ladybug15057 »

I agree with Emma, as well as lack of air circulating within the tank.
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