subject: Maintaining Proper Hermit Crabs Humidity Ensures Your Pet Crab's Survival [print this page] Each of earths creatures are significant regarding their living requirements and situations they need to survive, just like fishes need water, and we human beings need air. Mother Nature has made specific requirements and conditions to be very much mandatory for thriving in the atmosphere of earth, similarly when we talk about hermit crab, they have their requirements too. While these little crabs are relatively easy to care for than other traditional household pets like the dog or cat, they do require certain critical elements to maintain proper health. Among many conditions required for this little unique creature, humidity and its appropriate levels play a major role.
The habitat for hermit crab needs to have a moist, tropical feel and a relative humidity that is no lower than 70 percent below it can make pet stressed and ill. Hermit crabs have gills to breathe, and you must keep the gills moist so they can work properly. Too dry air actually dries out their gills, making it increasingly difficult to breathe until they finally end up suffocating. A high humidity level in your hermit crabs habitat is essential for their health and well being, the proper hermit crabs humidity level simply requires that you remember to maintain the humidity daily with keeping a fresh clean dish of water in the hermit crabs habitat at all times. A shallow dish is enough to allow the crabs to get in and out of it anytime they want to.
Placing a combined thermometer and hygrometer in the habitat makes it convenient to check the parameters in your hermit crab the ideal range for both temperature and humidity is highlighted in yellow, too low is blue is and too high is red. This way it becomes easy to keep an eye on the proper conditions of humidity to be maintained for the pet. Place a natural sponge in a shallow dish of water if you need additional humidity. This way, the sponge will stay moist throughout the day and help keep the air humid, place.
These are some very simple tactics, to keep an apt level of hermit crab humidity, in the habitat, well it should always be ensured that these simple precautions are must to take, for your crab to have a healthy and long presence with you. You will have a happy and healthy crab for years to come when maintaining proper humidity.
