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Please stop don't buy hermit crab hermit crabs are bad to own - um thank you for watching this video
I like to make my videos fun, and that's why I'm worried about this one
I always get nervous making these kind of videos because they aren't fun. They're more of sit down and listen, okay?
Like that it's it. Just it never comes across well, but I'm going to do it again
Hello, so first off. I don't even know where to start. Thank you for the 700,000 subscribers last time
I filmed I filmed two videos in one day and on that day. I was thanking everyone for
600,000 and now the next time I upload I'm already to 700,000 which is just insane I
really just I never ever ever imagined my channel being this big.
And the fact that it's continuously growing and means the world to me and it's amazing and I love you guys so much
And I can't thank you guys enough. Secondly, I have officially started up my vlog channel
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So this video as you can tell from the title is actually about hermit crabs. Which is an animal, I don't own.
I know people come to look at animals on my channel, and this one is gonna be animal list.
My bad. I've been wanting to make this video for a very long time because one of the first videos I ever put out on
My channel was like my very original room tour back when I had to see a few animals. What animals?
I had was hermit crabs. We can roll that tape roll it
Don't know who I'm talking to them alone in a room talking to a camera, but roll that tape animal number one
hedgehog
I
Love them both so very much
Since biggest hermit crab Godzilla are about the size of the palm of my hand a little bigger since there's no crab
I have four of them
Yeah
So first of all my hermit crabs weren't in the proper conditions that they were supposed to be and that's a whole other thing
I'm going to get into in a minute
But second of all I decided I hated owning hermit crabs and that I didn't want to do it anymore
So I found a wonderful home for them and from as far as I know they're still alive to this day
I just I couldn't take care of them anymore because I just I didn't feel comfortable
Based on what I have learned about hermit crabs
So I'm just going to get into it in this video about why I?
Personally don't own hermit crabs
and why I don't recommend them for someone looking for a pet why they are awful pets for children like I know a lot of
parents
Just go out and buy their kids hermit crabs because they think oh good first pet no if you do own one if you are
Kid watching this because I know a lot of kids comment telling me
I got a hermit crab obviously I'm not telling you to give it away. I'm not telling you you're bad for owning them
I had them to try your best to give them the best possible care
And I hope this video kind of helps you open your eyes and help you take care of them better
So here are 10 reasons
Why I think hermit crab suck as pets just a warning of animal Cruelty warning
I guess if you don't like hearing things that are bad about animals like
Abuse that they go through this video has a little bit of it um just wanted to warn you
The number one which is the main issue for me is the fact that they are not bred in captivity
It is somehow some ways possible for them to breed in captivity
But it is so rare that absolutely none of the hermit crabs you are buying it comes from this
Possibility of them breeding in Captivity all the hermit crabs you buy no matter where you're getting them from I don't care
where you bought them they were taken from the wild don't just get up and go release them if you don't want them as a
Pet anymore okay, they come from the Caribbean and they come from Ecuador. They don't come from your local
Texas Beach or wherever you are I am not a huge fan of peta I will say that
Openly ok I'm not a peta person there is a video by Peta
It does show where these hermit crabs come from and the process of getting them from the wild to the pet store?
And it's incredibly disturbing. It's the most disturbing part in my opinion is getting them from their ugly ugly
Natural wild Shell to their appealing
Painted shell for the kid you see art across some stores all the time and painted shells they have designs on them sometimes they look
Like characters you may recognize they did not pick them up in the wild from that and the hermit crabs did not decide. Oh
Instead of this natural rock. I'm living in I'd rather live in some painted plastic
They are forced out of their natural shell. There's a system
That's basically like a nutcracker that cracks the shell right off of them
And then they are tossed into a container of freshly painted shells where they must choose one or else
They just go Nikki
So why is it so bad for them to live in painted shells well first of all painted shells are incredibly irritating?
They chip in flake, and it really really irritates the huracan body
But second off most of the times when they are first initially put into the shell to be able to be sold on the road
They are either thrown into buckets like I said of freshly painted shells or they are literally?
Glued into them a lot of people will say my hermit crab with the paint that she'll never change the shell and it died really
quick but I did everything right there's a very good chance that the shell was painted while it was still on them and that when the
Paint dried is stuck to the actual hermit crab and they were not able to get back out
And then they died
slowly from stress now a lot of people also think that hermit crabs can just live in a little tiny container with sand and that's
All they need hurra crabs
Do need a heat source and a lot of people don't know that nor do they provide it
I recommend A
Under the tent heater and even a basking spot
Wouldn't hurt them one side of the tank needs to be at least eighty degrees and the other side can be their cool side which
Can be you know like seventy-six or seventy-five degrees it is very important
They least have half of their tank the eighty degrees another reason
They don't make good pets for kids is because of the humidity that is
important in a hermit crabs life their cage needs to either have some kind of humidifier or
Using this sit down multiple times a day which your child may not want to do their cage really does need to reach about 70
to 80% humidity
Twice a day fourth reason is you can't just throw some tap water?
from your sink
Into their cage and just think that's all they need they need two deep dishes that they're able to get in and out of easily
One that has salt water and one that has fresh water, but the fresh water needs to be purified
They can't have tap water the impurities from tap water get lodged into their digestive tract and build up
Basically their body gets filled up with Chunky rocks
And then they die six the reason is because you can't just throw in like calcium
Sand in their tank and that they're good
They need at least six inches of an Eco Earth mix you can use place and that you can get like the local
Home Depot, or something place and mix with Eco Earth is a very good combination
Eco Earth is the go-to thing for hermit crabs really they do like dirt. They don't need that fake
Calcium sand is really actually not good for them seven things that people don't know they are social animals
So you can't just get your little container and throw her a crab in there
and just think it's going to do great you will literally have a
Depressed hermit crab her have literally will not get up to seek food or water when they don't have another playmate
So you'll have a hermit crab just live on its own not eat enough not drink enough die this second one is
Super-important to me that no one ever tells people at pet stores
No one ever told people this when they buy a hermit crab hermit crabs molt basically they shed their exoskeleton
Basically what they do is. They bury themselves down in the sand you don't want to take them back out
You don't want to mess with them you leave them alone
they molt and their
Exoskeleton
Literally comes off of their body and hangs out of their shell a lot of people sadly thinks this means that their hermit crab is
Dead and pick it up, and they throw it in the trash no
it's not not dead a good way to tell between a multi hermit crab and a dead hermit crab is waiting for the molt to
Fall out of the shell or helping move it out
But you have to be very careful with that
And then you check in the shell look really far in the back for a little pink
Naked hermit crab if the entire body comes out when you remove the fallen moles
Then it's dead if it's just the front half of its body
It's just the moles in your room at crabs still alive, please don't throw it in the trash
It doesn't want to go and leave off in the sewer and become a giant
Mutant crab a very diet is super important in hermit crabs
This is actually one reason that hermit crabs may end up fighting each other and killing each other and of course the hermit crabs mages
Die on their own without a very diet, but without the proper diet
They really will seek out other hermit crabs and cannibalize them and eat them harder crabs are scavengers
So like I said when the time comes if they can't find what they need they will eat another hermit crab if they have too
Fresh or dried fruits and veggies mine loved bananas and coconut. You can give them dandelions. You can give them sunflower seeds
They need shrimp. They need fish some kind of protein meaty product
They like eggs use a freeze-dried crickets meal worm it's also good to give them some cuttlebone for calcium
They like to pick at it. It helps them is very important
They have all these items, so they will most properly and so they won't cannibalize and eat each other another common misconception
It goes back on
Arguing the fact that they're not social creatures and that they in fact don't like to be together like oh
My heart crab fights every other hermit crab that I put in the cage hermit crabs basically see with their little feelers
They're in tonight
Yes, they can see but this is their main source of getting to know their area
So they will get all over each other hermit crabs to like figure out who they are
It's perfectly normal for them to crawl under and on top of each other
fighting really begins in my opinion when you put them in too small of an enclosure or
when you don't feed them enough their enclosure should be big 20 gallons 4 to 40 gallons per for they actually need a lot of
Space they get really big and if they don't they fight hermit crabs
do need
Three shells per Hermit crab so they can pick what shell they want if they ever want to change the shell they all need to
be natural shells not painted as far as I have heard petco is getting rid of all wild caught animals by next year or by
20:19 is what I remember so no more hermit crabs will be sold at Petco
Which is awesome, but as far as I know pet smart isn't going to be stopping that anytime soon
But I just hope this opens your eyes and helps you become more aware of not to just buy animals just because they seem simple
Because no animal is simple. There's always some kind of work that goes behind them
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Okay, now that I'm done filming. I can turn all of my tank back on so it will be loud in here again
Irwin you want to say bye you want to end the video?
say bye, Irwin
What about you cheese you're covered in bubbles. Cheese is getting covered in bubbles as the fish tank turns back on.
Bubbles is a really hard word to say seriously, like whenever I say bubbles. I just sound so stupid.
Bubbles, I'm getting a new camera. So hopefully this focus issue will never happen again because it comes tomorrow yay. Byee