Each animal has its Achilles heel, if you will. For
dogs is the flea, cats can have their own health issues, and for pet
hermit crabs, they are susceptible to infestation of mites hermit crabs.
These
are small and microscopic creatures that live crabs on your pet, and if
they go untreated for a long period, they can multiply and spread to
your other health concerns hermit crabs and the space which they are
held. They
can be very rude to deal with and so you want to have a proper care be
taken to avoid, as both attack and also to heal, so if you encounter a
problem.
Mites have the ability to infect and grow in environments, moist, wet, and humid, grow the same type of environment, pet hermit crabs and need to be healthy. Both mites and pet crabs require higher temperatures, such as in the tropics, and also require moist conditions up to 70 to 80 percent humidity.
Not allow the easiest way to such a question is to be treated, that it happened to begin, so try to avoid. Clean your terrarium or habitat often, cooking all the extra bowls, toys, dishes and also regularly when changing from the substrate to eggs, to prevent the set of mites. You will also want to take a bath to give your crabs twice a month to clean out the debris in the pan and keep their exoskeleton clean and moist.
If you get infected your pet crab with mites, is the first and most important thing is to isolate your infected crabs immediately if there is only one. Then immediately change the entire contents of her cage including the substrate, food and water. Also boil their water dishes, toys, and empty shells to make sure all the mites have been killed. Enter the isolated crab give a bath immediately with warm distilled water in a bowl. After bathing your crabs and turn them upside down under water, you will see the mites to swim on top of the water. When washing out the terrarium or cage you will see how well it floats. Make sure there are no signs of these creatures.
Only when all parts of the terrarium or cage are cleaned, you can bring all the crabs back together in their cage. By changing their food and water almost every day, protect problems with these pesky creatures....
