Florida Marine Research SFM22432 Hermit Crab Deluxe Wire Cage Kit, Large

hermit crabs need humidity. only good for transporting or just playing with hermit crabs.

You would get a better product on the boardwalk. The bottom of the cage came off Avis soon as I took it out of the box and the top only has a tiny hole that opens instead of having the whole lid come off. I wish we would've bought a small fish tank.

THE BOTTOM PART WAS OFF, THE CAGE IS POOR QUALITY!!!

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We love this cage for our hermit crabs. They seem to like it too! We bought this after one of them escaped from another cage we had them in. I had one like this when I was a child and loved it then... so happy to have another for my children to use for their crabs :) Our crabs really like the little shack it comes with and they like climbing the walls of the cage. This is the only kind of cage I will ever buy for hermit crabs.

HELLO FELLOW CRAB OWNERS!Hermit crabs are awesome, fun, crazy pets. BUT there is a lot of information out there that is incorrect when it comes to their care needs. PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS CAGE. A lot of the things that hermit crabs need that this cage cannot provide...1. room to climb and roam2. hermit crabs need 3-6" of substrate (never use gravel) to dig into and burry themselves in to molt successfully.3. there is not enough room in this cage to have all the items that a crab needs. a. salt water dish b. fresh (declorinated) water dish c. food dish d. hide outs !4. this cage cannot hold in heat or humidity, which is vital in keeping hermies alive. Crabs have gills, they need to be able to keep them moist at all times.5. metal is TOXIC to hermit crabs. if they come into contact with it for a short amount of time, like when you are handling them and if they climb on something metal, that is fine, but their crabitat home should be metal free!6. GRAVEL IS BAD. gravel can cause damage to a hermit crabs legs, it can even cause them to break and/or fall off. ALSO gravel is not suitable for a substrate because hermit crabs need to be able to dig and completely cover their bodies to molt.you can use these for transporting your hermit crabs from pet store to home, or if you happen to move homes, this is safe for them in the car. Also, if you happen to have an aggressive crab, this is suitable to separate your crab and let him calm down before putting him back with the group. I personally have a ten gallon tank that I use to isolating an aggressive crab. If you have 1-2 hermit crabs, I have found a 10 gallon tank works good for a crabitat, if you plan on having more, go bigger! (a single hermit crab is rather cruel, they LOVE friends)ALSO, PLEASE DO NOT BUY PAINTED SHELLS FOR YOUR HERMIT CRABS -- THEY ARE TOXIC !!WWW.HERMIT-CRABS.COMis a great website, there is almost everything you need to know on this site alone,hermit crabs require a lot more than pet stores let on. but they are incredible pets, so if you have purchased ahermit crab for yourself or your child, please do some more research, it is not your fault that you have fallenfor the "hermit crabs only need water, pellet food, and a sponge" We all have to start somewhere. please do not let this steer you away from having hermit crabs because they are great pets, and once you put all the hard work into building a healthy crabitat and learning all the Do's and Don't(s) they are relatively easy to care for!

Marketing this for Hermit Crabs is abhorrent. Hermit Crabs need humidity, space, at least 6" of substrate to dig into for molting... so much this cage lacks.Please research before directing a living thing to this cage.

Do not waste your money on these cages. We have had Hermies for 3 years and no problems we then bought this cage and the crabs started getting stuck while climbing then falling down which is not good at all. These cages are unsafe and I wish my daughter could get her $38 back because she used her Christmas money to buy this item that was a total loss for my ten year old daughter. I recommend the tanks.