Fluker's Hermit Beach Sand Substrate, 6-lb bag
Fluker’s Hermit Beach Sand Substrate is the key to keeping your hermit crab happy and healthy through her entire lifespan. This mixture is a perfectly balanced blend of carefully selected, natural materials, including sand, coconut fiber, salt and calcium carbonate, to provide a great consistency for burrowing. Probiotic is also added to help with the breaking down of organic waste, keeping your hermit crab’s habitat clean. This blend is made to be non-stick, with no harmful colors or dyes added.
Key Benefits- Premium blend of natural sand, coconut fiber, calcium carbonate, sea salt mix and probiotics is the superior choice for healthy land hermit crabs
- Promote natural tunnel digging & healthy molting. Hermit crabs dig to hunt for food and when it is time to molt. It is very important to fill your crab's habitat with enough moist sand for the molting process. The deep moist sand protects your crab during the molting process and prevents dehydration, which is vital for your crab's longevity.
- Silica sand packs well and the coconut fiber helps with water retention. Calcium and sea salt replicate the exact sand hermit crabs find in their natural environment. Probiotics (beneficial bacteria) help maintain a clean environment.
- Non-stick blend won't cling to your crab like calcium carbonate "sand"
- No harmful colors or dyes added
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Item Number101641
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Brand
Fluker's
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Litter & Bedding Type
Sand
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Reptile Type
Hermit Crab
Fill tank evenly with Fluker's Premium Sand. The minimum depth should be at least three times the size of your largest hermit crab. Moisten the sand with purified water so it packs well. (The consistency should be what you would use to build a sand castle.) Once installed, you should check the substrate periodically to ensure that it stays moist.
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By Montana97 on Aug 25, 2018
Calcium sand is not good for crabs! If you want to glue them in their shells, then by all mean, go for it. If ypu want to over spend on sand, go for it. Or you can just use regular child's play sand and get a brick of compressed eco earth, and mix it to a sand castle consistency of a 5:1 ratio (5parts sand to 1 part ee)
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By S0phia on Jun 5, 2018
This product is amazing! The sand is not like the calcium sand you would expect it would be. The sand contains lots of moisture which is amazing for the crabs and does NOT harden when misted. It has the coconut fibers that the crabs need while still being a sandy substrate that crabs are familiar with. Great job Fluker's!
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By Tonya on Jul 23, 2018
I bought my one year old grandson a toy fish pond and sandbox so I bought the beach sand to go in it.
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By masslady on Apr 15, 2018 Top 500 Contributor
I have the large hermies & the small in a, smaller tank, they all love this sand.
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By Jemm on Mar 7, 2018
This is the best crab substrate around. I mix it 50/50 with eco earth and it’s great
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By Zoma2001 on Dec 5, 2017
My hermies love this sand and burrow constantly. It retains it's moisture, and I have never had any issue with smells or molds.
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By Kellie on Aug 22, 2017
So far so good I tried this for the first time and they seem to happy with the change. I was just useing calcium colored sand plus coconut fiber substrate and it would stick to them but this has not. Ill know for sure when one goes to molt but they seem to like it more that the previous substrate.
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By Brien on Nov 30, 2017
My two hermit crabs love this! They startes digging as soon as I put it in their habitat.
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By Netta on Oct 5, 2017
Sand was very moist when it arrived has been in my tank about 3 weeks and I have yet to need to mist it. Does well with humidity.
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By KermittheHermit on Sep 18, 2017
Was pleased with everything from start to finish! The website was easy. The shipping was fast and the product is loved by our hermits!
