Is it okay to use distilled water to bathe my hermit crab?
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Bathing is stressful and un-necessary for your hermit crabs.. why would you do that?? It is becoming a myth more and more everyday. The ill effects far outweigh any supposvie benefit.
Hermit crabs carry no harmful bacteria, no diseases or infections and nothing communicable. they do not get dirty, except for the sand and or coco-fiber bedding in their tank.
Bathing is a known cause of extreme stress, they are being forced by their owner to do something so unnatural to them, it is a cruel thing to put them through.
They are in fact wild exotic tropical terrestrial crustaceans and since they are wild and always will be.. this is so nunatural. in their wild habitat they do not have large hands picking them up and dunking them into big dishes of water!
If you provide both fresh and natural marine/oceanic de-chlorinated water pools that are big enough for them to fully submerse in then they can clean themselves at their timing and their leisure and when they feel they need to.
So, please allow them to be as natural as possible, that is responsible pet ownership when it comes to caring for this type of creature. They are not a typical pet and definatly not a toy.
People claim their hermit crabs enjoy a bath, but how do they know?? Sure the crab may get more active and climb about, but it has no choice, and very well may be in a panic trying to escape. Then people wonder why their hermit crabs die within a year or less.
We have studied and observed the effects of bathing and not bathing and have found the fact remains, bathing, forceful bathing causes in many cases deadly stress, dropped limbs, disturbed molting cycles etc etc.
People who regularly bathe their hermit crabs do not allow them to properly or fully de-stress and if in pre-molt and handled they can die. One must know all of the pre-molt signs to determine if the crab should be handled or not.
De-stilled water is fine, battled spring water is fine.. for drinking and water pools.
i think so but just in case puify it
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