Last spring I sold a lot of the crabby garden seed packs.  It's a lot of fun to grow your own safe food for your crabs and they enjoy it too. Last month when I upgraded to the 90 gallon I mixed a variety of seeds in with the top inch of substrate before I put the decorations in. It worked out really well and now that it has been a few weeks you can see that my crabitat has taken on a distictly more "natural" look.

If you want to add seeds to your tank, there are a couple of things that you need to make sure of before starting.

1. The seeds. You need to be careful what type of seeds you are using. They need to be a plant that hermit crabs can safely eat. Some great starter seeds are wheat grass, millet, amaranth, clover, turnip, and bean sprout. Just mix them in with the top layer of your substrate and make sure you've got some good light coming into the tank.

2. The quality of the seeds. Some seeds are coated with anti-fungal chemical and germination aids. Make sure that your seeds are organic or are untreated.

And that's it! It's just that easy. Plant lots, the crab will eat it quickly. It works better in fiber bedding than it does in sand. If you've got a sand tank, you can plant some in a small container of fiber bedding and grow your own little crabby farm, just for their pleasure! I will be selling more seeds this spring, and hopefully will soon have some clover and millet pictures to share!