The mulberry trees are bursting right now, but they won't fruit for long. So, be sure to harvest as many as you'll need this year--NOW! The leaves and bark are also edible for crabs as well.
The berries can be dried or frozen for later use. My crabs don't like berries very well, but I mix them into other foods so that they get the antioxidants and other nutrients.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Toy Austrailian Shepherds
Many of you may know what a help my cousin has been in providing wild harvested ingredients for Crabotanicals. Well, her true passions are horses and dogs. She has a fabulous new website featuring Toy Australian Shepherds called Wild Horse Ranch Aussies! If you're a dog lover, check it out! Great photography of wild areas of Washington state as well!
Friday, December 19, 2008
Canned Foods--Is there any real risk?
Crabotanicals recommends avoiding canned foods unless the food cannot be found fresh or dried. Water chestnuts and black olives are well-liked by hermit crabs and are seldom available in any form but canned. There are many concerns related to canned food including human grade salt, preservatives, the leaching of metal, and now BPA. Even jarred food has some risk. Here's an interesting article.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Hermit Crab Smuggler
This was a sad news story that affects the integrity of our interest in hermit crabs. 191 smuggled hermit crabs.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Product: Color Surge
Ingredients: wild grape leaves, spinach, parsley, beet, basil, spirulina, coconut, walnuts, strawberry leaves, dandelion, quinoa, hibiscus, carrot, rose hip, kale.
COLOR SURGE Crabotanicals all-natural hermit crab food is made from hand-harvested wild grape leaves gathered in Colorado. Formulated with natual nut oils & foods rich in color-inhancing nutrients for maximum color. (Nutrition is an important factor that affects a hermit crab’s coloring. Colors and shades vary between each individual and from one species to another.)
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Comparison: Seed Savvy
Crabotanicals wants you to understand what you’re providing when you feed our products. To that end we’ve provided some nutritional information on some of the main ingredients of our product called Seed Savvy below. These figures aren’t in proportion to the serving size or the package itself since 100 grams of each ingredient would not fit into the bag. Still, we hope that this chart will help you to understand the strengths of certain foods incorporated into this product and get an overall feel for the way we combine various foods to compliment one another to create a balanced formula.
| (100grams) | ------ | Sun flower seeds | Pumpkin seeds | Amaranth grain | Sesame | Quinoa | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| copper | mg | 1.8 | .1 | .8 | 4.1 | .6 | |
| sodium | mg | 3 | 1 | 21 | 11 | 5 | |
| protein | gram | 22.8 | 1 | 14.5 | 17.7 | 14.1 | |
| A | IU | 50 | 7385 | 0 | 9 | 14 | |
| magnesium | mg | 354 | 12 | 266 | 351 | 197 | |
| betaine | mg | ? | ? | 7.6 | ? | 630 | |
| beta carotene | mcg | 30 | 3100 | ? | 5 | 8 | |
| calcium | mg | 116 | 21 | 153 | 975 | 47 | |
| omega3 | mg | 69 | 3 | 57 | 376 | 307 | |
| omega6 | mg | 32628 | 2 | 2834 | 21372 | 2977 | |
| zeanaxanthin | mcg | 0 | 1500 | ? | 0 | 163 |
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