Fluker’s All Natural Premium Hermit Crab Sand Substrate, Sand Mixture with Coconut Fiber, For Hermit Crab Tanks, 6 lbs.
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Calling all hermit crab enthusiasts! Get ready for a beach party in your crab’s tank with Fluker’s Hermit Headquarters Premium Sand Substrate. Hermit crabs need a place to dig and burrow and this encourages just that with the perfect mix of sand, coconut fiber, sea salt, and calcium carbonate, all in one fantastic substrate blend. Developed by Hermit Crab Specialists, this substrate isn’t just about looking good—it’s a PARTY for your crabs! Probiotics are on the guest list, helping break down organic waste and keeping the habitat squeaky clean. No more crabby mess—just pure, sandy bliss. Create an island paradise for your hermits, complete with the ideal burrowing conditions. It’s like a luxury resort for your shell-dwelling pals, with a minimum sand depth that’s THREE times the size of your largest crab. Dive deep, molt successfully, and come out looking snazzy! Need some heat? This substrate is an excellent heat conductor, ensuring your crabs are living their best, warmest lives. Best of all – no harmful colors or dyes here! Fluker’s Premium Sand Substrate is an all-natural mix that keeps your crab’s habitat clean and healthy.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Product Dimensions : 12.5 x 8 x 1.5 inches; 6 Pounds
Manufacturer recommended age : 1 month and up
Item model number : 66027
Date First Available : August 25, 2014
Manufacturer : Fluker’s
ASIN : B00NG61JS2
Country of Origin : USA
Hermit Crab Bedding: Natural Sand Substrate is the perfect bedding, offering a mix of sand, coconut fiber, sea salt, calcium carbonate and natural probiotics to replicate their natural environment
Water Retention: This hermit crab sand substrate contains coconut fibers which aid with water retention, crucial for maintaining a healthy and comfortable hermit crab soil environment
Promotes Natural Behavior: The Fluker’s sand substrate encourages burrowing and natural digging in your sand for hermit crabs, essential behaviors during the molting process
Added Probiotics: Our hermit crab coconut fiber bedding includes added probiotics to breakdown organic waste This makes it an ideal hermit crab gravel, ensuring a clean and healthy habitat
Replicates Natural Sand: Resembles natural sand, including sea salt and calcium The perfect play sand for hermit crabs, it’s also ideal as hermit crab dirt or green sand for hermit crabs
Customers say
Customers find the sand to be good quality and suitable for hermit crabs. They consider it a great substitute for Hawaiian sand, which is illegal to use even in small amounts. Many customers appreciate its ease of cleaning, texture, and appearance. However, some have mixed opinions on moisture retention.
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Perfectly blended, premoistened substrate for crabbies.
This is by far the best premixed crab sand, but keep in mind that by volume 6 lbs of wet sand is not very much. I did not have this in mind and like a dummy, I was surprised, and upset that I spend this amount of money on not enough sand. Just be sure youâre ordering enough. Itâs great sand. No problem with the sand at all. The crab likes it. Itâs good quality and the right ratio of mix, but 12 lbs was barely enough to fill one half a 10 gallon tank, for a 1.5â crab. TLDR use your thinking skills before ordering, which I failed to do.
Brain Sturgeon –
Optimum substrate for hermit crabitats
This is an excellent, high quality substrate for hermit crabs– worlds better than the calcium carbonate sand or plain Eco Earth that the pet stores sell and use for their crabs. It comes well packaged (no leakage of sand) and is very easy to reconstitute (just add distilled or dechlorinated water). My 5 crabs are extremely happy and comfortable in this substrate, and it provides a very attractive and hygienic crabitat. It really does encourage burrowing behavior, which is extremely important for hermit crabs.
The one negative is the amount of substrate that you get for the cost. If you need several inches of substrate (3 x the depth of your largest crab, usually 5-6″ or so) in a larger terrarium (I use a 20 gallon long tank), then you will need a lot of bags of this. I bought 4 bags of this, and I would probably need more like 10-12 to fully fill my tank to the right depth. I found that you can actually make almost identical sand for much less cost just by doing it yourself. Get silica sand from your local pet shop (I found 20# bags of CaribSea sand for $7) or even just play sand, mix in Eco Earth (also available at any pet shop) in a 4-5 parts sand to 1 part EE ratio, mix in a few ounces of crushed oyster shell or crushed coral (available on Amazon or the pet store), and add salt water (mixed from Instant Ocean, also from the pet store) until it reaches “sand castle making consistency” (I found that it took about 700 cc of seawater per 20# of sand, although use your own judgement.) Bingo! A lot more of the same substrate (short of the “probiotic”, whatever that is) for a lot less. Takes a bit more work, but not much, and if you have kids, it’s a fun thing for them to mix up.
Otherwise, great product, and I would recommend it for all hermit crab enthusiasts. Your hermit crabs will survive much longer and happier with this substrate.
Lisa –
Perfect
Best sand for hermit crabs
Timothy Waugh –
Good stuff not expensive
So my hermit Mr. Crabs his name loves it
Amy Feitelson –
Great sand
The sand is great for my daughterâs hermit crab. It absorbs water well and the crab can dig easily.
Breanna Basler –
Moist
I like that this sand comes pre wet. It helps with immediate set up. I use this under my substrate. For my 2 hermit crabs. It has a smooth non gritty feeling. Very high quality. The only sand id ever use for my crabs.
zombiefamily69 –
Perfect substrate
Been doing a lot of research before we got our crabby’s. People have all these mixed things but I’ll tell you that our new crabbies have done great in the substrate. We did mixing some moss and some more coconut fiber.
Lauren –
Good sand
The bag was a lot smaller than I was expecting. Still a good product. No leakage from the bag. The smell was fine.
Tracey K. –
I found this an acceptable blend for my hermit crabs. It is a small quantity but I liked the texture as a topper once I got my play sand and coco coir mixed up. This doesnt dry out fast and it doesnt go rock hard. It stays a really nice sand castle consistency.
Cait –
I have three hermit crabs who just love this sand. It doesn’t clump or get caught in their shells and when its time for molting or burrowing under to sleep they do so with ease. Would recommend. Kind of expensive but it stays moist long rather than drying up.
Gale –
My crabs love this sand and it is pre-moist. Mabe not the cheapest, but to me the best. No need for mixing and all. Easy peasy.
Josée Racine Dolbec –
Sable de belle facture, ni trop fin ni trop gros. Mes hermits lâaime bien.
Good sand but way over priced –
Good quality but you can get two 50 pound bags of play sand (washed beach sand) also good quality from Home Depot for the same price as this 6 pound bag of flukers.. I understand shipping can be pricey but this over kill .. price on this stuff recently went up from $11 to almost $20 .. cmon flukers you gotta do better