Feeding and Nutrition :: Crab Block

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Post Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 7:19 am   Crab Block

My local pet store sells this Hagen Crabworx Hermit Crab Health Block. Is this something a turtle would benefit from?

The indgredients are: calcium sulfate, fish meal, corn meal, wheat flour, soybean meal, wheat gluten meal, fish bone meal, dried yeast, salt, choline chloride, vitamin A acetate, vitamins D3 and E supplements, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, vitamin B12 supplement, L-ascorbyl-2 phosphate (source of vit. C), calcium pantothenate, inositol, folic acid, biotin, niacin, copper sulfate, calcium carbonate, dicalcium phosphate, manganous oxide, iron carbonate, zinc oxide, calcium iodate, cobalt carbonate.
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Post Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 10:03 am   Re: Crab Block

I'm not fond of these kinds of release products used for RES (made for turtles or not). It probably wouldn't hurt but there are much better alternatives.
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Post Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:07 pm   Re: Crab Block

Thanks for the reply - got some cuttlebone instead.
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