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Time to Clean

OK, so you figure, it's been a month and a half since you got your hermit crabs, and it's time to clean out their cage. but....HOW??????????
 
first, take all the extra shells out, and anything else that can be boiled. Boil them- not to much, but enough to kill any little microorganism that want to make your crab aquarim their permanent residence.
 
Take your crabs out and put them in something, somewhere safe. Somewhere you can clean their aquarim, but still watch them. If you're a teen or kid, get your Mom or dad to watch them(and probably, if you're burn-prone like me, to help with the boiling) Take all the sand and wooden objects out- put them in a pan and BAKE them. Anything that is more FLMISEY plastic- rinse under hothothotwater.
 
Take the aquarim and spray it down with a hose. Then, get cloth of some sort, get it sloppy with HOTHOT water, and scrub the aqaruim out.
 
Let everything cool off, put the stuff back in there, and place your hermies in their now squeaky clean home, and watch them run around!

MITES
 
mites are little bugs that you may find in your hermit crab aqaurim at some time. If you do, immediatly clean it, as you would regularly. Just make sure that you also bathe your hermit crabs before putting them back in.

DAILY CLEANING
 
things to do daily:
 
*Remove foodstuff from the sand
*wipe the walls of the aqaurim down with a damp papertowel
*replace all food
*wash the waterdish out

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