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Safe and Unsafe Wood   

Written by Julia Crab   

Wednesday, 28 September 2005


Safe Woods for Crab Tanks


Here follows a list of woods that can be used safely in a hermit crab environment. These are non-toxic woods that won’t hurt them if eaten. This list, as all the others, is not in any way complete, and will be expanded as new information is received.

Cholla wood
Cork bark
Cypress (swamp variety, taxodium species)
Grape vine
Mangrove
Manzanita
Maple
Oak
Pear
Pecan
Sycamore

Unsafe Woods

Apricot
Bitter Almond
Boxwood
Cherry
Cherry Laurel
Eucalyptus
Evergreen of any kind (pine, cedar, redwood, etc.)
Hemlock
Laurel
Nectarine
Peach
Plum
Yew


(Also refer to the Inedible list for unsafe woods and plants)