Feed your hermit crab a high-quality food that's specifically made for hermit crabs. Find it in your local pet store or online. Check the label on the food to see how much to feed them each day. You may want to alternate between several different foods. Hermit crabs love to have variety in their diet. Small crabs will usually need about 1 small spoonful of food per day. Avoid any food that contains copper sulfate or ethoxyquin. Hermit crabs are omnivorous scavengers that take advantage of any available food both in the wild and captivity. Always add natural food that they would eat in their natural habitat. Try feeding grapes, bananas, blueberries, and apples. They love tropical fruits found in their natural habitat, like mangoes, papaya, and coconut. Avoid giving them citrus fruits, like lemons or oranges. All vegetables except for onions and scallions are great for crabs. They especially enjoy carrots, lettuce, and spinach. Try giving plain cereals, rice, pasta, unsalted nuts, and rolled oats as treats once per week. Many hermit crabs also really enjoy ground flaxseed. Provide small pieces of meat for your crabs on a daily basis. Hermit crabs love picking meat off of bones. Any type of meat will do: turkey, beef, duck, lobster, catfish, or grubs. Be sure the meat is unseasoned and doesn't have any sauce, butter, salt, or oil on it. You can serve them raw or cooked. Land hermit crabs need a calcium-rich diet. Find crushed oyster shells, or cuttlebones at your local pet store. Make sure there is always some in the tank for the crabs to eat. Never use calcium sand though, as it can act like cement when wet, and can coat your crabs legs, and make it hard for them to walk. Land hermit crabs need calcium to help their exoskeleton grow. It's also important to help them molt. Add some treats to the crabitat a few times per month. Crabs enjoy natural peanut butter, applesauce, raisins, trail mix, and popcorn without butter or salt. Crabs also enjoy eating grass, oak leaves, and tree bark. Rinse them off with dechlorinated water and let them dry before you give them to the crabs. Be sure to look at the ingredients of what you are feeding them so you can avoid extra sugars and other unwanted items. Things like bread, chips, or chocolate all contain too much sugar, salt, iodine or harmful additives. It's best to stick to raw ingredients for the crabs. Hermit crabs are nocturnal, so it's best to feed them in the evening. Try setting a timer to remind yourself. Make feeding and cleaning part of your daily routine. Feed your hermit crabs at the same time every evening, and then take away any uneaten food the next morning. You can keep dry food in the crabitat for 2 days, but be sure to remove any fresh food daily. Hermit crabs eat very little and in small amounts. To put it in perspective, most hermit crabs take a few hours to eat half a cheerio. So don't think that your hermit crabs are starving, because they aren't! To do this, take a small piece of your crab's favorite food in one hand. Gently pick up the crab by its shell with your other hand and place it on your hand next to the food. Wait patiently until your crab gathers the courage to reach out for it. Your crab may start by doing a "taste test" of the food. It will put an antenna on the food, and then stick the antenna into its mouth. If your crab is interested in eating, it will pinch off small bits of food with its claw and then put it in its mouth. If your crab isn't hungry, it may pinch the food but not eat any of it. In this case, put it down and try again later.

Summary: Feed your crabs commercial crab food daily. Also always add variety to your crabs' diet with fruits, vegetables, grains, and meat. Keep cuttlebone or oyster shells in the tank to provide extra calcium. Give your crab treats occasionally. Avoid sugary, spicy, salty or preservative-packed foods. Feed the crabs at night. Hand-feed your hermit crab to increase your bond.

This is an especially useful method for removing small-to-medium-sized dents, and you may have more of these then you think. Examine your car carefully to find them all. Dents can typically be removed using this method if they are located on the metal panels of the trunk, hood, doors, roof, or fenders, and are not right along the edges on broad flat surfaces. To achieve the best results, use this method on shallow dents that do not contain major creases or paint damage, and that cover a surface area with a diameter of at least 3 inches (7.62 cm). You will need a hair dryer, heavy-duty or thick rubber gloves for safe handling of the dry ice or compressed air in its liquid format, aluminum foil, and either a package of dry ice or a can of compressed air. You will need some of the following: Heavy-duty insulated rubber-coated gloves. A full (or nearly full) can of compressed air. A package of dry ice. A hair dryer with adjustable temperature settings, such as "Low," "Medium," and "High," or "Cool," "Warm," and "Hot." Aluminum foil.

Summary: Find your car's dents. Evaluate the dents. Obtain the materials needed to remove the dent.

Make sure your child isn't just memorizing information. Instead, work with them to make them think deeply about their assignments, as this will allow them to really understand what they're learning. You can ask questions like: "Why do you think your teacher would assign this type of project? What do you think you'll learn from it?" When your child gets a correct answer, ask them to explain how they came up with it. At the beginning of the school year, sit with your child and write down three to five goals related to their schoolwork and study habits. Halfway through and again at the end of the year, look at your list and check your progress. Your child's goals can be related to their study habits, or to doing well on a particular assignment. These goals can be things like: "Learn to take more effective notes," "Improve my grades in Earth Science" or "Read a chapter book on my own." Talk to your child to find out if they have a friend they'd enjoy studying with, or check with your child's teacher or a librarian at the local library to find a study buddy for your child. You and the friend's parents can take turns hosting a weekly study session for your kids. Encourage your child and their friend to help each other out with each of their strongest subjects. One might be "in charge" of math, and the other of reading. Having a study buddy is a great way to get your child in the habit of quizzing themselves or other people to commit information to their memory. Make sure the sessions don't turn into social hours by checking in frequently. You can do so sneakily by bringing over snacks or having the study sessions in a common area of your home. Make sure your child stays positive about their schoolwork. Even if they're struggling with a class, remind them that all they can do is try their best, and that you're here to help. Even if your child is panicking because they've totally forgotten they need to make a volcano display by 6am the next morning, don't add to the crisis by getting angry. You should both take deep breaths and tackle the situation calmly. While you want your child to strive for the best grades they can get, you also don't want to make them anxious or achievement-obsessed. Tell your child that you want them to try their best, and that the grades are secondary. This will help them learn to study for the knowledge rather than the A.
Summary: Help your child ask questions and think critically. Make specific study goals. Set your child up with a study buddy. Avoid letting your child panic over school. Focus on your child's efforts instead of grades.