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Hermit Crab Food

Maybe

An estimated 0.0% of orders come back. But the products selling today already average 4.7★, so Hermit Crab Food is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
58
58 / 100
Top 19% of 3,978 Pet Supplies niches · +7 vs the category median of 51
Market size
$326K/yr228K searches / yr
90-day growth
+34.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
60%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 32 sellers

Flapen Score

Hermit Crab Food against its category

The dotted line is the Pet Supplies average. Past it, Hermit Crab Food is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

58Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hermit Crab Food market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Hermit Crab Food 228K times last year and spent an estimated $326K. The top 5 brands take 81% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul–Aug–Sep. Flapen scores it 58 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 228K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +34.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $326K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
228K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+34.3%
Conversion, latest week
10.6%
Market size, estimated
$326Ka year
Peak month
August2.0× the quietest month
Top search term
hermit crab food210K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $13.49.

Listings sell for $13.49 on average, from $4.09 to $37.40. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $13.49 that is $10K to $13K a year per listing.

Average price
$13.49under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.09–$37.40
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$10K–$13K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

73% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 95% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #175 within Reptiles & Amphibians. It carries 657 reviews at 4.65 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
73%
Prime listings
95%
Out of stock, average day
3.6%
Average rank
#175in Reptiles & Amphibians
Average rating
4.65 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
657per listing
Listings tracked
22

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 56 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
56 months

Products

Top Hermit Crab Food products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 17, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 60% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$16K$33K$49K$65K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

11 falling

Sellers

32

Est. top-5 brand share

81%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

60%

Top 20: 98%

Open market

13%

  • Snout and Shell25%
  • Fluker's23%
  • Gargeer17%
  • Tetra9%
  • AWXZOM7%
  • JADINGSFARM7%
  • Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 13%)

Demand

Hermit Crab Food search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

6K4KPrime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul, Aug, Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Search terms

Top Hermit Crab Food search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • hermit crab food210K/yr
  • crab food8K/yr
  • hermit crab treats6K/yr
  • snout and shell hermit crab food3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hermit Crab Food

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

23%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
26%of negative reviews mention “Contamination”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“Contaminated”
A buyer, on “Contamination”26% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Hermit Crab Food questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data