Hermit Crab Care 101
Hermit Crab Care 101 – a guide for properly caring for your pet so that it thrives in captivity.Read More →
Hermit Crab Care 101 – a guide for properly caring for your pet so that it thrives in captivity.Read More →
A hermit crabs shell serves two purposes: first protection of the soft abdomen and second it prevents dessication (drying out). A hermit crab that has left the protection and life-sustaining seashell home is telling you it’s in distress. Physically stressed from poor handling or conditions during capture, transport and/or poor pet store conditions Shell fight-another hermit crab has taken its shell-no suitable shell remains Changing shells and let go of the old one, which was shell-napped by another crab-no suitable shell remains Foreign body/irritant in the shell (sand, pest, fungus NOTE: crabs have been known to hide food in their shell) Temperature is tooRead More →
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