if you have a hermit crab then thez are for you

easy exotic pets

there are glow in the dark ones! poor crab, he'd never be able to turn the lights out.

First off hermit crabs are far from being easy pets! The people who recommend them as such really know nothing about them. They are difficult to care for and are all wild caught animals, and they have certain needs that we have to replicate in captivity.

Secondly, painted and decorated hermit crab shells are not safe for the crabs at all. Crabs nibble at and chip their shells to fit them the way they want, and eating paint can easily kill them. Also the decorations can fall off and pose similar hazards.

In studies where hermits have a choice between painted shells and native, natural shells they will always choose the natural shells.

Not to sound harsh, but this is just a subject I feel very strongly about.

haha... those are pretty good..

Indeed, all my crabs came in shells like that and they promptly switched into natural looking ones, boring for you, yes, but better for the crab in the long run!

ha i did not say i would buy them at all in fact i would rather go for a natural shell as i do not like things like this but i just thought the looked nice

I used to have hermies when I was little. I had one when I was 7, and I had him for along time, but then one day he came out of his shell, and then died... maybe outgrew the shell, and didnt have another to go into???

do they die if they dont have a shell like

They most definately die without a shell.That is their only protection.So as the crab grows,it needs numerous shells laying about in different sizes ,so it's able to "test drive" a few to make sure that it finds the right one.

but could you tell me y it dies with out a shell plz

lol at the thought of a crab 'test driving' new shells. They must be really interesting pets, different, cool (I must not decide i want one, i must not decide i want one,......)

yes i no i am thinking of getting one at this moment in time you can get them for trop tanks carnt you

They are pretty cool...I have quite a few of them,but as js said,they're not all that easy of a pet. They need humidty, fresh and Saltwater etc... It's not so much as the Hermit Crab is all that very difficult,it's more that people go into the purchase "uninformed",and don't really know the Requirements to keep them alive.Kids buy them ,take them home,and think now what...because Hermit Crabs may either bury theirself from the stress,or may just sit there and do nothing. If you set them up right,Hermies are really cool.My Crabs are very active.There are a few that stay buried alot during the day,& don't come out until night,but I also have about a half dozen or so that are constantly active. As I said Goldfishman,the shell is their only protection.They come from the wild,on beaches & such where it is open to anyone/thing to hurt it. Samething as a turtle without a shell.It's a place to get some shelter,to "duck" inside" to hide incase some walks up to eat it,or someone flys down to scoop it up for dinner.If it didn't have a shell to call home,it wouldn't last very long.The crab's body is very very soft .Out in the open,it could easily be scratched by a twig or something & become infected,it's twice as easy to eat it,step on it.....etc.

ok thanks a lot devs i dont think i will bother as i have just started a new job as a chef and i do a lot of hours and i could not keep up with doing the humidty and stuff