HCA: Hermit Crab Association

So I was wanting to find shells in a store and not pay and arm and leg or get any painted. I wanted to see the shell sizes before I bought them cause I know about the size of the hermit crabs I will be getting and I wanted to have shells available for them right away. I came close to buying some turbos online but I was worried about the size. I recently bought come clothes from Bealls and got 5 dollar to spend in their store. I didn't really need anything for myself so I though that they might have shells and went in and looked and I am happy with what I found. each of the jars was 8.99 and I was only going to get one but I could not decide, one jar had more variations of sizes and the other I like the opening on better so I got both. The total was 13 something which is what I was going to pay online without being able to see them. Just thought I would share this. Please note I did not see any shells acceptable for larger crabs most of the shells are for small to medium and some I will just use for decoration.

turtlegirl95 wrote:So I was wanting to find shells in a store and not pay and arm and leg or get any painted. I wanted to see the shell sizes before I bought them cause I know about the size of the hermit crabs I will be getting and I wanted to have shells available for them right away. I came close to buying some turbos online but I was worried about the size. I recently bought come clothes from Bealls and got 5 dollar to spend in their store. I didn't really need anything for myself so I though that they might have shells and went in and looked and I am happy with what I found. each of the jars was 8.99 and I was only going to get one but I could not decide, one jar had more variations of sizes and the other I like the opening on better so I got both. The total was 13 something which is what I was going to pay online without being able to see them. Just thought I would share this. Please note I did not see any shells acceptable for larger crabs most of the shells are for small to medium and some I will just use for decoration.

Wow excellent. I will definitely get those bc I have bought so many "smalls" but they were all actually"medium".

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turtlegirl95 wrote:So I was wanting to find shells in a store and not pay and arm and leg or get any painted. I wanted to see the shell sizes before I bought them cause I know about the size of the hermit crabs I will be getting and I wanted to have shells available for them right away. I came close to buying some turbos online but I was worried about the size. I recently bought come clothes from Bealls and got 5 dollar to spend in their store. I didn't really need anything for myself so I though that they might have shells and went in and looked and I am happy with what I found. each of the jars was 8.99 and I was only going to get one but I could not decide, one jar had more variations of sizes and the other I like the opening on better so I got both. The total was 13 something which is what I was going to pay online without being able to see them. Just thought I would share this. Please note I did not see any shells acceptable for larger crabs most of the shells are for small to medium and some I will just use for decoration.

Wow excellent. I will definitely get those bc I have bought so many "smalls" but they were all actually"medium".

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They were almost all in pretty good condition only a couple with holes.

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oooooOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo nice! Babylons and.... what are the others? Moon snail? I don't recognize them as any turbo I've seen yet but meh, first time for everything I guess.

The others are sharks eye

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Gorgeous shells, and a pretty good price! I will warn, that while crabs will wear those, purple pinchers much prefer shells with round openings like turbos and magpies. E's, however would love those!

Bed Bath & Beyond has Babylonian shells like this also My E's are too big for these shells

Mine PP's switched into the Babylonians pretty quick. I did pick up one turbo as I had one come up from a molt and stay in his shell, I was pretty sure he needed to change and did so as soon as I gave him the turbo. It's so cool that they have preferred shell types.

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