It's all great advice!!! And I had a feeling about the shells, plus he'll need some bigger ones to check out. That tiny shell is just decorDragonsFly wrote:Oh--looking at your pics again, I noticed that the two "extra shells" you have in the keeper with the crab are not shells he will be able to use (they probably were sold as "for hermit crabs," and it's POSSIBLE that snail shell could be used in a pinch, but none of ours has ever done so, and the other shell, whatever it is, has an opening that is far too narrow and the wrong shape). Just one more thing sold "for hermit crabs" that is a waste of money.
Take a look at the "Shells" forum here for the kinds of shells that they WILL use. Basically, once ours had access to polished or semi-polished turbo shells, they have never used anything else; turbos seem to have the most preferred opening for PP's, and they like them polished or semi-polished, since it makes the shell a bit lighter.
Welcome to the wonderful world of a million-and-one-things-hermit-crabs-need-that-the-stores-will-neglect-to-tell-you-about! Or tell you wrongly about. . .
it was one I picked up at the beach last year back before I even had my first crabbie. I am learning & soaking up all this new info!! Loving it haha
