New hermit owner, need help with habitat.

[Crabby7Crabber]

I got a second one today, I believe they are both purple pinchers as they have big purple claws, they were both from the same pet store, petsmart, and it was so sad they had like ten to fifteen hermits in the same little aquarium, it wasn’t even a ten gallon it was so small and most of the empty shells they had in it were extremely tiny, any idea where I can get some non extremely expensive shells? I will never buy a painted one, I already knew that was dangerous, PetSmart was selling them and the sales associate tried to sell me one (which were $3 per shell by the way) and the non painted ones were more expensive than that, it was like they’re trying to get you to buy the painted shells and on top of that they kept trying to get me to buy the commercial food, I have some grapes in their aquarium now, How do I know if they’re eating them? Also they seem to be avoiding each other.

Yeah, they're jerks. Like most petstores. When I go there and to any petstore or boardwalk store, I give the employees around me small lectures.

[scuttlecrusty22]

I got a second one today, I believe they are both purple pinchers as they have big purple claws, they were both from the same pet store, petsmart, and it was so sad they had like ten to fifteen hermits in the same little aquarium, it wasn’t even a ten gallon it was so small and most of the empty shells they had in it were extremely tiny, any idea where I can get some non extremely expensive shells? I will never buy a painted one, I already knew that was dangerous, PetSmart was selling them and the sales associate tried to sell me one (which were $3 per shell by the way) and the non painted ones were more expensive than that, it was like they’re trying to get you to buy the painted shells and on top of that they kept trying to get me to buy the commercial food, I have some grapes in their aquarium now, How do I know if they’re eating them? Also they seem to be avoiding each other.

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