The next smallest will take that crab’s hand-me-down home, and so on. Hermit crabs vary in their mating habits. The Caribbean hermit crab, for example, lives in wetlands, but when it’s time to ...

While trying to rescue a hermit crab from its plastic home with a natural substitute, she had no clue what was about to ...

It’s a Harmful Industry Sometimes, even if you love hermit crabs and take good care of them, it feels cruel to own one as a pet. These animals don’t breed in captivity, so all are plucked ...

Since hermit crabs don’t breed in captivity, every crab in the pet trade has been taken from the wild. They are then packaged and transported potentially thousands of miles away for resale to live, ...