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Be patient. Make sure that the temperature and humidity are in the proper range 72-82 and let them take their time. Some crabs are just skittish by nature but even social crabs will not come out unless the conditions are favorable.

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be very gental with it i have a hermit crab that does not like to come out eather try to spray it with some water with a spray bottle DO NOT try to pull the hermit crab out by force the crab would be pulled in half before it would come out of the shell

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