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Why does hermit crabs live in shells left by other animals?
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To protect their rather soft bodies.
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What are special about hermit crabs?
They live in other creatures shells
How is hermit crab different from usual crab?
Hermit crabs have a soft body that needs to be protected from predators instead of the hard exoskeleton of most crabs. Therefore they use the shells of other animals like snails to protect their soft bodies.
Can you keep hermit crabs with other animals in the same habitat?
Very few. Because hermit crabs need to remain stationary to molt they need to be kept with their own kind to avoid being cannibalized. Some owners do add rollie pollie bugs to their crab tanks as cleaners and that has proven to be quiet successful.
What are hermit crabs prey?
There are not many hermit crab predators. Their shells protect them. Man is the greatest threat to hermit crabs.
What other water animals can live with a crayfish?
hermit crabs?
Why do hermat crabs like to be with other crabs?
Hermit crabs like to be with others, like how other animals like to be. It always nice to have another partner. I had several hermit crabs and they lasted longer than ones with out any other hermit crab.
What is special about the hermit crab?
They live in the abandoned shells of other creatures, and change them as they grow. The asymmetric size of the hermit crabs claws is remarkable.
What other animals has exoskelton on its body?
Hermit crabs and some insects do
What is the closest living relative to a hermit crab?
Truthfully, other than the obvious (crabs and lobsters), they are closely related to the spider.
What are all the animals that live on the beach?
Crabs, birds , turtles , sand fleas , hermit crabs, sand dollars , and a lot of other animals in the sea to ;)
Dose a hermit crab fall completely out of its shell?
Hermit crabs can. It happens when the hermit crab is changing its shell and falls over or when the hermit crab is dead it slides out or falls out of its shell! Sadly they can't always get back in there shells and die.
Should hermit crabs be kept in pairs?
I'm not so sure if they need a companion, but they certainly enjoy company. If you are getting pet hermit crabs it would be advisable to get three or four, and as hermit crabs aren't too expensive, you should think about it.
