To protect their rather soft bodies.
They live in other creatures shells
It depends on the type of hermit crab. Purple Pinchers or Carribean crabs like turbo shells, but I have one in a different kind. Ecuadorians like shells with a more wide or oval shaped opening because their body is wider
In the wild, hermit crabs typically inhabit coastal areas, where they can find a variety of shells to use as their protective homes. They are scavengers, feeding on algae, dead animals, and detritus. Hermit crabs are known for their ability to adapt to different environments by moving into larger shells as they grow, and they are also known to engage in social interactions with other hermit crabs.
scopata animals don't have shells turtles and shellfish do
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.
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.
There are not many hermit crab predators. Their shells protect them. Man is the greatest threat to hermit crabs.
hermit 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.
Hermit crabs and some insects do
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.
sea birds, fish, octopuses, crabs, and other hermit crabs