How to: Pick out a healthy hermit crab!

When choosing your new pet hermit crab, you want to be sure it is healthy. Pet stores don't always have the best environment for their crabs, so its best to know the signs of a healthy hermit crabs before you buy one.

1. Make sure your local pet store does not have mites in it's hermit crab tank. If it does, go to a different pet store. (Unless, of course, you are able to/ready to isolate the hermit crab and get rid of he or she's mites).
2. Try to look for an active hermit crab, one that is scurrying around the tank. This almost always indicates that he or she is healthy.
3. When you hold the hermit crab, does he come out? Can you feel movement in his shell? This also indicates he or she is healthy.
4. If the hermit crab smells do not purchase it.

I hope this helps you, when picking out your hermit crab!

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