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Handle With Care
Like other crabs and shrimp, hermit crabs have five pairs of legs. The first two legs have pincers, which are used for eating and as weapons. Promoters say that if the pets are handled gently, their pincers pose little hazard for people.
“I’ve handled tens of thousands of them and I’ve only been pinched twice,” Lieber of the crab company said.
For a hermit crab, home is where the fit is. Possessing no shell of their own, they spend a good part of their lives “house hunting,” trying out shells that have been cast aside by mollusks, usually snails.
Finding a properly fitting shell can be a matter of life and death. To protect its soft abdomen from exposure to hot dry air, a hermit crab will evict and even kill another crab to get its shell. Other times hermit crabs willingly exchange abodes, and occasionally a large group assembles to swap shells in musical chairs fashion.
Hermit crab salesmen take advantage of the shell game by coaxing crabs into trading the shells they picked up on the beach for more colorful ones.
“You can dress up your crab any way you like,” lieber said.
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