This hermit crab web site will provide for what you need and what you should do to have a hermit crab.

These are my original hermit crabs, and now I have twenty.

All hermit crabs need exercise.

How I decide to give them exercise instead of just leaving them in their tank, I take them out and put them on my bean bag and let them crawl around, I pick them up and play with them. I do that every few days.

But if you have hermit crabs you don't have to take them and put them on a bean bag. You can exercise them in other ways. You can put them in a bowl, let them crawl around, put them in their carry case. There are even more ways then that. You can do it a lot of different ways.

One other way to exercise hermit crabs is to put them in your hand and let them crawl on you. But watch out for their pincers. They can pinch you and it can hurt. Trust me it can hurt a lot!

Hermit crabs need a lot more than just exercise. They need a bath! Hermit crabs need at least one bath every week. for at least two reasons, even though there is a lot more. The two reasons are so that they don't get dirty and grow mold, and because there are fruit flies that want to eat them.

But the hardest part about giving them a bath is don't give them a bath with water from the faucet. Because theire allergic to our water. So you have to add AquaSafe to the water. the company that make s it is Tetra Aqua. And you can just put them in the water. If you hold them in the water upside down they may come out of their shells. But mine never did.

But what you do is you leave them in the water for one minute, then take them up for a breath of air. And then put them back and swish them around a little bit. But when you put them back and leave them bubbles will start to come out. That means their living and their shells are getting cleaned out by the water.

At the beach you may see hermit crabs by the water. If you kept one of those you don't need to give them a bath because that kind lives in the water. That kind does not breath air. That kind is a salt water hermit crab.

A hermit crab's environment has to be very secure and safe or they will die. The two most important things is that you have extra shells that is bigger then their shells. Also they should not get too hot or too cold. For example if the tempertaure is 80 and you change it at least 5 degrees higher or lower they could possibly get sick or die. You can see in this picture that I have sticks for my hermit crabs. But if you're going to buy hermit crabs or you have hermit crabs do not get sticks from the wild. Go to the pet store and buy these kind of sticks so the hermit crabs can sitck their legs in and climb up. I also have coconut shells cracked in half. You might wonder why there are coconut shells in a hermit crab environment. You don't need to put in a coconut but you can see that my two hermit crabs like having a cocnut. Even though that shell is lot bigger than them it is still a lot of fun to climb on top and hide inside. But don't put in too big a shell because the blue hermit crab in this picture got stuck and almost didn't get out. We had to use oil. That was 5 weeks ago.

They also need a 10 gallon tank or more.Their environment has to be moist. You can feed them any vegetable or fruit or hermit crab food. They also need water in their tank. You also have to clean their tank once a month or more.