A few years ago, (OK, probably 6 years), I bought a friends little girl a hermit crab for her birthday.  She had been talking about hermit crabs forever and I thought, hey it's a hermit crab and they are really easy to care for when it comes to the caged animal species.  However, the sad phone call I received 2 weeks later broke my heart.

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What they didn't know is that in order to survive hermit crabs have to be able to move out of their current shells into new ones as they grow.    A simple fact I forgot to pass on when I gave the hermit crab as a gift.  A hermit crab needs a big enough shell to live.

So I learned two interesting lessons.  One: never give a another persons kid a pet no matter how easy it is to take care of and, Two: if you do give a hermit crab as a gift also give a bag of shells in different sizes.

So what made me think of this story?  I found this video today of a hermit crab moving into a shell made entirely of Legos and I thought it would be cool to share.

 

 

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