Finally, the crab will turn the shell upside down to make sure it can right itself again. While hermit crabs might be popular pets to bring back from the beach, the hermit crab pet business is ...

Mary Akers, 57, is a hermit crab breeder. Her life has revolved around the small crustacean for the past few years. She started Hermit House, ...

Hermit crabs don’t breed well in captivity, and so the numerous land hermit crabs seen in pet stores and tourist shops are taken from the wild, which is considered an unsustainable practice.

Hermit crabs take up very little space, don't chew or scratch furniture, seem to have unique personalities, ... but hermit crabs breed in the ocean, not in captivity.

Pet hermit crabs are wild because it is extremely difficult to breed them in captivity, hermit crab expert Mary Akers said. She successfully bred crabs in captivity but said it took a lot of trial ...

Mating season: The hermit crabs breed in the water, and the female crabs cast their fertilised eggs into the sea before retreating. Incredibly, the entire crab migration takes just one day, ...