Shells and no paint!!!!!

Your crabs need to do something called molting.Molting occurs once a year and helps the crab shed their skin.When the crab sheds or molts the burry underground and lose their shell~it looked CREEPY!!Usually the crab molts underground but once in a blue moon they molt above ground BUT......how do you tell if its not dead? Well this is kind of hard to tell but a good rule of thumb is if it stinks its dead. Anyway when your crab is done with molting, then he will want to move into a clean new shell.Now you can buy shells at your local petstores but you can shy away from painted shells.Painted shells contain toxins that can posion your crab even if it is “crab safe”.So stick with shells that dont hyave any chemicals.Since Hermit Crabs are scavengers they can also live in other things but its best to stick with the classic crab shells..