ilikepie777
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hi i just bought 6 red legged hermet crab(dont know official name) and i put them into my 14 gallon biocube, well everything was going fine until in the evening i noticed one of the hermit crabs left their shell, I poked it for a while with a small syringe trying to urge it back into it's shell but it just curled into a ball. So my questions are: is it normal for hermit crabs to come out of their shells? and if so did i kill it by poking it with a syringe while it's body was exposed? im new to keeping marine creatures so these questions might seem stupid but hope someone will reply thx!