Instead of paying about 50 cent each for each shell from the fish store, I decided to follow a suggestion from a forum post that I read on how to get more shells for my hermit crabs. I went to the local hobby lobby and simple bought three bags of shells for a total just under ten dollars. Once I got these shells home I fired up the stove and boiled all the shells to clean them up before I added any to the tank. I ended up with more shells than I could possibly ever use. My two hermit crabs haven’t swapped any shells yet from either the shells from the fish store or from the newly boiled ones but if they use the craft shells I will be sure to drop a note. Below are the pictures after I boiled and somewhat sorted them out on size and shape.
