With quick and easy instructions, Hermit Crab Care will help you set up your hermit crab's terrarium and provide you with all the necessary information you need to know to keep your new pet happy and healthy. Accompanied by quick tip boxes and full-color photos, Hermit Crab Care ensures a great start and a longer, happier life for your new pet. Book jacket.

How-to guidance on raising a happy, healthy hermit crab Among the more unusual pets, hermit crabs are popular and easy to buy. They have distinct personalities, are active and curious, and their unique characteristics and low maintenance requirements make them good pets. This handy guide gives readers reliable advice on choosing a healthy hermit crab, selecting the proper housing, and bringing it home. It provides plenty of tips on feeding and health care, as well as having fun with a hermit crab (such as taking part in hermit crab races!).

Carefully leveled text and fresh, vibrant photos engage young readers in learning about hermit crabs as pets. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions and a photo glossary help build nonfiction learning skills.

A hermit crab who has outgrown his old shell moves into a new one, which he decorates and enhances with the various sea creatures he meets in his travels.

Ten little hermit crabs who go to the beach disappear one by one.

Hermit crabs are easy to care for and make interesting and even decorative additions to your aquarium. Here is information and advice to help you take good care of them.

An introduction for young readers on the basics of how to care for a pet hermit crab. Bright photos and clear, simple text lay the foundation for children to take greater responsibility and a more active role in their pets' lives. Additional features include a table of contents, a glossary of key words and phrases, a fun-facts section, a list of needs and dangers to the pet, and sources for further research.