Hermit crabs were pretty much the rage when I was in grade school and high school. There are actually vendors outside our school who'd sell them depending on the size. Younger kids love them because they were unusual to us in a way, as they are not normally seen away from the beaches and the ocean. When we had the chance to go to the beach, my brothers and I hunted for some along the shore and took them home. We fed them rice but after almost a month, they all died. We never kept some ever again.
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