PIVBY Natural Coconut Reptile Hideouts Lizard Coco Hut Hermit Crab Hut Aquarium Fish Hide Cave Spider Snail Climber Toys (2 Packs)

Great shape, packaging.

Ok looking. Came in stuck together and almost broke them trying to separate.

My crabs enjoy hiding and climbing all over these. Good product.

Great price for them cheaper than the pet stores arrived quick.

I was looking for things to make my hermit crab happier and give him or her a more enrinching environment. Hermit crabs are reportedly happiest with other hermit crabs. But the last time we added hermit crabs, one of them was a jerk. He might have even been a.murderer and potentially.a cannibal. I think that is not unusual for crabs, really. I have never, with all of the hermit crabs my daughter has had over the years, seen anything like it though, as far as the bullying. The crab would chase the other crabs relentlessly! I think he killed one of them and maybe ate part of the body! We saw him with the body. I am not sure if he was eating it or just taking it apart. We separated them as soon as we noticed. He seemed to still know the other crabs were next door and wpuld seem to go stare through the glass at them. He died within a few months and the other crab a month or two after. Leaving us with one. I am terrified that would happen again so I have not brought a new companion home and have worked on other methods of enrichment. There are a lot of things that crabs like that the vacation-town souvenir shops may not tell you about. This is one of of them. As to companions, we may try again soon with more supervision. The coconut hut seemed like a nice, natural looking way to give our crab a place to hide during the day. He comes out and drinks from his sponges and plays with, or eats maybe, his moss-balls at night. He likes to hide during the daylight. As an aside related to the mossballs and the need for enriching environments for hermit crabs, including coconut huts, whatever it is he or she does with those moss balls, they really occupy him or her. Or they did, until we swapped them out with some from the aquarium to let the two he had recuperate. After his or her intense, focused, crabby attentions the moss balls were getting a bit brown and ragged. I didnt want them to die. They are living, growing plants that can live many decades and slowly grow to fairly large sizes. (Beta fish also like them, by the way and you can buy them cheaply on Amazon.) So I felt that I needed to swap them to get the original moss balls healthy and green again, but he or she just KNEW they were not the same. It has been a few weeks and he or she never did take a liking to the new ones. I have to swap them back I think. He seems to know these are not the same moss balls and is not pleased. How would he KNOW that? Seriously. It is like when you get a replacement goldfish for a perceptive child. He knows. They know more than we think, it seems. And that is why things like these coconut huts are so important. I am not just saying this to ramble. They seem to be much more sentient than I used to think. Hermit crabs seem to have preferences not only among different kinds of things, but individual instances of the same things. At least this hermit crab does. If something as cheap as a coconut hut makes them happier it is very worth it. Here they are in captivity, depending on us for their happiness. Anyway. Back to the huts specifically. If we go near his enclosure he freezes up and pretends to be a seashell. I am not surprised, given the trauma he experienced. So it was clear to me that hiding is one of his favorite things to do, next to his moss balls, and I liked the idea of something more natural and that didnt seem like it could possibly harm or distress him in any way. These do the job perfectly. Our crab stays inside his hut all day now. I think it likely greatly reduces his stress. We are still on the first one. It has not gotten funky or damaged in anyway. I have the other one in his or her supply drawer, with extra sand and substrate, and those dry leaves and mineral blocks (there is a special kind of soil you can buy that crabs like better and that helps maintain proper humidity. We use sand and substrate for drainage and variety. We dont use aquarium pebbles.) I may swap it out when I next swap his substrate out, but the hut has been in there for months now and is still like new almost. There is rely nothing not to like about this. It is cheap, natural, excatly as described, and adds to the quality of our crabs life. It is not the most exciting thing I have ever purchased from my perspective, but I imagine that our crab was extremely excited (if they get excited at all, a new house would do it Id think) about getting a nice, cool-looking hiding place so he or she can relax and not worry about how convincingly he is able to impersonate a seashell or whether one of his legs is poking out. He does not have to worry over Oh no! A huge ugly giant! I must hide! I think my leg is sticking out! Should I pull my leg in, or will the movement give me away?! If you think about it, that must be a horrible thing for a crab to experience. Now our crab does not need to go through that nearly as often. 5 stars!

I put one of these in our hermit crab tank and immediately all three hermit crabs went to hide out underneath. They definitely love the shell.

Crabs love them