Adventures in Hermit Crabs

So we have hermit crabs for pets. Caleb got 2 of them last fall. One of those died like 2months later. We got another one to replace the one that died. Well, they are really easy pets for the most part. You have to keep them warm and give them water and food. They eat very little. And will eat most anything. Well, this summer we went to Cape Cod on vacation and at a Flea market we saw Hermit crabs. Zach decided he really would like to pick one out and bring it home. He picked out the one he wanted (it had a painted shell with a butterfly on it) and it came home from vacation with us. The other day I was going to give the crabs a bath and i picked up Hermit ( that is what Zach named him) pretty much just fell out of his shell. Yuck! He was dead. We have had him just 3 weeks or so. Zach was at school when I discovered the death. When we got home I told what had happened. At first he said "that is ok I can get another" then he started crying. Poor Zach! So I told him we could get another one today. We headed to the petstore............only Huge ones.....then another store ....huge ones that were not moving. OH well I guess we will have to go the the Fox run Mall, they usually have them there.