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Animal Crossing: New Horizons hermit crab

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Creature Information

Active until 8 AM!

Activity

7 PM – 8 AM
12 AM
12 PM
12 AM
All year
January
December
Animal Crossing bell icon Nook's Price 1,000 Bells
Animal Crossing bell icon Drop Box 800 Bells
Animal Crossing bell icon Flick Price 1,500 Bells
How to Catch Disguised on shoreline
Spawn Rates 25
Unlocked After 0 Catches
Furniture Item for hermit crab

Furniture Details

Happy Home Academy

Category Pet
Base Points 64
Size 1x1

Phrases

Catchphrases

I caught a hermit crab! I think it wanted to be left alone!

Blathers Information

The hermit crab is not an insect... Though it most certainly resembles one. Blech! It looks much like a spider—what with its creepy eyes and crawly legs—but is, in fact, a crustacean. As such, the hermit crab has 10 legs and also wears a shell. But it doesn't grow this shell itself. It slips its soft body into shells left behind by snails, you see, and moves into ever-larger ones as it grows. Talk about a strange way to make a home.