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Hi, I’m Angela. Most days you’ll find me out in the Keys checking on our wild purple pinchers, with my phone in one hand and a spare shell in the other. I post what I see: molts, scuffles, King Tide mornings, and the plastic caps and pipe fittings hermit crabs are forced to call home when there aren’t enough shells. Come follow along. And if you ever pick up a shell, please leave it for a hermit crab. Leave the Shell, Take the Memory.

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A hermit crab living in a green plastic cap, found in hermit crab habitat in the Florida Keys
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