Where do hermit crabs get their shells?

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Like I know they move to bigger shells as they grow. But where do these shells originally come from? Who makes them? How?

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They mostly use shells left by dead snails. There is a part of a snail’s body called the “mantle” which secretes substances which harden to form/grow/repair its shell.

Though there are many different species of hermit crabs, and some of them use things other than snail shells.

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