Absorbed in his search for food, a shy hermit crab, disguised in a fancy new shell, inadvertently rescues a flounder caught beneath a trap and wins the admiration of the other marine animals.

Hector, a shy hermit crab, is upset when flowers begin growing on his shell, but he finds that they help him make friends.

A hermit crab looking for a new home tries several different shells before finding one that fits just right.

When Neville sees the hermit crabs which he so gently collected being mistreated by the crab man at a Jamaican hotel, he no longer wants to supply them but would thereby forfeit his income.