But in the tank with this octopus the museum caretakers placed a live hermit crab, protected as always in a borrowed shell. The shell is still in the tank. The crab is not. Lea Goddard, a museum naturalist and educator, said since no one knows when the eggs were laid, no one knows when they might hatch, if ever. Since the environment in the tank is a far cry from the inky black of the deep ocean, no one knows if the eggs will survive.
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