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Nezzy
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Anyone else have crabs?
#14557620 - 06/03/11 09:08 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Can you spot the Ecuadorian?
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Mad_Larkin

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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Nezzy]
#14557669 - 06/03/11 09:18 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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What the fuck? How do you keep a crab?
Does it live in a tank of seawater?
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14557676 - 06/03/11 09:19 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Mad_Larkin said: What the fuck? How do you keep a crab?
Does it live in a tank of seawater?
I think thats a hermit crab. if so i dont think they need a large body of water.
There is a such thing as land crabs lol.
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Mad_Larkin

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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Dionili]
#14557682 - 06/03/11 09:21 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah it looks like a Hermit crab fo sho.
OP explain more please.
EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian_hermit_crab
Edited by Mad_Larkin (06/03/11 09:22 PM)
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Nezzy]
#14557691 - 06/03/11 09:24 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I got a shiver down my spine when I enlarged that first picture
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14557714 - 06/03/11 09:30 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Mad_Larkin said: What the fuck? How do you keep a crab?
Does it live in a tank of seawater?
You keep them in Crabitat (terrarium with cool shit for them to climb or play with). Here is a good example, not mine but something I am modeling mine after.
Crabitat
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Nezzy]
#14557732 - 06/03/11 09:35 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Crabitat
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14557747 - 06/03/11 09:38 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Mad_Larkin said: Yeah it looks like a Hermit crab fo sho.
OP explain more please.
EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian_hermit_crab

I get them food from the pet store. Usually consists "a blend of premium ingredients like shrimp, fish, cocoanut, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains". I also keep a little pool of sea water and fresh water in the tank.
The crab on the far right is the Ecuadorian. Pincher is not as purple, they are much more active, have stripes on the side of it's face and eyes differ a lil bit from Caribbean's aka Purple Pinchers aka PeePees. The picture doesn't do em justice.
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Nezzy]
#14557774 - 06/03/11 09:44 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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It's fun to watch them pick out a new home. I was thinking about making a tin foil hat shell for the quick sketchy Ecuadorian crab I call "Crazy" 
http://youtu.be/0jZe_VGLRYI
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Edited by Nezzy (06/03/11 09:52 PM)
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Nezzy]
#14557819 - 06/03/11 09:51 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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That's pretty cool. How often do they change shells... and do you give them a choice of different shells?
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Mad_Larkin] 1
#14557863 - 06/03/11 09:58 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Mad_Larkin said: That's pretty cool. How often do they change shells... and do you give them a choice of different shells? 
I've had em for a couple years now..I've seen quite a few shell changes.. And a quite few deaths. Every so often they molt and that can take quite awhile. It's hard to tell if they are molting or dead. Their smell is usually a good indicator.
Soon as they get too big for a shell they pic a new one. I've got a variety in there. Just the other day "Shug" who's on the far left, moved out of his painted shell in which he was probably forced into at the pet store, into the biggest, gnarliest, sea-shell I had in the tank. Then climbed the biggest branch in the terrarium. It was quite inspiring.
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Nezzy]
#14557898 - 06/03/11 10:05 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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i was wondering why those little fuckers were so familliar looking. O-o
in FL they are all over. lol. if i wanted one i could just snag one at the beach,
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#14557910 - 06/03/11 10:07 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Micawber]
#14558002 - 06/03/11 10:28 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Micawber said:

So Badass. Getting one asap.
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Nezzy]
#14558006 - 06/03/11 10:28 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Cozy pictures! Nice crab.
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Micawber]
#14558007 - 06/03/11 10:28 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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had a couple, then forgot about them and they all died.
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Legend]
#14558055 - 06/03/11 10:38 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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legit27 said: had a couple, then forgot about them and they all died.
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14558141 - 06/03/11 10:55 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I shaved my pubes.... but i still can't get those little buggers out!
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Mad_Larkin]
#14558160 - 06/03/11 10:59 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Mad_Larkin said:
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legit27 said: had a couple, then forgot about them and they all died.

on the bright side i saw one the size of my brain on the beach!
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Re: Anyone else have crabs? [Re: Legend]
#14558248 - 06/03/11 11:22 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Only a small one then.
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