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johnny888
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 Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:02 pm Post subject: Hermit Crabs |
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Here are some of my Land hermit crabs.
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arthur cooke
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Brilliant, I have two, about 8 years old. I use them as scavengers to clean up bits of food and waste from the other animals. I noticed that you're holding them in your hand, must be quite tame, mine will nip. On one occasion it took 20 minuets to get it off my finger.
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kroakykaren
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Beautiful Johnny, i have a few of these too 
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Salli
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Crustacean.. 
Could you take one out of its shell so we all can see how .... *shivering* ... they are? *grin*
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lol93
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Wow, they're big! They look like good pets!
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johnny888
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| Salli wrote: | Crustacean..
Could you take one out of its shell so we all can see how .... *shivering* ... they are? *grin* |
Hope i can catch one of them molting so i can take a picture. |
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johnny888
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| lol93 wrote: | | Wow, they're big! They look like good pets! |
there are some much bigger than mine but unfortunately I cannot climb the coconut trees where they are resting most of the time. |
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arthur cooke
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The larger they get the more difficult it is to find shells. A problem they have in the wild, because of shell collectors. Sometimes they us tin cans.
I had one fall in the pond and nearly drown, it looked dead to me but I laid it on top of kitchen roll in the viv to see whether it would recover, next day I looked and it had not only gone from the kitchen roll but I couldn't find it in the viv. When I did find it, it had wrapped a leaf around itself instead of a shell. It was very small by the way, garden snail shell size.
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captainmerkin
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| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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I am a big fan of hermit crabs was planning on getting some before..
can't see the picture from work sorry, do you have them in with other animals? |
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GeckoLass
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I have hermit crabs one is a fair size i have lost a few due to the others disturbing the ones in molt 
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