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the black husserl posted:those are individually handcrafted porcelain crabs That makes it worse because it means Ai was once again exploiting his art degree grad labor force of interns and hangers-on in a cruel porcelain mill rather than having the guts to kill a thousand crabs himself.
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Yo ho ho Crab Crew! Now that we're done celebrating the genocide of indigenous people, I can start paying more attention to this thread, should there be anyone who's still pro-crab and looking for their pinchy fix!  I managed to upload an older video of Jojo changing shells. What most people don't realize is that land hermit crabs are not easy on the eyes when they aren't in a shell. The shell protects their maggoty looking abdomen which holds most of their vital organs, and fat and nutrient stores. If you notice closely at 0:15, you'll see a grayish, shiny "bubble" on the right side of his abdomen which is his molting sac. The molting sac swells up with water, salt, nutrients, and fat in preparation for an impending molt. You can also tell he's ready to molt by how "chalky" parts of his exoskeleton look. Usually when they're freshly molted, they look ruddier, or a deeper purple than before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGYqPcItV-c He's a bigger boy now, and he's in a much larger shell as you can see in the clip of him eating shrimp. He's kind of a fashion diva, for he is quite finicky about his shells and ends up changing into different ones all the time. I'm actually having a hard time finding the right size for his fat rear end since he eats and eats and then grows. Right now he's digging into some unshelled sunflower seeds and dried cattail leaves I grabbed from a small pond nearby. He makes quick work of seeds with his beefy-rear end claw.
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Nov 25, 2017 10:01
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How do they maintain a grip on the inside of those shells?
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My inlaws purchased hermit crabs for my son back in June and when I found out that those plastic carriers basically doom them to asphyxiation I ordered $200 worth of crab supplies. Got them through at least two molts each but they still died. It's horrible that they have this reputation as "low maintenance" pets. 
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Nov 25, 2017 10:28
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I want to buy a crab made of porcelain but that there is a species called the porcelain crab is making it hard to google.
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Nov 25, 2017 10:30
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Honky Dong Country posted:How do they maintain a grip on the inside of those shells? That's a great question with an even greater answer! ..........Pure..........loving..........MAGIC!!!! Nah, but seriously, I believe it's a combination of their curly abdomen, their 4th and 5th pair of tiny legs that help grip inside the shell, and finally a pair of appendages on the tip of their abdomen called, "Uropods". Here's a basic anatomy overview of just about all hermit crabs, marine or land types. 
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Nov 25, 2017 10:34
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drat that's creepy looking.
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Nov 25, 2017 10:59
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I love eating crabs but I hate those mudcrabs.
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Nov 25, 2017 11:15
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When I was in Martinique a few years ago it was crab season, and one of the little bastards ran out into the road and challenged my car as I was driving, so I made sure to drive around him to show respect for his warrior spirit welp that's my crab story
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SniperWoreConverse posted:nice dude, i'm pretty interested in the ecosystem part. Do you have to clean the crab poo poo at all? Or does the garbage crew truly take care of everything? iirc chias can actually grow into a tree if you let them I used to periodically spot clean the tank, especially after Jojo would leave post-Thanksgiving-sized turds behind, but now at this point with all the tiny critters living in the substrate and under the moss, the poo poo practically disappears on its own after several days. I did throw some chia seeds in one of the houseplant pots and they grew about a foot before flowering. Can’t say I would call them trees, though! 
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Nov 25, 2017 15:49
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNKgh6TfWXo
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I always read the thread title as those "Farmers Only!" commercials. Where the thread is a place for crabs to chat and hookup with eachother but its ok if you aren't a crab and are just into them for your own creepy reasons. Well done.
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Nov 25, 2017 17:14
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Tales of really loving crab people.
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Volcott posted:Tales of really loving crab people. nice man, he really brings the scene together
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Nov 26, 2017 06:54
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All my drat crabs except for Jojo are buried and molting, so I cant get any more neat footage until they emerge or Jojo decapitates another blowfly! Ah well....Here's Jojo getting owned by a doorstop. He loves it when I take him for a "walk" in the room where the crabitat is set up. Inevitably, he just can't seem to get it together whenever he comes across the dreaded doorstop. He won't go around, he won't go over, he feels the only way is UNDER the springy doorstop. Also, if you listen closely enough at the very end, you'll hear some serious purring from my kitty who bonked my phone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEfOb2Gr4wE ALSO....this doesn't qualify as crabby goodness, but someone was interested in the terrarium goings-on. So... I found two separate female field crickets at my work back in October and put them in the crabitat because I knew that they would thrive in there. Sure enough, they did; They ate the same food as the crabs, and since it was the end of their life cycle, that meant the lady crickets had to poop out some eggs, which they did. The crickets died naturally, but now I must have at least 100 baby field crickets running around, hiding in the spare shells and nibbling everything they can. I'm slowly but surely transferring them into my spare setup, and they seem to be adjusting just fine. They even love their little terra-cotta pumpkin house/food dish! Roll that beautiful bug footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZkaqlh0_N4 (Sorry for the terrible camera perspective. I can't take videos to save my life.) ContraBoss fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Nov 26, 2017 |
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Nov 26, 2017 07:05
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I had seafood pho for dinner tonight, but it did not have crab.
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Nov 26, 2017 07:06
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Ok. JoJo vs. doorstop is  But probably not supposed to be
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Spinster posted:Ok. JoJo vs. doorstop is It absolutely is supposed to be. ARE YOU SERIOUSLY WORRIED ABOUT OFFENDING ME OVER LAUGHING AT MY DUMB CRAB THAT WAS BESTED BY AN INANIMATE OBJECT? ContraBoss fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Nov 26, 2017 |
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Nov 26, 2017 07:23
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ContraBoss posted:It absolutely is supposed to be. No. It was that you filmed it at all. 
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Nov 26, 2017 07:40
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Time to get a lizard friend for your cricket buddies
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Nov 26, 2017 07:44
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Lovin the crabs, the baby crickets will eat the hell out of some chunks of potato.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSHvPJD_558
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Nov 26, 2017 09:00
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Maybe Jojo just really likes the doorstop
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Nov 26, 2017 10:33
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ContraBoss posted:That's a great question with an even greater answer! Dang, that's a hell of a derived abdomen
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_mq_63fEdI
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Nov 26, 2017 12:54
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Cutest case of crabs I've ever caught! I found this lil' snipper either in the Caribbean or Western Africa(It was from 2010 I don't remember):
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ContraBoss posted:Cutest case of crabs I've ever caught! I found this lil' snipper either in the Caribbean or Western Africa(It was from 2010 I don't remember): Your childhood was traumatic, i see that there was a giant upheaval, perhaps your parents divorced? Then another life changing event in your 30s. None of this drama involves your love life. You will move or travel often, and live a long time from what I can see.
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Spinster posted:Your childhood was traumatic, i see that there was a giant upheaval, perhaps your parents divorced? Close! I actually have a ton of fond childhood memories, but a poo poo load of insecurities resulting from various real/perceived failures at school/work or embarrassing experiences. My parents did split, but I was 16/17 and it wasn't that traumatic. What does eat me more than I wish is the fact that my family was so much happier in the 90s, and now they're mostly consumed by their own demons, and I feel their pain every day. 
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Fiddler crabs are aces in my book!
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ContraBoss posted:Close! I actually have a ton of fond childhood memories, but a poo poo load of insecurities resulting from various real/perceived failures at school/work or embarrassing experiences. My parents did split, but I was 16/17 and it wasn't that traumatic. What does eat me more than I wish is the fact that my family was so much happier in the 90s, and now they're mostly consumed by their own demons, and I feel their pain every day. Well the image was a little blurry. I don't have any crabs of my own but man are they neat.
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I also like this crab: Seems quite regal. Royalty or nobility perhaps.
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Mo_Steel posted:I also like this crab: Just saw these guys on Imgur 
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ContraBoss posted:Close! I actually have a ton of fond childhood memories, but a poo poo load of insecurities resulting from various real/perceived failures at school/work or embarrassing experiences. My parents did split, but I was 16/17 and it wasn't that traumatic. What does eat me more than I wish is the fact that my family was so much happier in the 90s, and now they're mostly consumed by their own demons, and I feel their pain every day. Was your family crabs in the 90s?
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Lol this owns
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Improbable Lobster posted:Was your family crabs in the 90s?  This really shouldn't make as much sense as it actually does in my mind...
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Mo_Steel posted:I also like this crab: I was just watching that on telly. There are smart crabs and not so smart crabs
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naem posted:Just saw these guys on Imgur Molting looks like a lot of hard work but I bet it feels real satisfying. We lowly vertebrates will never know what it's like.
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