Hermit crab attacking snail

Vinnyboombatz · May 8, 2014

pagojoe said: ↑

They swap shells a lot. Several times I've found hermits in shells that still housed the live snail, just drawn way back up in the shell. I've also found them in bottle caps, plastic toys, holey rocks, and chunks of wood. I trailed one up once that I thought was going to be a big Terebra shell, leaving a large drag mark behind it for maybe 150 feet. When it found it, it wasn't a Terebra, it was a medium-sized hermit dragging a six foot section of bamboo that it had made its "shell."

Another time, some shell-collector friends had been collecting all day, and after cleaning the shells out, put them outside the bungalow to dry. The next morning, one of the collectors was sure someone was pranking him because all his prized and perfect shells had been replaced with crappy ones with holes in them. He only figured it out when he was leaving later and found one of his good shells in the grass with a new hermit resident. They started looking in the grass and bushes and recovered about half the shells, but essentially every one of them had been taken by hermit crabs overnight, leaving the old shells in their place...
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This happened to me in the Keys.Large empty conch shell in pristine condition turned my back for half hour its walking down the driveway.;D

99tmsmith · May 8, 2014

ok i got some shells for $2 for 2. which i thought was high but the crab has already move into its new house lol

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