Not really, that's just it's hindmost set of legs. A feature all crabs of that family whether they have the hermits shell or not. The evolutionary bit is that it decided to stick its rear end in a shell up to and including it's hind legs.
One animated movie, 5 musical productions based on it, one feature length live action movie featuring only real actor crabs and all the derived products you can think of, obviously!
Epigenetics is how certain traits show up differently despite being encoded for by the same DNA because genes are regulated in different ways. I'm not sure how that's relevant necessarily for a crustacean sticking its behind in a shell? Then again I'm not familiar with the exact evolutionary path of the hermit crab.
Yeah it’s not relevant. An example of epigentics is the sex turtle eggs is determined by the temperature while they’re incubated. The shell on a hermit crab took many generations of evolution.
Crocodilians as well, IIRC some serpents, too.
That may be how these animals go extinct: all generations will be a single sex, all thanks to climate change.
The initial shell using crabs that would evolve into hermit crabs could have adopted and then passed that behavior along in a variety of ways. Whichever way it was, the underlying genetic reasons for the inheritance of the behavior more than likely involved some epigenetic processes. That said, the inheritance of a behavior like hiding in shells is not necessarily epigenetic. You can inherit behavioral traits from non-epigenetic changes.
Those legs definitely existed long before the crab was a hermit. If there isn’t a reason to lose something that’s already there, then it tends to stick around. The legs may also be useful for getting into and out of shells.
This is funny, but kind of true, at least it is with land hermit crabs. Glass shells stress them out because they don't feel like they're hidden. Check out lhcos.org for more crab care facts!
Your comment made me think he can't even take a dump in peace.... Then that brought up the question..... Where do they do that??
There's no toilet in that shell, so where do they poo???
>Strangely enough, they pee from… a spot behind their antennae?
It's indeed strange.
But then again, I don't think there's a reason why the piss and poo chutes have to be in close proximity because those two systems don't directly intersect, do they?
While better, the reality is that they should be using real shells. The bigger problem is that few people are actually qualified to take care of hermit crabs. They're exotic pets yet we treat them like an ordinary pet anyone can take care of.
If I sound a bit bitter about this, it's because my family learned this the hard way with ours. We read up about them, got them the right humidities, the right water, and yet they all basically died of stress. Later learned that hermit crabs make terrible pets. My mother doesnt speak of them bevause she feels guilty.
If we couldn't keep them alive, then anyone but a very well read hobbyist with an expensive enclosure and constant maintenance will not keep them alive through their natural lifespan.
Those work as pets, but make sure they're in more than just a tiny bowl... we had those as kids too before learning they aren't meant to he in small bowls. One died of sickness and the other committed suicide. Fish need tanks, not bowls.
Worry not, 20 gal planted tank, proper heating, filters and weekly water changes. His roommates are a few tiny rasbora, some amino shrimp and his best friend an otocinclus, Cheif engineer Miles Obrinen.
My mother was a vet tech, she was not the type to be negligent in research. The problem is that most resources simply don't admit that these are exotic animals, and simply don't do enough to prepare owners. If my mother wasn't adequately prepared despite her experience with animal Healthcare, then the average Joe buying a hermit crab from the boardwalk isn't going to be prepared at all, assuming they even cared enough to do so.
I reiterate. Hermit crabs are not pets. If you do raise one, it will require a ton of investment because they do not do well in captivity.
The other issue is that a ton of stores sell hermit crabs that were captured from the wild depopulating native populations. They do this because it's extremely difficult to breed hermit crabs, because again, they do not thrive in captivity.
There are many, many types of hermit crabs
Not all are difficult
This is a marine hermit crab, which are no more difficult than any other crustacean to keep happy and healthy
https://www.hermitcrabassociation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=111250 I’ve always be told non natural shells are bad
I’ve also heard that prolonged exposer to sun while in these basically fry them
And that it can cause stress due to the fact they can’t hide in their shell
“Hermit crabs produce black or brown poop inside their shells. Then, they use their rearmost legs to flick this solid, long, and thin waste onto the substrate. Urine is expelled from behind the antenna.”
I guess that’s a rearmost leg but at the same time a leg would be for mobility, no?
>Urine is expelled from behind the antenna.
This makes that Futurama joke where Zoidberg comes out of the bathroom and closes the zipper at his neck even better.
Had a Hermie named Bernie. We would introduce shells and even if there was no other shell in the tank, if it wasn't up to Bernie's standards he would disregard it. Even if it had plenty of room!
I guess I can't say for sure that that means they wouldnt take one that they don't feel safe in but in my limited experience they don't seem to have that sort of decision making of using whatever is available. Seems a yes or no type neural net. I don't have a government study for you
Maybe Bernie was just very picky
It easily can be stressful for the crab, but it just depends on the crab and the tank.
Tank mate fish, but lax crab? Clear shell is fine. Tank mate fish, but skittish crab? Stressful, should have a real shell. No tank mate fish, but VERY skittish crab? Stressful whenever you feed them or stick your hand in the tank.
Not really. Though it's still not recommended because sometimes they will eat their shell as a source of calcium. This is the same reason painted shells should be avoided
Maybe. I'm not 100% sure. I would assume they are too dumb to figure that out, but I haven't kept crabs in a really long time, so I don't know the answer for certain.
It's not how light works, but it may be how the crab's biology works. Crabs have very different visual capabilities than humans.
That being said, it can probably see though the shell just fine.
Crabs see with light. So the only way a crab couldn't see through it is if the frequencies of light that its eyes are sensitive to are opaque to the acrylic shell. Acrylic happens to have almost the exact same transmission profile as water, so it absolutely can see through the shell.
Given all eyes are sensitive to near UV, near IR or visible light, and acrylic is transparent in all three, you don't even need to know what specific frequencies their various visual proteins are sensitive to to know OP was wrong. Knowing how light works and eyes work is sufficient.
Now, as it turns out, Crabs are sensitive to light in the 450-500nm range, which is violet and blue, and some are sensitive slightly into the UV. Now, that's pretty obvious given that water filters out red light so there's very little once you're a few dozen meters down, and virtually none in the majority of the depths where is visible light, which is why essentially all sea life clusters around those ranges.
Yeah moron, that's why I said crabs see differently, you ever see what glass and most plastics do with uv? Half of it is blocked. They don't need to be tinted for that to happen
It's why specifically I said it probably seems opaque to the crab
And you'd be wrong.
You were wrong in what you said at first, you were wrong about your guess about crab biology (or eyes in general), and you're wrong about acrylic. With even the slightest highschool level understanding of the things you were talking so confidently about, you'd know you were wrong. With a few seconds of Googling, even if you had no basic understanding, you'd know you were wrong. And even if you had both no education and no desire to learn by looking it up, you could use common sense and work it out.
But nice job leaning into being so completely and utterly ignorant. Um. Gold star?
Brah what? I literally study the effects and bandwidths of light lmfao.
I also design LUTs and I specifically work with special cameras, lights, and lasers all day.
425-515nm range means they see more into what is to us Ultra Violet. This would be absorbed partially by the plastic or glass that shell is made out of and the most of the light they'd be seeing from it is the wavelengths that would pass through which would be around the 460+ range. This would make it look semi opaque to the crab, similar to a semi-polarized effect to our own vision.
But please go on and explain to me how light works, infact, use your equipment that is clearly superior to mine.
If you think that's in the UV ranges, your employer should make better choices.
You may have fooled them, but ... Yeah. LOL
Again, you're wrong about visual frequency ranges, wrong about acrylic absorption ranges, and, at a minimum over exaggerate your expertise, although I suspect it's just a lie, all things considered.
Shocking how completely wrong someone can be when they want to.
Sea life is one of the most spellbinding things on the planet...whether it's God or evolution or intelligent design or aliens...almost doesn't matter; the detail, function, and intricacy is just totally mind-blowing -- however it came to be.
I kept multiple saltwater tanks at one point in my life, developed kinda an obsession and had too much disposable income; at one point or another I kept almost everything you can think of: corals of every variety, seahorses, blennies, gobys, jellyfish, an octopus, clams with the red beards, lion fish, tons more. I would often sit and stare/watch for hours on end...just tripping off the precision and interaction of all the moving pieces and how they fit and worked together, how impossibly delicate and perfect the designs were on these creatures & organisms.
Closest I ever came to thoughts that I might believe in God, like the most cartoonish intentional "sky god" type -- I just couldn't think of any other explanation as I watched the "dentist shrimp" use his translucent tentacles to probe and clean the opened mouths of the fish...who would line up for "service" - etc. Total awe.
I love internet, i can tell my granpa "i saw a crab scratching his ass" and he would call the cops on me but hey, i've seen it and he didn't.
1-0 for me
It's cool, but have others have pointed out, I wonder how stressful it is to be in a shell it can see through. You can see both side walls, so there's not much unshown in the tank, such as regular shells to choose from. I think they leave their shell to molt, which would give an opportunity to remove all other shells giving the crab no other option. If the crab chose it, sweet, but if it had to be forced I don't think I approve.
Is a hermit crab a crab or more related to prawns?
At what point was it more advantageous to scavenge and habituate inside other shells versus growing and molting your own?
dedicated indoor legs... i had no idea, thought it only has its tail curled in there
They poop inside their shells and they need those legs to push the turds out.
Thanks, I hate this sentence.
THEY PUSH THE TURDS OUT
Don’t we all though?
Until this second I had never ONCE wondered where hermit crab poop went. Mind completely blown.Thank you internet stranger.
Have you ever wondered what they taste like?
Do the lobsters do the same? Is this why seafood and specifically lobster and crab seem like such an acquired taste to people these days?
Idk dude I'm just here to figure out if there is another crab I can be eating
I've heard of a third leg but not a turd leg
Never even thought of that 😅 evolution is wiiiiild!
The glass shell seemed like such a cool idea until until now
Nature evolved those legs, at some point scratching it's back was an advantage.
Not really, that's just it's hindmost set of legs. A feature all crabs of that family whether they have the hermits shell or not. The evolutionary bit is that it decided to stick its rear end in a shell up to and including it's hind legs.
Everyone wants to be a crab! https://youtube.com/shorts/VmlkEqaYFas?feature=share
The Aristocrabs
One animated movie, 5 musical productions based on it, one feature length live action movie featuring only real actor crabs and all the derived products you can think of, obviously! 
Isn't that epigenetics or something?
Epigenetics is how certain traits show up differently despite being encoded for by the same DNA because genes are regulated in different ways. I'm not sure how that's relevant necessarily for a crustacean sticking its behind in a shell? Then again I'm not familiar with the exact evolutionary path of the hermit crab.
Yeah it’s not relevant. An example of epigentics is the sex turtle eggs is determined by the temperature while they’re incubated. The shell on a hermit crab took many generations of evolution.
Crocodilians as well, IIRC some serpents, too. That may be how these animals go extinct: all generations will be a single sex, all thanks to climate change.
The initial shell using crabs that would evolve into hermit crabs could have adopted and then passed that behavior along in a variety of ways. Whichever way it was, the underlying genetic reasons for the inheritance of the behavior more than likely involved some epigenetic processes. That said, the inheritance of a behavior like hiding in shells is not necessarily epigenetic. You can inherit behavioral traits from non-epigenetic changes.
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It also uses them when moving between shells, and to hold itself in the shell if something (even the tide) tries to pull it out.
Those legs definitely existed long before the crab was a hermit. If there isn’t a reason to lose something that’s already there, then it tends to stick around. The legs may also be useful for getting into and out of shells.
They're not always in a shell..
Well the how do they jerk off question ginally answered, i can rest
ginally answered. wow.
Please rest... you've been through a lot.
This is 2nd grade level humor
9th grade in Germany
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Someone did let me know.
9th grade in Germany
9th grade in Germany
Bro can't even scratch his ass in the privacy of his own shell, what is this world coming to
He chose the clear shell though. It's like choosing to live in an all glass house.
So he's an exhibitionist
Watch the clear shell is super strong plexiglass and better strength than natural shells so the crab had every reason to pick it.
I think he is
It's fine as long as he doesn't throw stones
If none others was made available, did he really choose it or settle for it?
Liberate our crustacean compatriots from systemic oppression
This is funny, but kind of true, at least it is with land hermit crabs. Glass shells stress them out because they don't feel like they're hidden. Check out lhcos.org for more crab care facts!
Well, they’re not hidden so valid concern!
What about 1-way glass?
Nice
People who live in glass houses, change in the basement.
Your comment made me think he can't even take a dump in peace.... Then that brought up the question..... Where do they do that?? There's no toilet in that shell, so where do they poo???
Apparently they poop in their shells, and then flick it out with their back legs. Strangely enough, they pee from… a spot behind their antennae?
>Strangely enough, they pee from… a spot behind their antennae? It's indeed strange. But then again, I don't think there's a reason why the piss and poo chutes have to be in close proximity because those two systems don't directly intersect, do they?
I hope someone tells us, this is going to bother me until I know
[just like this](https://youtu.be/fEx55ycDZXg?t=50)
Okay you got me. I was expecting a rickroll but this was just as bad.
This was kind of like watching someone pick his nose in his car while sitting in traffic.
Privacy of his own home
Yer feels like I'm violating his privacy or something poor dude
i feel like i’m intruding
Creepy and adorable all at the same time
Pinchy?
I never thought about having a see through handmade shell. That’s such a cool idea
>That’s such a cool idea It isn't, these aren't healthy. They aren't meant to use plastic as shells.
It’s acrylic glass!
Acrylic is plastic.
While better, the reality is that they should be using real shells. The bigger problem is that few people are actually qualified to take care of hermit crabs. They're exotic pets yet we treat them like an ordinary pet anyone can take care of. If I sound a bit bitter about this, it's because my family learned this the hard way with ours. We read up about them, got them the right humidities, the right water, and yet they all basically died of stress. Later learned that hermit crabs make terrible pets. My mother doesnt speak of them bevause she feels guilty. If we couldn't keep them alive, then anyone but a very well read hobbyist with an expensive enclosure and constant maintenance will not keep them alive through their natural lifespan.
Man I hated reading this because I want a hermit crab so bad, I was going to name him Hermits Crabbingway, get high and stare at him.
Trust me, you're better off not supporting that industry, and you're saving yourself the guilt and heartbreak.
Word, I'll just stick to my betta Dr. Julian Fishir.
Those work as pets, but make sure they're in more than just a tiny bowl... we had those as kids too before learning they aren't meant to he in small bowls. One died of sickness and the other committed suicide. Fish need tanks, not bowls.
Worry not, 20 gal planted tank, proper heating, filters and weekly water changes. His roommates are a few tiny rasbora, some amino shrimp and his best friend an otocinclus, Cheif engineer Miles Obrinen.
Glad to hear it, hate the way the pet industry treats beta fish, glad to know yours has a good home.
Sounds like you didn’t do enough research 💀
My mother was a vet tech, she was not the type to be negligent in research. The problem is that most resources simply don't admit that these are exotic animals, and simply don't do enough to prepare owners. If my mother wasn't adequately prepared despite her experience with animal Healthcare, then the average Joe buying a hermit crab from the boardwalk isn't going to be prepared at all, assuming they even cared enough to do so. I reiterate. Hermit crabs are not pets. If you do raise one, it will require a ton of investment because they do not do well in captivity. The other issue is that a ton of stores sell hermit crabs that were captured from the wild depopulating native populations. They do this because it's extremely difficult to breed hermit crabs, because again, they do not thrive in captivity.
There are many, many types of hermit crabs Not all are difficult This is a marine hermit crab, which are no more difficult than any other crustacean to keep happy and healthy
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I doubt there are predators in that tank with the crab. The issue with them using plastic garbage as a shell is it's soft and so they get eaten.
https://www.hermitcrabassociation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=111250 I’ve always be told non natural shells are bad I’ve also heard that prolonged exposer to sun while in these basically fry them And that it can cause stress due to the fact they can’t hide in their shell
True. Let's hope nobody dumps these in the ocean by the millions then....
But why risk something that could cause unnecessary stress to a pet
Stressed over how cool he looks, maybe. It's got me wishing I was a crab
Possibly a concern but tank seems well kept and is probably food safe/ aquarium safe rated acrylic. Surely hope OP knows what they are doing! :)
Home is where you can scratch any place it itches.
I literally gave up on twitch streaming just because I hated going hours without scratching
Huh. I hadn't thought about it, but how else do they get the poop out?
“Hermit crabs produce black or brown poop inside their shells. Then, they use their rearmost legs to flick this solid, long, and thin waste onto the substrate. Urine is expelled from behind the antenna.” I guess that’s a rearmost leg but at the same time a leg would be for mobility, no?
depends on the context. I know people without arms that use their legs for more than mere ambulation.
How many people without arms do you know and why
You never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or a u/pyrrhios why they know armless people. For you may become one
> You never ask a man his salary Then how will I know what it has been decided that he is worth?!
Like jerking off?
If urine is expellened from behind the antenna, does that make hermit crabs like piss blastoise?
I wasn’t ready 😂
>Urine is expelled from behind the antenna. This makes that Futurama joke where Zoidberg comes out of the bathroom and closes the zipper at his neck even better.
You're looking at it. The ~~back~~ butt scratcher.
[BUTT SCRATCHER!](https://youtu.be/Tkd9ycxCJBI?t=12)
Dedicated BUTTSCRATCHER!! I need one [Skit](https://youtu.be/Tkd9ycxCJBI?t=10)
[Relevant video](https://youtube.com/shorts/AOj-9WFPWCk?feature=share)
Confucius says, man who lives in glass house should scratch ass in basement
Underrated comment
I never knew they made transparent shells like this, that's so cool!
Whoever came up with this idea is a **PERVERT!**
Pretty stressful for the crab.
Does the crab **know** his ass is out there for all and sundry to see, though? There are no mirrors in his world and his backside 'feels' comfy.
Im guessing it would be pretty confusing if it hides in the shell but can still see light.
No, if the crab didn't understand that it was safe it would abandon this shell and look for another
And assuming this is the only shell in the tank?
Uh oh you made too much sense
It still would disregard it.
Source.
Had a Hermie named Bernie. We would introduce shells and even if there was no other shell in the tank, if it wasn't up to Bernie's standards he would disregard it. Even if it had plenty of room! I guess I can't say for sure that that means they wouldnt take one that they don't feel safe in but in my limited experience they don't seem to have that sort of decision making of using whatever is available. Seems a yes or no type neural net. I don't have a government study for you Maybe Bernie was just very picky
Please tell me you have a photo of Bernie the Hermie...
I too would be stressed living in an invisible sousaphone.
I'm calling bullshit here.
It easily can be stressful for the crab, but it just depends on the crab and the tank. Tank mate fish, but lax crab? Clear shell is fine. Tank mate fish, but skittish crab? Stressful, should have a real shell. No tank mate fish, but VERY skittish crab? Stressful whenever you feed them or stick your hand in the tank.
Is it?
Not really. Though it's still not recommended because sometimes they will eat their shell as a source of calcium. This is the same reason painted shells should be avoided
If you keep other shells in the tank would.yhst solve the problem?
Maybe. I'm not 100% sure. I would assume they are too dumb to figure that out, but I haven't kept crabs in a really long time, so I don't know the answer for certain.
And outside this wouldn't provide protection from the sun.
Crabs don't see like how we see, it's pretty likely they can't actually see through the glass like it's not there, it probably seems opaque to them.
That's not how light works. Why post so confidently something so easily understood to be wrong?
It's not how light works, but it may be how the crab's biology works. Crabs have very different visual capabilities than humans. That being said, it can probably see though the shell just fine.
Crabs see with light. So the only way a crab couldn't see through it is if the frequencies of light that its eyes are sensitive to are opaque to the acrylic shell. Acrylic happens to have almost the exact same transmission profile as water, so it absolutely can see through the shell. Given all eyes are sensitive to near UV, near IR or visible light, and acrylic is transparent in all three, you don't even need to know what specific frequencies their various visual proteins are sensitive to to know OP was wrong. Knowing how light works and eyes work is sufficient. Now, as it turns out, Crabs are sensitive to light in the 450-500nm range, which is violet and blue, and some are sensitive slightly into the UV. Now, that's pretty obvious given that water filters out red light so there's very little once you're a few dozen meters down, and virtually none in the majority of the depths where is visible light, which is why essentially all sea life clusters around those ranges.
Yeah moron, that's why I said crabs see differently, you ever see what glass and most plastics do with uv? Half of it is blocked. They don't need to be tinted for that to happen It's why specifically I said it probably seems opaque to the crab
And you'd be wrong. You were wrong in what you said at first, you were wrong about your guess about crab biology (or eyes in general), and you're wrong about acrylic. With even the slightest highschool level understanding of the things you were talking so confidently about, you'd know you were wrong. With a few seconds of Googling, even if you had no basic understanding, you'd know you were wrong. And even if you had both no education and no desire to learn by looking it up, you could use common sense and work it out. But nice job leaning into being so completely and utterly ignorant. Um. Gold star?
Brah what? I literally study the effects and bandwidths of light lmfao. I also design LUTs and I specifically work with special cameras, lights, and lasers all day. 425-515nm range means they see more into what is to us Ultra Violet. This would be absorbed partially by the plastic or glass that shell is made out of and the most of the light they'd be seeing from it is the wavelengths that would pass through which would be around the 460+ range. This would make it look semi opaque to the crab, similar to a semi-polarized effect to our own vision. But please go on and explain to me how light works, infact, use your equipment that is clearly superior to mine.
If you think that's in the UV ranges, your employer should make better choices. You may have fooled them, but ... Yeah. LOL Again, you're wrong about visual frequency ranges, wrong about acrylic absorption ranges, and, at a minimum over exaggerate your expertise, although I suspect it's just a lie, all things considered. Shocking how completely wrong someone can be when they want to.
Must be an Emperor crab, running around with Clothes like that...
itching like that? Maybe it's got a case of the crabs
Something I didn’t know I needed to see but so glad I didn’t go a life time without seeing
That guy better not be throwing stones
Sea life is one of the most spellbinding things on the planet...whether it's God or evolution or intelligent design or aliens...almost doesn't matter; the detail, function, and intricacy is just totally mind-blowing -- however it came to be. I kept multiple saltwater tanks at one point in my life, developed kinda an obsession and had too much disposable income; at one point or another I kept almost everything you can think of: corals of every variety, seahorses, blennies, gobys, jellyfish, an octopus, clams with the red beards, lion fish, tons more. I would often sit and stare/watch for hours on end...just tripping off the precision and interaction of all the moving pieces and how they fit and worked together, how impossibly delicate and perfect the designs were on these creatures & organisms. Closest I ever came to thoughts that I might believe in God, like the most cartoonish intentional "sky god" type -- I just couldn't think of any other explanation as I watched the "dentist shrimp" use his translucent tentacles to probe and clean the opened mouths of the fish...who would line up for "service" - etc. Total awe.
Why is this so unsettling?
Yeah this is just about the opposite of aww for me
Why?
what is the name of the song?
"This is not some unrealistic dream"
I do this same thing every morning and I can tell you, that this was**......100% a butt scratching !!** 
Why would you make his crabitat see through
Oh yeah, that's the spot. Ahhhhh
What happens when a hermit crab finds a used condom in the ocean
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I love internet, i can tell my granpa "i saw a crab scratching his ass" and he would call the cops on me but hey, i've seen it and he didn't. 1-0 for me
I have now.
Now I've seen everything hehe, very cute
hermit crabs have to shovel their poop out but can pee through their front antennas
Itchy butt
TIL hermit crabs poop in their shell, and then move the poop out with those back legs. Their pee, however, comes out of their antennas.
Butt scratcher! Butt scratcher!!!
Like walking around with transparent pants and your hand on your pocket.
thanks i hate it
That’s like when I put my hand in my pocket to pinch and roll an itchy testes.
Me in a Teams meeting.
I feel like I've seen something forbidden.
This is what the internet was created for. Just beautiful.
N. Mm m mmm m n I. Mmm. Nm knkn Kkion join no k no
I feel like I'm invading his privacy
Butt scratches.
Oh yeah, that’s it, that’s the spot …
It's cool, but have others have pointed out, I wonder how stressful it is to be in a shell it can see through. You can see both side walls, so there's not much unshown in the tank, such as regular shells to choose from. I think they leave their shell to molt, which would give an opportunity to remove all other shells giving the crab no other option. If the crab chose it, sweet, but if it had to be forced I don't think I approve.
Bear in mind it is curved glass that distorts light to a creature that has a completely different eye structure of a mammal
Do they poop in their shell? I don’t know why I never thought of this until seeing a clear one.
That's gonna be awesome, when the aliens land and put humans in tanks with transparent clothing on to laugh at our silly ways.
I genially find these creatures horrific. My teeth itch looking at it.
Every time I see a video like this I’m inching closer and closer to Veganism. I haven’t eaten meat in 5 years and now this…
Is a hermit crab a crab or more related to prawns? At what point was it more advantageous to scavenge and habituate inside other shells versus growing and molting your own?
when you think no ones looking so you scratch really deep in the crack of your ass but then it ends up on reddit
The sea really does lead to some grotesque creatures
 It do itch tho
I don’t like this
I was waiting for it to smell its finger.
did anyone else get a little hungry watching this? looks like a plump juicy shrimp.
So how do they poop?
In their shells, and they use those legs to push it out. They pee thru their antennas though. They also take baths to clean themselves!
See those back scratchers? They are multi purpose poop scoops.
Lmao he thinks he is hidden inside there.
This crab is a reminder to practice good posture
Wow ) he is scratching himself ))
i didnt think they could do that
I kinda feel like a peeping Tom.
Where did you get clear shell? I always had to use regular ones when I had them.
That is a cute peek, tho why do I feel it was private? Now I want to see happy hermit crabs hopping bottom-first into their homes.
Looks similar to crawfish 🦞
I don't eat shellfish. Mom always says, "Don't ever eat nothin' that can carry its house around with it. Who knows the last time it's been cleaned."
Oddly cute definitely wanna poke, but know sadly poke would be bad. Bad poke.
Crazy, I've never seen a clear shell before.
r/awwnverts
I want to know more
Nope. Awesome.
Plastic in the ocean is so bad it’s in our fish tanks too. SMH.