A Female Komurasaki/Sunset Molted - With Intact Exo

Mokulele_Hawai'i · Post by **Mokulele_Hawai'i** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:14 am

She had previously lost one of her walking legs - and all her leg tips were cut:

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 1:54 am

Thats some hard core pics! Congrats on a good moult!

hermietastic · Post by **hermietastic** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:37 am

Wow! Congrat!

bksbuddha · Post by **bksbuddha** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 6:35 pm

[smilie=cheer.gif] Congrats on the successful molt! That's great & what a gorgeous girl she must be! Would love to see some pics of her when she's ready.

Thanks for the awesome pics of the exo & points of interest.

Mokulele_Hawai'i · Post by **Mokulele_Hawai'i** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:02 pm

September - November are molting seasons for Indonesian land hermit crabs. Yesterday I caught one of my female large indo molted.

Mokulele_Hawai'i · Post by **Mokulele_Hawai'i** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:57 am

VoilÃ ... there she is after back into service.

The orange leg beside the right pincer is a newly grown leg:

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:07 am

What a beautiful girl! Gorgeous!

MudCrabDude · Post by **MudCrabDude** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:04 pm

Mokulele_Hawai'i wrote:September - November are molting seasons for Indonesian land hermit crabs. Yesterday I caught one of my female large indo molted.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/ ... ing0-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/ ... gram_3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/ ... ng0511.jpg

Looks like it shrank...

hermietastic · Post by **hermietastic** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:24 pm

Wow! Your indos are beutiful!

brad873 · Post by **brad873** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:50 pm

hang on, thats a sunset crab. isnt that phsudoruggos. what are they like as pets

Mokulele_Hawai'i · Post by **Mokulele_Hawai'i** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:07 pm

brad873 wrote:hang on, thats a sunset crab. isnt that phsudoruggos. what are they like as pets

Sunset = Komurasaki = Coenobita violascens

Sunrise = light phased Coenobita perlatus ( "C.pseudorugosus" is a misidentification by a Japanese scientist since he had never seen light / candy-striped colored strawberries ).

bksbuddha · Post by **bksbuddha** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:35 pm

So that's what I have to look forward to?????

times 2?!?!

She's gorgeous & thank you so very much for the follow up pics!