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you don't hold them at all, really, theyre really there to observe and look at. in a single week of observing marine hermits you can experience more than several months with LHC-the MHC are active pretty much all the time and molt right in front of you, with no digging down. the only times i've touched mine is to move one from being stuck between live rock and the wall.gab33 wrote:truthfully as much as i love hermit crabs i would never hold a marine hermit crab. i don't why they just give me the creeps.
There is indeed a reason that their shells seem like ones our land hermits would never in a million years wear. The fact that they live in water means that the water supports the weight of the shell, so they can lug around something much heavier than their own tiny bodies. they also seem to have different shaped abdomens, more narrow to accomadate the types of shells available.Grammarcia wrote:Caroline
Thanks, the pictures were gorgeous or ugly, depending how you feel about MHC, although, personally, I'm more on the side that they are beautiful and so unusual. I do have a question though. It seems like all the crabs are in shells way too big for them. Is there a reason for it?