HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Hello all.

I have a question, if I remember correctly when I got Bonnie in 2015 the store had her and Clyde (Unfortunately he passed in '15) labeled as Ruggies. She for the most part has maintained a very peach/cream color over her last couple of molts and her orangeish antenna stalks. I was hoping someone could confirm if she is indeed a Ruggie or if she is an Ecuadorian.

She's beautiful!
But I wouldn't know what to label her as. I know someone else will know...


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Based on shell selection, this could be a ruggie. However, they are hard to come by in the US. So this could also be an Ecuadorian. Hopefully a more experienced crabber will chime in.

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Can you snag a pic of his big pincher?

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daws409 wrote:Based on shell selection, this could be a ruggie. However, they are hard to come by in the US. So this could also be an Ecuadorian. Hopefully a more experienced crabber will chime in.

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you don't suppose that there could be a small chance of her being a C. Scaevola do you


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I agree~ does look like C. Scaevola! Neither Ruggie or Eccie with the antennae color.


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I just looked up C. Scaevola! I think that's what it is!

Wow! Definitely looks like C. Scaevola. I've never heard of these crabs so I too had to look them up.

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Where are you located??

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I checked it out to, never heard of them before but that looks right!

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I just happened to know a little about them befall she I had one possibly miss sold to me as a cavipe but he sadly died


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I'm located in Ohio. Sadly I have no pictures of Clyde but he looked like a stockier version of Bonnie. I also have a small steel blue/grey colored crab named Casper who has the same orange antenna. Sorry that the images are blurry, my phone camera last year was not that great.

Emmerson wrote:I'm located in Ohio. Sadly I have no pictures of Clyde but he looked like a stockier version of Bonnie. I also have a small steel blue/grey colored crab named Casper who has the same orange antenna. Sorry that the images are blurry, my phone camera last year was not that great.

That grey kind of colouring suggests to me that he is a ruggie however, he could also possibly be a young Japanese blueberry (c.purpureus) because their flesh u ded the Exo is normally a yellow or orange colour


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I just realised all of the typos I made what I meant to say Is that young blueberries flesh is normally yellow-orange


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123AE wrote:I just realised all of the typos I made what I meant to say Is that young blueberries flesh is normally yellow-orange


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No worries


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