Ecuadorians, Calico Crabs or Both?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:13 pm

We're using the Latin for the crabs is all.C. compressus are known as Ecuadorians or EsC. variabilis are the Australian Land Hermit Crab, previously known as "crazy crab"C. pseudorugosus is a type of crab from the same area as c. rugosus and is all but indistinguishable from them, to the point where it wouldn't be possible for us to tell which is which.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:24 pm

If it was the diet wouldn't most of the crabs in the tank look like that?? This is the only crab that looks like this. I have not changed the diet, I may at times add apples or fresh bannans to the bowl. And sometimes some bloodworms.but Red is the only one like this. i bought him looking like this and to this day still is. Ive had him about a year now?????

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:24 pm

This is the crab that I have question many times about his color and the way that he looks.He has molted a few times and is still the same way. I'm going to try to get a few new pics and see what everyone else think

NewCrabber · Post by **NewCrabber** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:24 pm

The differences as I understand it and from what I remember is that the small pincher is near as long as the big pincher, that they seem to grow much faster then Es and are in general, bigger. Also that they are copper in color.

kuplakrabs · Post by **kuplakrabs** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:24 pm

Here is a pic of my late Reggae's pinchers I had him for about 9 months and then I lost him to what was most likely a terminal molt.

KittyCaller · Post by **KittyCaller** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:24 pm

I'm not sure what they are, but it look just like two of my guys. They may very well be Es, but I personally think that they're something other than the usual Es. For one thing, on most of my Es, the color is fairly uniform. They're also smaller and usually a darker color. On my guys, they're stripy like that, and larger. (And just filled with personality and tend to be pretty active, but that's not so different from Es. )

Post by **JediMasterThrash** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:24 pm

Minor details like thicker/hairier legs could be minor regional variations, kind of like the dark and light PPs. E's definitely change color as they grow, from blue to green to tan to yellow to orange.They are very large E's with thick legs and deep orange+green color with brown edges (looks like burnt edges on their legs).They are possibly E's that have a diet higher in carotine.They are possibly a variety of E's that comes from a differnet island/beach than normal E's.They are possibly just older E's (since we usually don't see such large E's, and there is precedent that older/jumbo specimins can look very unlike younger specimins of the same species). Though there have been claims of seeing younger "calico E's" which exhibited the same traits in smaller size, which would definitely make them contrastable to regular E's.My vote is some combination of all 3.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:24 pm

No, because color builds up from the last molt and most crabs will be wild-caught and have their wild coloration when fresh bought. Color also has a lot to do with genetics. Not all crabs of the same species will have the same coloration -- look at the range of colors in clypeatus and rugosus.