Flukers hermit crab beach sand

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Re: Flukers hermit crab beach sand

Post by isadoraisacat » Sat Oct 01, 2016 9:19 am

LadyJinglyJones wrote:Like soilentgringa, I'm currently looking for a paper where I'm sure I read that she'll quality was a partial factor in inland movement. There are a variety of resources inland, for the crabs, but the gist of it was that high quality shells for storing water were a factor in this phenomenon, and that crabs with worse shells did, in fact remain closer to the beaches.

I am kicking myself for not taking notes. :banghead:

Also, Soilentgringa, if you find the one you're looking for , would you share? :crabblush:
Interesting. Just want to know more do a big majority of crabs actually molt in the sand near the beach is this a thing that even happens ?

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Re: Flukers hermit crab beach sand

Post by LadyJinglyJones » Sat Oct 01, 2016 10:05 am

Molting being a cryptic activity, I haven't turned up a huge number of papers on wild molt.

Most common papers are on shell selection, food selection, conspecific agression, and chemical cues. :dontknow:
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Re: Flukers hermit crab beach sand

Post by isadoraisacat » Sat Oct 01, 2016 11:11 am

LadyJinglyJones wrote:Molting being a cryptic activity, I haven't turned up a huge number of papers on wild molt.

Most common papers are on shell selection, food selection, conspecific agression, and chemical cues. :dontknow:
Gotcha very interested what kind of material purple pinchers mainly molt in. Isn't more sandy with ocean water mixed in? Is it mossy ? Is it soil ? I really would like to find out to farther help me care for them and make their set up as close.to native as possible.

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Re: Flukers hermit crab beach sand

Post by mool » Sat Oct 01, 2016 11:37 am

I would say that the 5 successful molts in the your particular mixture is indicative of the substrate being fine for your bunch. I think the variables are far and many, but the old adage comes to mind, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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Re: Flukers hermit crab beach sand

Post by isadoraisacat » Sat Oct 01, 2016 11:55 am

mool wrote:I would say that the 5 successful molts in the your particular mixture is indicative of the substrate being fine for your bunch. I think the variables are far and many, but the old adage comes to mind, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
That's true just always trying to learn and find ways to improve my set up you can never learn to much

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