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Post by **wodesorel** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 8:58 pm

These two.

piratetoothgir · Post by **piratetoothgir** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 8:59 pm

wodesorel wrote:These two.

Woah! Those are Caribbean right?

Post by **wodesorel** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:01 pm

And for anyone that missed it, my blue guy from a few weeks ago. He has already started getting greyer.

The white one was a rescue from a few years back. I started going through my archives and pulling good pics and I always thought the color was nuts. It was otherwise fine and was not molting, and returned to a normal shade after its next molt a few months later.

Post by **wodesorel** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:02 pm

Yep, they are all Purple Pinchers!

piratetoothgir · Post by **piratetoothgir** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:04 pm

wodesorel wrote:Yep, they are all Purple Pinchers!

Where have you found such interestingly colored crabs?
How big are they?

Post by **wodesorel** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:06 pm

They just randomly come up that way, and the next molt go back to more normal. I've had everything from smalls to jumbos do it. These guys are all borderline jumbos though.

piratetoothgir · Post by **piratetoothgir** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:08 pm

wodesorel wrote:They just randomly come up that way, and the next molt go back to more normal. I've had everything from smalls to jumbos do it. These guys are all borderline jumbos though.

Cool! I have a guy down for a month now, maybe he’s morphing into a weird color form like that.

I have two crabs that are larges, with my largest being near jumbo.

Angel_crab · Post by **Angel_crab** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:38 pm

Wow love their colouring!

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YouTube · Post by **GotButterflies** » Sat Mar 24, 2018 7:15 am

Beautiful!! Thank you for sharing!

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Giner13 · Post by **Giner13** » Sat Mar 24, 2018 7:15 am

Gorgeous crabs!!!

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Kermie16 · Post by **Kermie16** » Fri Apr 13, 2018 9:19 pm

Oh WOW!!! Beautiful

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mlakers · Post by **mlakers** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 11:35 am

So cool! I love these random things they do. Mysterious little buggers.

Ankutchey · Post by **Ankutchey** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 3:57 pm

wodesorel wrote:They just randomly come up that way, and the next molt go back to more normal. I've had everything from smalls to jumbos do it. These guys are all borderline jumbos though.

Do you think the change could be due to increase in certain foods? Like in humans eating a lot of carrots (like A LOT) can cause a yellow discoloration of the skin?

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LadyJinglyJones · Post by **LadyJinglyJones** » Mon Apr 16, 2018 6:37 pm

S W O O N

Post by **wodesorel** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 2:06 am

Ankutchey wrote:
wodesorel wrote:They just randomly come up that way, and the next molt goes back to more normal. I've had everything from smalls to jumbos do it. These guys are all borderline jumbos though.
Do you think the change could be due to increase in certain foods? Like in humans eating a lot of carrots (like A LOT) can cause a yellow discoloration of the skin?

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I doubt it. Up until a couple of years ago it would have meant starving themselves while waiting for something particular to come around as I was feeding individual food items on random rotation. Now it would be picking through a very varied mix for one or two things. The color itself is just a stronger version of their own regular coloration, like someone had jacked the saturation and brightness up.

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