Thank God he changed shells!

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Re: Thank God he changed shells!

Post by charbeenie » Sat Feb 13, 2016 11:27 pm

purpleperson wrote:Ahh okay :) sometimes it is actually quite easy to sex them. Though I've noticed that at sometimes you really can't tell or they seem to "change".

Give me a sec, I'll go find the tutorial for you


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Re: Thank God he changed shells!

Post by purpleperson » Sat Feb 13, 2016 11:28 pm

Here you go :)

Breeding: Determining the Gender of Your Hermit Crab
http://www.hermitcrabassociation.com/ph ... hp?t=92519


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Re: Thank God he changed shells!

Post by charbeenie » Sat Feb 13, 2016 11:38 pm

purpleperson wrote:Here you go :)

Breeding: Determining the Gender of Your Hermit Crab
http://www.hermitcrabassociation.com/ph ... hp?t=92519


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Thank you! I read that amd went and looked. My bigger E is a boy and so is the big pp. My little E was not interested in letting me look lol and my tiny pp is trying dig down so I will ceck that one later. Thank you very much for sending that to me :) now I dont feel bad for giving them boy names lol

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Re: Thank God he changed shells!

Post by purpleperson » Sat Feb 13, 2016 11:39 pm

Yup no prob :) I usually don't worry about it but some people like to know!


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Re: Thank God he changed shells!

Post by charbeenie » Sat Feb 13, 2016 11:49 pm

purpleperson wrote:Yup no prob :) I usually don't worry about it but some people like to know!


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My g/f was making fun of me for naming then and not knowing. I have never looked before. I think my big one is missing the top part of 1 eye. He keeps cleaning it and it has no black dot :(

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Re: Thank God he changed shells!

Post by purpleperson » Sat Feb 13, 2016 11:50 pm

Hopefully it grows back in the next molt :) it shouldn't bother him too much.


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Re: Thank God he changed shells!

Post by charbeenie » Sat Feb 13, 2016 11:51 pm

purpleperson wrote:Hopefully it grows back in the next molt :) it shouldn't bother him too much.


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Oh thank God! I didn't know if it would grow back! You made my night!

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Re: Thank God he changed shells!

Post by purpleperson » Sun Feb 14, 2016 2:27 am

No prob. ;)


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Re: Thank God he changed shells!

Post by charbeenie » Sun Feb 14, 2016 2:44 am

purpleperson wrote:No prob. ;)


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He ended up picking a turbo I had in there :) and after he settled on the turbo by bigger E switched into a new shell lol a smaller turbo that matches the one the pp picked.

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Re: Thank God he changed shells!

Post by landlubber » Sun Feb 14, 2016 3:56 pm

It's real unusual to see crabs in those Tonna shells (sp?). I'm guessing the painted one was some kind of light weight snail shell he got used to. Good looking fellow!
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Re: Thank God he changed shells!

Post by charbeenie » Sun Feb 14, 2016 4:04 pm

landlubber wrote:It's real unusual to see crabs in those Tonna shells (sp?). I'm guessing the painted one was some kind of light weight snail shell he got used to. Good looking fellow!
He changed 5 times and ended up in a different shell lol guess he wanted to try all his options out! I am going to get some different turbo this week and see if they like any of them. Thank you!

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