Help? What is he doing??

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Re: Help? What is he doing??

Post by Brian_T » Sun Nov 27, 2016 11:59 pm

Rawrgeous wrote:He's probably cleaning/ grooming. If you ever look REALLLY carefully when they are grooming sometimes you'll see the tiny pinchers of their 5th appendage for gill cleaning. It's so fascinating to see those, they almost remind me of alien tentacles lol. I was freaked out the first time I saw them though as I had no idea what they were! XD
I just caught onne of my crabs doing this last night. It looks quite bizarre. It almost looked like there was some other creature in its shell.

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Re: Help? What is he doing??

Post by Rawrgeous » Mon Nov 28, 2016 2:45 am

^.^ I agree!

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Re: Help? What is he doing??

Post by Kermie16 » Mon Nov 28, 2016 7:57 am

Just Jay wrote:Awww so handsome!

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Re: Help? What is he doing??

Post by Kermie16 » Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:00 am

Brian_T wrote:
Rawrgeous wrote:He's probably cleaning/ grooming. If you ever look REALLLY carefully when they are grooming sometimes you'll see the tiny pinchers of their 5th appendage for gill cleaning. It's so fascinating to see those, they almost remind me of alien tentacles lol. I was freaked out the first time I saw them though as I had no idea what they were! XD
I just caught onne of my crabs doing this last night. It looks quite bizarre. It almost looked like there was some other creature in its shell.

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Yeah. I really wasn't expecting to see that happening Image It's like, u know they do it, but maybe in the privacy of the dark or in their caves, right? For a brief millisecond when I first saw him but didn't see his face, I'm not gonna lie, he reminded me of the alien from the Alien movie with Sigourney Weaver! Image


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