hermit crab

I'm a big fan of small freshwater crustaceans. I take every opportunity I can to collect little crabs, shrimp, lobsters, etc. However, there's one that's evaded me my whole life: Clibanarius fonticola. The freshwater hermit crab. They are the only fully freshwater, fully aquatic species of...

Check out these cool porcelain crabs that I have caught at the oyster reef in Florida. They aren't crabs at all, but highly evolved squat lobster. Lots of different crustaceans are evolving crab forms recently. Pretty amazing. Cray is the ultimate end point of evolution. Please subsce to my...

As the title suggests, please me ID this Hermit. He doesn't seem to really climb rocks, but spends mostly all his time on the sand bed. Eats all kinds of Algae and sifts through the sand. I have tried to feed shrimp but he isn't interested in this. there is one picture of a star fish too. Don't...

Does anyone else's hermit crab do this? I have 11 in total, but there is only one who likes to find a nice position (full light, in the open) flip over, lay on his back, and just stare at the surface. He can do this for a long time before getting up, grazing a little, and then come back to the...

Thought I would share some pics of my setup. Added the clowns two weeks ago, and the firefish yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_PJWT7dzKI&feature=youtu.be

I took a dive at the Dania Beach Intercoastal. The water was very muddy and it was a little boring. I was about to go home, but than I've notice a huge colony of small hermit crabs. They were everywhere, walking around in their fancy shells))) I've also spotted an evil Stone Crab (Menippe...