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Hermit Crab Housing Market (mander.xyz)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 152 points 3 months ago (4 children)

you cannot post this without linking a video

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago

Felt sad for that last crab who ended with a shell worse than the original :(

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow didn't expect them to actually make a queue

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago

They're all trying to move up one shell size, so they position themselves as close to the shell they want as possible. If they weren't in order, the chance they'd end up shell-less increases dramatically

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

There oughta be a law!

Also one can help them in this process:

https://www.hermitcrabanswers.com/finding-shells-for-hermit-crabs/

I saw a post a few weeks back about a guy who found replacement shells for hermit crabs that had adopted bottle caps and other plastic trash. Truly superheroic!

[–] SirCabbage 2 points 3 months ago

This video was amazing- and sad. I love it.