Hermit crabs are not of the snail species

curiesea (68)in #science • 6 years ago (edited)

It turns out that animals often called hermit crabs often mistakenly there are people who think he is sea conch, interesting also for the study.
I remember when I was crazy about looking for this one animal. in addition to cute and funny animal is also easy to get our fishing with coconut dregs at night after this animal must gather hose a few hours later. In Aceh language hermit Crabs of this type have a special name that is Umeu (aceh language)

Hermit crabs are not of the snail species

actually can not live when submerged in sea water. Umeu or Hermit Crabs will die out of breath if submerged in a long time. the funny hermit crabs are often referred to as sea snails or sea hermit crabs, when in fact there are also sea hermes that actually live in the sea.
Hermit Crabs is not a snail or crab. It is closer to lobster species than to crabs. Want simple evidence? just see how to walk. the nation of crabs is sloping while the hermit crabs, like lobsters, move forward. many people think, hermit crabs make their own shells, and the shell continues to grow along with the development of his body like a snail. Unfortunately no.
Hermit crabs always use loan clothes since childhood. Beginning was born, he shaped larvae that was in the sea to the sea by his mother.
Since crawling, he searched for and used a loan shell from a sea slug. each shell begins narrow or uncomfortable, it will look for a new shell that is more suitable size.
so do not be surprised if she can wear snail, or even other objects such as bottle balm, milk or other cans. Anyway fit home and comfortable to wear, directly used.
in Aceh is actually a very diverse breed of crabs: Coenobita brevimanus. Umeu typical of Aceh. Beken as Indos or Indonesians. Generally purple. There are also lilac, pink, lilac and brown colors. Bodinya can be bigger other types. Its big cubes and round eyes and cylinders, Coenobita perlatus. Red colored with ornate white spots. Known as strawberry hermit crab. Considered the most beautiful and much preferred.
Color is diverse, brown, gray and black, white, beige, pink, light orange, light blue, purple, red. Have a texture of lines on the front of the big left claw. Coenobita cavipes. Color combinations are black-blue and black-gray. There is also a red one. The shape of the claws is slender elongated. The anntenule is bright red. The amount is not as much as rugosus and brevimanus Coenobita violascens. Once considered only in Japan. But violascens are also found in Aceh.

until now hermit crabs can not be cultivated outside their natural habitat. Although there are some people who claim to be able to cultivate my hermit crab personality is not sure that it. actually their actions are nothing more than harvesting hermit crabs from their natural habitat.
More precisely they are only raising hermit crabs. It has never been recorded that hermit crabs lay eggs in artificial ecosystems.
Because of the difficulty of breeding hermit crabs, so it is not advisable to take hermit crabs that are too small or even female hermit crabs are ready to spawn from the original habitat as good as any hermit crab.
sustainability remains number one, Actually we can keep hermit crabs.
Because of the difficulty of breeding hermit crabs, so it is not advisable to take hermit crabs that are too small or even female hermit crabs are ready to spawn from the original habitat as good as any hermit crab.
sustainability remains number one, Actually we can keep hermit crabs.
Usually the reared ones are the hermit crabs of the Coenobitidae family. There are not many species, only eight new species are found to date. Many species are hermit crabs or sea hermit crabs.
It is estimated that there are about 600 species with distinctive features and newly discovered numbers continue to grow. Unfortunately, despite its exotic appearance, maintenance of sea grass is much more difficult because it takes aquariums of sea water.
The hermit crab is not a fussy pet. the demands of simple hermit living. comfortable and clean place. usually means having a base of dry, soft sand, and having sufficient hiding places. water to drink. usually quite fresh water. water for bathing, also do not need to deep, because if they drown might even over game.
Understand they are a land hermit crab; which means land hermit crab. some ready-made shells, make up their clothes when it's cramped, and of course the food.
To eat is also not bother. In the wild, they belong to omnivorous animals who want to eat everything that can be devoured, ranging from foliage, fruits, to carrion or animal feces.
maintaining hermit crabs ... shell needs of various sizes and shapes should also be provided. if it is properly maintained, the hermit crab aka hermit crabs can be up to 10 years old, maybe even more. as a countryman of lobsters, of course he also has a remarkable regeneration process. The hermit crabs can even regrow the broken legs ... body size depends only on the availability of food and environmental conditions ... including whether or not the size of the shell can accommodate its body. so it is not impossible even he can live longer than us. who knows?