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10-29-2004, 11:07 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Fairfield, CA,California
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 |  What kind of hermit is this?
Well I traded my nasty starfish for some snails and this mystery hermit crab: 
That pic may not be good enough to ID him; I'll try and get some more pics later perhaps.
The LFS didn't know what kind it was, so I couldn't resist buying it for $4. Any ideas? After doing some googling the best I could come up with is maybe Calcinus tibicen but I'm not really convinced that's it.
On another note, this fella changed shells within 20 minutes of getting in my tank! Funny.
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running:&&5-g KMart special FW with undergravel filter, 1 dalmation molly, 4 gold barb, 1 chinese algae eater&&http://tinypic.com/bvntw&&10-g SW FO with a clarkii clown, some snails and some kind of hermit crab
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10-29-2004, 12:02 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Marina del Rey, California
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| Re: What kind of hermit is this?
The picture in this link looks very much like your hermit. The picture is identified as the same species you noted. Have fun exploring if you don't think it is a match! http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/in...ermitcrabs.htm _________ Just tryin to recreate God's perfection in a glass bowl. 20 Gallon Reef W/Live Rock, mated pair of Maroon Clowns, Softies, 110 watts PC 10,000k lighting, and skimmer.  | |
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10-29-2004, 12:03 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Marina del Rey, California
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| Re: What kind of hermit is this?
Here is the photo:  | |
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10-29-2004, 12:17 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Fairfield, CA,California
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| Re: What kind of hermit is this?
yeah that's the one on the net that i saw that made me suspect that species, lol, cool we found the same photo | |
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10-29-2004, 01:23 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Fairfield, CA,California
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| Re: What kind of hermit is this?
Here's a pic of the crab in its new shell: 
One reason I'm not sure it's a Calcinus tibicen is because multiple sites have described that one as having orange eye stalks, and this guy has white eye stalks. | |
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10-29-2004, 04:37 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Marina del Rey, California
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| Re: What kind of hermit is this?
The eye stalks as well as the coloration sure seam to be very similar, eh? | |
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10-29-2004, 07:16 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Quezon City,
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| Re: What kind of hermit is this?
I have 4 of those hermits. Nice crabs but they sometimes walk over some corals.
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I retired the reef for now. Maybe a nano or a softies tank in the future when I have both time and money. 60 gallon FOWLR in the meantime. My echidna nebulosa are still going strong! | |
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10-30-2004, 06:25 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Fairfield, CA,California
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| Re: What kind of hermit is this?
I had begun thinking it's a blue-legged hermit, and then I found a pic at this link that looks 99% like mine: http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Tan.../reef-blhc.jpg
It looks just like mine, especially the claws, although his legs are a bit bluer than mine. *The owner calls it a blue-leg hermit.
It seems like mine might be Phimochirus operculatus. | |
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10-30-2004, 06:45 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Aug 2004
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| Re: What kind of hermit is this?
I have a bunch of those Blue leg hermits. They are pretty neat looking. I have noticed that of the ones that I have 1 has grown twice as fast as the others. They are of the dwarf type and stay small anyway.
Jay
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60 Gal Acrylic, 30 Gal Acrylic, 55 Gal Glass.
Remora skimmers, 440 Watts VHO URI's. Mag canister for carbon. 90 Pounds liverock, 100 pounds live sand DSB, Flame Angel, Coral Beauty, Clown Percula, Royal Gramma, Domino Damsel. Pulsing Xenia, Devils Hand Leather, Frogspawns, Torches, Hammers, Fox Corals, Gorgonias, Various Zoanuthus, Favietes, Toxic Green Star Polyps. Candy Cane corals, Purple Indica. | |
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10-31-2004, 07:56 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Hong Kong,
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| Re: What kind of hermit is this?
Hi folks - I picked up two hermits last week when we were trying to save some sea creatures from an abandoned drift net in Hong Kong.
I thought these two guys might be helpful to the tank but I've now put them in the "penalty box", separated from the main tank because they started overturning and eating snails, snipping off growth on live rock, and generally causing havoc in the tank.
I've tried to identify them using the above link that Craig supplied ( link)). I think what I have are similar to Dardanus pedunculatus or Dardanus lagopodes. The ones I have are about 1.5 inches big, maybe bigger.
Here's a picture (I'll try to get a better one and post it).
I guess what I should do is return them to the ocean. Am I wrong on the identification? What do you guys think I should do with them?
Thanks.
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Started this tank Nov. 2004: 90 gal w/ overflow box, 2 x 150W 10,000k MH, 2 x 30W Actinics, sump, Tunze skimmer, Teco chiller, Iwaki pump, DIY stockman overflow. 30lbs LR, 30lbs base rock, 30lbs live sand, 3 damsels, rose bubble tip anenome, flowerpot (goniopora), bunch of unidentified shrimp | |
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