Blue legged hermit crab

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  1. Scuba Ken

    Scuba Ken Ritteri Anemone

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    I have a blue legged hermit crab that is the size of a cadburys cream egg.

    Anyone got one bigger ?
     
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  3. NanaReefer

    NanaReefer Fu Manchu Lion Fish

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    I agree, regretfully, i want to see this. I had a stray grey and brown hermit get to the size of a larger 'shooter' marble that is my biggest.
     
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    I'd love to see a pic, as well. Not saying you're wrong, but I've never even heard of one that big. I have, however, seen miniature juvenile electric blues misidentified as blue-legs (hard to tell the difference until they start getting larger than normal).
     
  6. Scuba Ken

    Scuba Ken Ritteri Anemone

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    Let me get home tonight, and I will do this, to be honest I thought he was dead when my tank crashed last month, but over the weekend I was investigating why a rock kept "falling" onto my sand when I came upon him, I have no idea where the shell came from, it looks like a decorative shell that my daughter once "popped" into the tank.
     
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    I have one the size of a ping pong ball
     
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    Scuba Ken Ritteri Anemone

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    So he wont let me pick him up, and im not brave enough to make him !

    He is 3 inches long and 1.5 inches across ..........................
     

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    that's cheating, your crab is the Pacific kind
     
  11. Scuba Ken

    Scuba Ken Ritteri Anemone

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    Pacific ? I bought him in Edmonton, with 20 others (that I believe he ate) the current shell he is wearing was a ornament in the tank LoL
     
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    Yours is a Electric blue hermit not a blue Legged hermit. Blue legs are from the Atlantic and are half the size.