creb crossing

#aka noodle’s personal space is violated yet again

Huge hermit crab I found. Thought I got lucky and found a conch shell. But it had a resident.

They are really strong. I could hardly hang on to it. Pulling my arm into the water with it.

Took this pic before the alligator incident. I don’t think I will be getting this close to water any more. Even if it is salt water here.

seatrench:

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Some crabs are equipped with small paddles on their hindlegs for swimming around in midwater. They generally also have a flat body to make them more hydrodynamic.

This is not one of those crabs.

cool-critters:

Candy crab (Hoplophrys oatesi)

The candy crab is a very colourful crab that grows from 1.5 to 2 cm. It lives on various species of soft coral in the Dendronephthya genus. It camouflages itself by mimicing the colours of the polyps among which it hides. It adds further camouflage by attaching polyps to its carapace. Colours vary depending on the colour of the coral, and may be white, pink, yellow or red. This crab is widespread in the Indo-Pacific and it feeds on plankton. photo credits: digimuse, Brian Maye, divemecressi

inverted-mind-inc-sideblog:

oneiric8:

courtnashe:

timberwolf-manstab:

painted-bees:

Sean and I found a species of decorator crab in Ya Nui’s tidal pools today..!

Somebody enchanted a pile of gravel to become a small spider and then just left it on the beach to fend for itself. Irresponsible.

How dare they, I take the pile of gravel home and love it.

Pet rock

PET ROCK!

frogsuggest:

its-justmaxime:

@frogsuggest what think of hybrid boye?? He do a beckon for bargain!

ALL THE ARMS FOR F I G H T

Source: currentsinbiology

This bewhiskered “Fairy Crab” is the tiniest teddy bear of the ocean

typhlonectes:

Somehow this miniature hairy squat lobster ended up with
a near-florescent pinkish-purple hue, little yellow eyes, and a thick
golden fleece all over. And at just a few millimetres long, it’s as
compact as it is adorable.

Seriously, just stop and consider how small that
actually is – these things are smaller than your fingernail, which
explains where they got their nickname ’fairy crab’ from.

Found off the coast of Western Australia,
Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan, the hairy squat lobster (Lauriea
siagiani) makes its home on giant barrel sponges (Xestospongia
testudinaria), where it sits and catches ocean detritus in its ‘fur’

It then uses its smaller, ’un-hairy’ legs to
collect the particles and eat them. And it looks a whole lot stranger
than it sounds…

del-hell:

Source: toshio

xenoplasm:

psychicmayhem:

sepiachord:

Hermit crab using a discarded doll head for a shell

Most sources suggest this is on an uninhabited Pacific island where ocean currents have been accumulating garbage. Here’s a news story on the subject.

@bogleech

McCrabver.

Source: sepiachord