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            There was no sign of the wee occupant at first, but it didn't take long for him to come out to see what the heck was going on as his little home was momentarily moved from the tank.

Hermit crabs usually use the shells of sea snails.  As the hermit crab grows in size, it has to find a larger shell and abandon the previous one. 

HERMIT CRAB ETIQUETTE!
Several hermit crab species use  “vacancy chains”  to find new shells:  When a new, bigger shell becomes available, they all gather around it and form a kind of queue from largest to smallest. When the largest crab moves into the new shell, the second biggest crab moves into the newly vacated shell, thereby making its previous shell available to the third crab, and so on.

Of about five hundred known species, most are aquatic and live in varying depths of saltwater, from shallow reefs and shorelines to deep sea bottoms. 

Best seen on black

Taken in: Canada / British Columbia / Vancouver / Stanley Park (show map)

Taken on: January 25, 2011

Tags:

Hermit Crab

Pagurus longicarpus

Vancouver Aquarium

animal

nature

Vancouver

Pacific Northwest

waters

ocean

sea life

crabs

Sea Snail

shells « less

Sets appears in: • Vancouver Aquarium • Marine Life

Groups appears in: • Marine Life • The Life Aquatic more » • Creatures Of The Sea « less

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