My hermit crab is naked!!!

LiquidSound

Since he's dropped the shell...he certainly seems more liberated. heh.
Well, the petstore tells me that they die when they leave their shell and don't go to another one. Mine has been running around stark naked for the past three hours! I'm trying a couple of different shells..hoping that he'll find one suitable.
I gotta tell ya, they're weird looking critters once they're out of their shells. *even worse than before*

I'll be sure and keep you posted....cause I know you will all be hanging by a thread because of this err...thread.:rolleyes:

lax01

You must be really, really bored.

OrangeToupee

Take photographs and sell them on the Internet, some dudes are really into that kind of thing.

LiquidSound

Unfortunately, he only lasted about 18 hours whilst naked. Enough for me to get in about six good photo shoots. http://barely-legal-hermit-crab.com will be coming to an aquarium near you!

madmax

I couldn't get the link to work. Sorry about your hermit crab.
madmax

OrangeToupee

Has the crab made it to another shell?

LiquidSound

No, he didn't make it. He's on that big beach in the sky.

Max, you actually clicked the link? Tell me this, would you join if it were a pay site?
Mail me fifty bucks and I'll make you my first VIP member.

rskarvan

I am so sorry for the loss of your very cool pet.
Don't worry, in time, it will be better.
Before you know it, you'll even regain your taste for shell-fish.

Anyway, I would love to see some nakey jpg's of your hermit crap <everyone has their kink>. Can you attach a jpg (shell-less) to the polk forum so that we can all remember the shy little guy fondly. I would understand if you would want to respect the little guys wishes for privacy.

Don't worry too much though, there are many other fish (shell-fish) in the sea. Hermit crabs (like women) are kinda like busses, you lose one and before you know it, another one comes to pick you up. But, my guess, is that nakey hermit crab was your first and that one will always be special.

Whatever you do, you must move on. Bury the crab along with his favorite shell... don't hang onto the old memorys. After such an emotional loss, its probably better to move on and discard the old house (uhm... I mean shell). Maybe you can post the shell in the Polk flea market. Of course, to you, it is priceless.

TroyD

Crabs for pets?

****, boil the sumbitches with a good amount Old Bay, some friends and a good amount of beer....

That's how I like to remember crabs.

BDT

RuSsMaN

In my youth, I had to take care of a friends hermit crabs while his family was on vacation, he had 3 or 4 of em. I don't remember actually having to do much to them, but one did die.

I grabbed that effer by one of his legs, opened the front door, and punted him like a football into the street.

Cheers,
Russ

Ron-P

Thank God I've never had crabs.


Peace Out~:D

TroyD

Anyway, I would love to see some nakey jpg's of your hermit crap <everyone has their kink>. Can you attach a jpg (shell-less) to the polk forum so that we can all remember the shy little guy fondly

rskaravan,

Dude, that's some stuff that you should feel entirely free to keep to yourself.

UUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG //full body shiver//

I can just picture a dude all hunkered in front of his monitor with some crab pics, getting his whack on.....like a caveman trying to start a fire

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW!


BDT

RuSsMaN

Ron, or Skaracrab Troy?

TroyD

got my edit on....

BDT

RuSsMaN

The more I remember about puntin' that ****, I think it was almost hacky-sack like, if memory serves correct, a very dull 'thud' off the top of my Puma's...

Troy, 'getting his whack on.....like a caveman trying to start a fire'...... WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Cheers,
Russ

Ron-P

Shhhhh I'll come out of my shell if rakarvan isn't looking


Peace Out~:D

TroyD

man, nothing like the feel of catching a dead crab carcas flush with your tennis shoes....

BDT

TroyD

Hey, not me, there Pele......

BDT

rskarvan

Step 1... admit that you have a thing for hermit crabs and your life has become unmanageable.

Step 2... stay away from the beech.

Step 3... stay away from Shell gas stations
(they are exploiting those who have hermit crab issues).

Step 4... never pick up that first "next" shell.

Step 5... stay out of Micah's sock drawer.

Step 6... Stay out of pet stores or any other place a hermit
crab may reside.

Step 7... Avoid any electronic reproductions of internet hermit crabs.

Step 8... Destroy all copies of Disney's... "Little Mermaid".

Step 9... Relocate away from any beach - midwest is best.
(nothing more tempting than a wild/free hermit crab).

Step 10... Carry this hermit crab message to others.

rskarvan

Touching Hermit Crab Story:
(I had know idea they had an exoskeleton that they needed to shed to grow). Weird.

Now I've been going through a similar process with my son, Max. A couple
of weeks ago 'Strongy ',Max's favorite hermit crab crawled out of his
shell, and wandered, and wandered. about his little cage, and then died.

There are few weirder creatures around; four antenna-feelers, eyes on eye
stalks, the oddest mouths I've ever seen. They live in borrowed shell.
Crawl around, scuttle really on claws. Trade shells when they grow too
big for the old ones. Max loves them. Some friends who come over to our
apartment don't even want to look at them, much less hold them.

Aliens do land, I figure my son is a candidate for the perfect kind of
person to send out to talk to them, Max's not biased toward the warm and
fuzzy, more human like animals.He identifies with hermit crabs, and as I
wrote sometime back believes he can talk with them by wiggling his
fingers the way they do their antennas -- the only problem Max thinks is,
he doesn't know what *he*, saying to them-- even though the hermit crabs
do .

He draws pictures of hermit crabs doing everything, sometimes in fighter
aircraft, sometimes as astronauts. He pretends he 's a hermit crab. He
writes songs about hermit crabs. They put one of his hermit crab songs up
on the blackboard at his school. I understand the psychological metaphor
his mind is working on, but it more tot it than that.

Last week my wife warned us Strongy was acting funny when he crawled out
his shell. I told her he was fine she was 'just worrying'-- my theory was
he was behaving differently because he was outside his shell. Max told me
later that hermit crabs at his school all crawled out their shells to die,
none of them die in their shells. Something touching about that and
strange. But I didn't know that, since they crawl out their shells to
move to other bigger shells and sometimes for not apparent reason.

In the morning, Strongy was dead. I was shocked, Strongy seemed
indestructible, and well named. Max was still goofing around pretending
he was a seagull and going to eat Strongy. I emptied a box of toothpicks
I use to apply glue. It was only when Max pushed and pushed on Strongy's
claw, and he didn't respond, and then he wrapped him in a tissue, that it
really sank in that Strongy was dead. Lacking an adult's anticipatory
imagination he went suddenly from seeming not to care to tears. He was
too upset to write Strongy's name on the floppy disk labeler I found to
seal the toothpick box with.

He cried and kept crying all the way across Central Park to school."
Strongy, poor Strongy." We stopped on the way. I had no intuition about
where to bury Strongy. I picked the far side of a small hill we walk past
each day so Strongy would out of sight, but easy to visit. Max put
flowers on Strongy's grave and later said, "Daddy, we should have buried
Strongy in the beautiful field with all the flowers." Then he added, " But
the side of the hill you picked is ok too."

TroyD

alllllllrightyyyyyyy then......

BDT

OrangeToupee

Good Christ .... I hope no one walks over to my cubicle and sees that my eyes are filled with tears, then glances at my monitor and realizes it's a result of a story of 'Strongy the Hermit Crab.' They'd ****-can me on the spot.

Ron-P

If my hermit crab starts to die, I'm getting Viagra. He's been out of his shell many times, but not for long periods of time.


Minute Man Out~:D

RuSsMaN

Thanks for the info 'uncut Ron'.

-UG-

Micah Cohen

Winner of the BEST THREAD OF THE DAY award!

LOL!

MC

rskarvan

Starfish Eats Hermit Crab ! ! !
(No wonder they like to cover themselves up with shells)

Ron-P

To quote the ginger bread man "Eat Me!".

Peace Out~:D