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purple pincher hermit crabs, you can tell this crab apart from other because they have a purple pincher. these need fresh water so the water we drink is the water they need to drink all other type of hermit crabs need salt water
Because when they pee thrugh their antanas they get it on their selfs and get infected
It depends on how healthy the hermit crab is in my opinion
well i just got a hermt crab and it said on the sheet to let him bath in water so i did butt then all of a sudden his big claw turned purple dose any one know what you think might have happened
Your hermit crab is pink because it just molted. hermit crabs are vertibrates which means they need to molt to grow. hermit crabs burrow underground to molt and stay their for a week to months.
There are aquatic and land hermit crabs. Some land hermies are the Purple Pincher (PP & the most common) and the strawberry hermit crab.
Normally the hermit crab is the only one kept as a pet.
If you go to buy hermit crabs at a store, you're most likely getting purple pincher crabs (also called Caribbean Crabs)
a purple pincher is the best
No, but this means you have a Purple Pincher Hermmie. I have one too, his name is Taco<3. But, anyways, to tell if you're Hermmie is a boy or girl you will have to look closely when it is out of it's shell a bit. There will be a hole at the base of its back set of legs ( not sure what side.. ) If it were to be a female. If it doesn't have these holes you are an owner of a Purple Pincher Male Hermit Crab! Hope this helps.?
You cannot tell the gender from their claws or color. You must look for the presence of "gonopores" at the base of the last pair of walking legs. Gonopores will be on the female crab they look like two small dots. Look up "hermit crab gonopores" for a photo reference.
The scientific name for a crab is Pediculus pubis.