Young hermit crabs doing what hermits do ...
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| Small hairy hermit, Pagurus hirsutiusculus, very happy with a brand-new shrimp pellet. |
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| Climbing the eelgrass. He's freshly molted; his carapace is clean and bright. It doesn't take long for algae and gunk (sometimes even baby barnacles) to begin to settle there, turning him to a dungy grey-green. |
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| Small and smaller. Compare the size of the sand grains. The larger of the three is checking out a new shell, but soon decided it wasn't good enough. Wrong shape, wrong weight, wrong taste? Who knows what appeals to a hermit crab? |
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