Hermit crabs - a unique type of crab is often also called the umang-umang, pong-pongan, or a hermies. Why is it called a hermit crab? That is because he has a habit of hiding in its shell. Animals with asymmetrical abdomen are decapod crustaceans of the superfamily paguroidea. Most hermit crabs have a long spiral-shaped belly that are soft. To protect the stomach from predators, he wore an empty mussel shells were always carried everywhere. Often he also wore unusual objects such as cap bottles, rocks, sea urchins or anemones to be used as a shell.
Along with its growth, hermit crabs are routinely changed 'home'. When the shell was inadequate for the growing body size, it will search for 'house' that has a cavity that is enough for him.
Hermit Crabs Vacancy Chain
Another unique thing of this Hermit Crab or kelomang is the use of 'vacancy chain ' in finding of new shell. In the 'vacancy chain ', some Hermit Crab will gather around the new larger shell. They will form a kind of queue starting from the largest, and smallest in the rear. The biggest crabs is going to replace it shell with a new shell which is still empty. Then the crab behind it will use the former shell from big crab shells to replace ever. So on to the smallest crab also get a new shell from the Hermit Crab that is in front of him.
Land Hermit Crabs and Water Hermit Crabs
In General, Hermit Crabs is divided into two major groups, namely Land Hermit Crabs and Water Hermit Crabs. Water Hermit Crabs has habitat in salt water or sea water. Most species belong to the Hermit Crabs type of Water Hermit Crabs. They usually live in shallow waters and coastline, to the bottom of the sea in. Land Hermit Crabs is found in the tropics. Although belonging to the type of land Hermit Crabs, the larvae are aquatic cwhich need access to water for the purposes of reproduction. In General Hermit Crabs active at night, or commonly referred to as nocturnal animals.
Hermit Crabs are Different from Snail
Don't get mistaken by equating Hermit Crabs with Snails. Hermit Crabs and Snail are two different kinds of animals. In the Indonesian Dictionary, Snail means soft animal with footed stomach and has single shell. While Hermit Crabs is not a soft-footed stomach animal or gastropod. Hermit Crabs species distinction is usually based on a shell which it put on. The uniqueness colorful of the shell that what makes these animals often become domesticated, and even had started to be sold at varies price.
Age of Hermit Crabs
Hermit Crabs can survive up to tens of years if placed in its natural habitat. He is very vulnerable to pollution. Therefore, if you want to make the Hermit Crabs as a pet, we should absolutely keep clean its cage. Hermit Crabs included into omnivores who only eat plants, fruits and other animals that are smaller than its body.
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