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@official-hermit-crabs
Hi! I'm soap, and I love hermit crabs and all other crustaceans!
my main blog is @oh-my-gosh-a-rock
I am currently applying for jobs, but the job market is actually trash rn and there's a high likelihood that none of them actually hire me, since I don't have any prior work experience and they want 40+ years of experience to organize shelves.
That being said, I'm highkey broke and need some sort of income, so I'll be opening commissions for art and tarot readings!
Art Commissions- starting at $10-15 for basic pieces, limited to cats (regular or pixel art! send pics of pets and I'll draw em :O ), hermit crabs, and I can do people but I may have to compromise on some things (such as clothes, extra limbs, pose, etc). I haven't decided on set prices for specific levels of drawing/work so DM me to negotiate lol (DM my art acct @soap-draws-silly-stuffs )
Tarot Readings- I am open to pretty much any spreads, be it one I know or not, and I have 5 different decks that you can choose which I use for your reading, so it's super personalized!!! I'll have a base fee of $5, and then instead of pricing by time, it's $1-2 per card (1 for basic reading and 2 for more insight, so the $2 is optional) with an optional extra $5 if you want pictures of all of my notes after! I would do it over text, tumblr dm, or instagram dm (can't do online calls), but I include sending pics of the cards and full spread in the base price :) ofc DM me for a reading or price estimate! (DM my witchy acct @soapy-sigils)
I'll be making a 'business' instagram account for this specifically, so I'll post this there too, and I'll post the link to that here soon!
gonna post this here- I've opened art and tarot commissions! to make it relate to this blog I will draw you ten thousand hermit crabs
being into some bullshit that nobody cares about and also is stupid really changes you
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idk kinda hermit crab related bc most of my attacks are on herit crab characters lol
sex is a distraction from your true purpose in life which is to go to the aquarium and look at the fish and go "wooooooaaah.... fishies". cmon guys we all need to lock in.
Make a hermit crab foraging mix with me!
He’s such a pretty color!
Beach Trip!!! (with hermit crabs, ofc)!
I recently went to Holden Beach, where my family always goes for vacation! This is the birthplace of my love of hermit crabs :) there are marine hermit crabs wild out where we usually stay, and I always enjoy looking for them! Anyway, this time I decided to record my hermit crab findings!
(other than wild marine hermies, I also saw terrestrial hermit crabs in two places, one being a store that has always had them for relatively cheap as pets, but they don't take the best care of them, they're in a wire cage and most have painted shells, but this time they weren't super overcrowded, and they had proper food and water, so that is definitely a win compared to how it has been in past years! I've had to make the staff give them food and water before :( ,,, I also saw them in a petsmart, which usually have pretty bad care, but these looked very well taken care of! anyway, onto the marine hermies lol)
I went out to see the wild hermits four days. Also of note, for as long as I can remember, we've had thinstripe hermit crabs (Clibanarius vittatus, Diogenidae) at this beach. This time, there were no thinstripes to be seen, they were all long-wristed hermit crabs (Pagurus longicarpus, Paguridae)????? idk what that's about but uhhh yeah thats whats there now so I hope wherever my thinstripes are they're doing ok. here's a pic of a thinstripe vs a long-wristed (from google)
Day 1 - didn't bring a container, so was unable to properly count them, but I would estimate that in 30 mins we (me and @boop-your-dragons) found about 30-40 hermies.
This was obviously the day I noticed they weren't thinstripes and that night I did excessive research on Paguridae. (looked through every available wikipedia page) Note to anyone who wants to research hermit crabs on wikipedia - theres. like nothing. most species don't have pages, and if they do, its like "This is a species of the hermit crab family Paguridae" with one picture. It is incredibly frustrating. 2/10 Do Not recommend.
Day 2 - brought a bucket, mostly looked by myself for about 30 mins, and found 31 hermit crabs. confirmed they were indeed long-wristed hermit crabs.
Pictures at end of post are from day 2*
Day 3 - brought the bucket again, looked with boop for about 30 mins, found 120+ hermit crabs. It was a hermit crab party. we technically found more, but we had officially stopped counting at that point. also found one dead hermit crab that unfortunately had a very large clutch of eggs on her. Who knows if they were fertile, but we took her out of her shell for another crab to have, and let her body go in the ocean. I had also found a large number of empty shells that were suitable for hermies, and scattered those around when we released them after counting.
Day 4 - we didn't go to the place in the ocean we went the past 3 days, since we didn't want to fully get in the water, but we walked all the way down to the end of the shoreline, and found what appeared to be the breeding grounds. it was literally hermie heaven. I would estimate thousands, at least 4k, because they were all down the shore towards the end. you had to look closely before you took a step, because they were all over the ground (in the shallow water), and had to walk very slowly because they were all so small that an unexpected wave from your feet would move them around from where they were walking. this day we also found a flat-clawed hermit crab (Pagurus pollicaris, Paguridae) (see image below, it's also from google). it was about twice the size of the largest long-wristed hermit crab and there was only one, so I guess it was just in the wrong place?
Now for the pictures we took (courtesy of my mom) under the cut!!!!
Which ocean animal is your favorite? Common Fangtooth vs Hermit Crab
Common Fangtooth
Hermit Crab
Common fangtooths are more active than many other deep-sea fishes and seek out food, rather than being purely ambush predators. Their huge mouths and very long teeth ensure that they are able to attack prey that they find in the very large, food-poor deep sea. They grow to about 6 inches and have the largest teeth size to body size ratio of any ocean animal. 
Hermit crabs are fascinating, social crustaceans that live in beaches and oceans worldwide, using empty snail shells for protection. They have a soft, curled abdomen and lack a hard exoskeleton on their tail, requiring them to live in shells, unlike most crabs.
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well the poll is over but I think we all know what my vote is 🫡
get em! gEt EM!!!
Will you treat him gently with his bread soft carapace...? (...)
ohhhh he looks so fluffyyy
does anyone want to see a really good picture of my kitty cat
not a cat, first off
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Valentine's day is abt crustaceans. btw. the day of lobsters and crabs and hermit crabs and shrimp and horseshoe crabs adn isopods. btw. just so u know
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My attempt at butch jewelry, the crababiner
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This is very important and you all need to see it right now
Now I'm not the official shrimp guy,,, but what a lovely little stamp! <3
all of my orange rilis are saddled but not berried. every one send “get pregnant” thoughts to my shrimp🫄 🦐