Why do straight women and gay guys want to have sex with men?

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Smelly,
How do you know if one dies?


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It goes like this: You are 7 years old and the hermit crab is your first personal pet. One day when it is walking across your hand one of its legs falls off. You cry. Lots. Your Dad assures you that this is perfectly natural and the crab will probably be fine and eventually you accept this. Then the next day two more of its legs fall off and you don't want to go anywhere near its cage.

Then all the rest of its legs fall off.

And thats how you know.


Not that I have ever had a hermit crab or anything.

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Bison and FeelNothin, sorry to hear about your losses.

mr. Feelnothin, sounds like a case of PPS. Post-purchase stress. Likely it was nothing you did or could have done. it's stressful for hermit crabs who are first picked up from the beach/wild and shipped in awful conditions to pet stores and then mistreated by a lot of people. Some kids buy them when on vacation and don't even give them food or water. This causes them stress and they tend to drop limbs when they are stressed. But you sound like you're a good guy and I'm sure it's nothing you did. The crab was dead before you got him- you just didn't know it.

I'll tell you a story. I had one hermit crab two or three months ago that I bought from the store and one of his legs fell off while I was driving home. He dropped another leg two days later and after that he dropped both his defense claw AND his eating claw. He then dropped one more leg so eventually he only had two legs left- both on the far right. He couldn't walk and when he tried to push himself up using his back legs he just fell over onto the gravel. So naturally he couldn't feed himself or drink. I tried to hand feed him but it didn't work and I knew he was a goner. He died two days later and the worst part was having to pull him out of his shell with a car key and sticking the shell back in there for another hermit crab to use someday.

Sure enough one of my other hermit crabs moved into that shell when it grew big enough- just yesterday in fact. So that hermit crab's memory is living on.

[katyseagull]

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He died two days later and the worst part was having to pull him out of his shell with a car key and sticking the shell back in there for another hermit crab to use someday.



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Well that is one of the grosser things I've read. I think I would just throw the whole shell away and buy another one before I'd stick my car key in and fish it out.

[KaneKungFu123]

Why do some lesbian women dress and act like men, and date other lesbian women who dress and act like men? Why dont they just date men? Or is it that they want to date hot women, but can only pull other lesbians?

[Smelly]

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Smelly,

These crabs of yours are interesting. You buy them in a pet shop or just get them off the beach. Are they hard to keep alive in captivity? Did you name them? How do you know if one dies?



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Stuey-thanks for the questions.

I've been "crabbing", as they informally call hermit crab ownership, for about 5 months now. I bought all my crabs at the pet store and a lot of the crabs at this place are mistreated. I saw one crab once that kept lifting his food claw up and pawing at the air because he was so starved- truly a pathetic site. It angers me to see people mistreat animals like this. I would never purposely mistreat an animal for no reason like these pet stores that care only about profit do. You can find some on the beach and some people do get them this way. Some people go on vacation to beaches in Florida and find some on the shoreline where they usually travel in packs of 10 or 20. Sometimes people pick them up and bring them home with them where they are usually mistreated by people who have no idea what they should be doing for them.

If you are interested in purchasing a hermit crab or even just want to know more about them then I would recommend visiting your local Petco. I recommend Petco because their staff is very knowledgeable about unusual pets like hermit crabs and they make you sign a form saying that you won't just throw your hermit crab away if you get sick of it. This is a big concern because hermit crabs can live to be 15 or 20 years, even in captivity. I even know one lady who's had a hermit crab for 28 years! So this is defininitely not like a hamster or a gerbil that will die in a year or so. They're more like birds in the respect that they can live a long time.

As for your question about are they hard to keep alive in captivity- no, they are very easy to take care of. But you have to know what you're doing. There is plenty of good information on hermit crabs available on the internet but there is also a lot of garbage out there. One key difference between hermit crabs in captivity and wild hermit crabs is that captive hermit crabs will not reproduce. I've heard cases of it under simulated wild conditions but it is so incredibly rare that it's not even a concern.

As for my habitat, I currently have 5 hermit crabs. Two of them are incredibly tiny and would be able to sit on your thumb comfortably. One is about the size of a quarter and the other two are about the size of your palm. I keep all 5 of them in a long 20 gallon tank(30 inches long by 12 inches deep by 12 inches tall) with a screen lid. I filled the tank with 4 inches of calcium carbonate sand but play sand can be used as well, or gravel. The calcium sand is nice because the crabs can actually eat it and get nutrients from it. I prefer sand because it enables the crabs to dig easier which they like to do when they sleep. I have a food dish and a water dish in there. The water has to be chlorine free so you can either use spring water or just throw a couple drops of dechlorinator into a gallon jug and leave it overnight. Chlorine will cause blisters to appear on their gills. I also have a few little huts in there that I bought from a store online. It's good to have hiding places for them so they feel safe and my crabs love going in the huts(I have 3 huts). They all want to get in the big one though so It's not unusual for me to see all 5 lying on top of one another in the hut when I wake up. I also have temperature and humidity gauges in it to make sure that the temperature is 70-80 for them and the humidity is between 60 and 80. They like tropical weather and you can buy a cheap under-the-tank heater that plugs into the wall and velcros to the bottom of the tank.

They are nocturnal creatures so you won't see them out much during the day. Mine come out around 10-11 pm usually and will stay up till about 7 or 8 in the morning before going to bed- so they are great pets for poker players or insomniacs. They are very social and their "hermit" name deceives their true nature. If you are going to buy some then you should buy at least two so that they have another crab to socialize with. You don't have to worry about them fighting because it happens very rarely and they know their own kind when they see them.

They've very easy to take care of. The crabs bathe themselves in the water dish and all you need to do is change the water and food once every day or two and clean the tank once a month. They're great pets too if you want to get to know them and play with them but if you don't have time then that's fine too- that's why you get more than one so they will have each other if you don't have time. I tell people not to feel guilty about that because the crabs are still much better off with them than they are in the pet store, packed into a tiny tank like sardines

If you want to know more about hermit crabs just PM me or if there's enough interest then maybe I'll start an "Ask me" thread about them. Also, if anyone is interested in seeing pictures of my crabitat(habitat for crabs, haha) and the crabs in the tank, then let me know and I could post some.

Smelly

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He died two days later and the worst part was having to pull him out of his shell with a car key and sticking the shell back in there for another hermit crab to use someday.



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Well that is one of the grosser things I've read. I think I would just throw the whole shell away and buy another one before I'd stick my car key in and fish it out.

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That shell was used by another one even before him and it's a very well-made shell. It was really gross and smelly but whatever.

[man]

I wonder less about this question than I do about my inexplicable desire to put part or all of my body into a bacteria and potentially disease-ridden juicy orifice. but we should probably ask a scientist!

[katyseagull]

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Why do some lesbian women dress and act like men, and date other lesbian women who dress and act like men? Why dont they just date men? Or is it that they want to date hot women, but can only pull other lesbians?

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I've wondered the same thing. These girls are messed up. Some of the weirdest people I've met were lesbian women who dressed like men. My freshman year in college I met some of the girl's basketball team on my dorm floor. It was not a pleasant experience. These girls were the meanest, rudest girls I've ever met. I think they are completely confused sexually and I've learned to stay far away from people like that. They were pretty vicious. They hated straight girls, especially shy straight girls.

[bisonbison]

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Smelly, this is an awesome post.

Are they fragile little guys?

[Georgia Avenue]

This is best transsexual lesbian hermit crab suicide thread in OOT this week.

In answer to the OPs question, I think we can all admit that while men are unpleasant, dicks are fierce.

[Smelly]

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Smelly, this is an awesome post.

Are they fragile little guys?

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yes they are, and they are also quite dumb. When I hold them I hold them while I am sitting on the floor because they are quite fast and have no sense of heights. If I were holding them on a high surface then they would go to the edge and fall off. A 2 foot fall can be fatal for the big ones and a foot long fall can kill the tiny ones. When they fall, their delicate internal organs rupture. The shell provides little protection from falling.

They also pinch very rarely. Most of the time if they pinch someone it's because they are scared because they are being held up high and unsupported, and they just pinch to grab onto something and avoid falling. When the littles ones pinch it just feels like a little kid doing it but the bigger ones can draw blood. I've also found that the big ones pinch far far less than the little ones and are generally more friendly(but also more cautious).

Don't know if you've seen the picture thread, but if you haven't, here it is:

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