{"id":20501,"date":"2017-07-09T02:14:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T06:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=20501"},"modified":"2017-07-09T02:14:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T06:14:53","slug":"sunday-slide-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/07\/sunday-slide-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday slide 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ThinstripePortrait02.jpg\" alt=\"thinstripe hermit crab Clibanarius vittatus portrait witrh barnacles\" width=\"730\" height=\"1023\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20502\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>As badass as this guy looks with his knobby pincers and a couple of barnacles, hermit crabs tend to be pretty shy &#8211; thus, you know, the shell. This one even chose a particularly badass shell too, that of a <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/Tank\/Escargot.html\" target=\"_blank\">crown conch<\/a>, which I can tell you from experience you don&#8217;t want to step on.<\/p>\n<p>Taken in either late 2004 or early 2005 during my time in Florida and held just long enough for <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/Tankgallery.html\" target=\"_blank\">photos within my aquarium<\/a>, this was a pretty sizable specimen of the thinstripe hermit crabs (<em>Clibanarius vittatus<\/em>) that can be found along the east coast, at least<strong>;<\/strong> the shell that it occupied was a little smaller than my fist (which are <em>yuge!<\/em>) but don&#8217;t ask me how to get any kind of accurate measurement of the crab itself. I would have liked it if it had posed against the glass a little further from the corner of the tank so the silicone seam didn&#8217;t show in the frame, but that was easy enough to crop out for this dramatic closeup. And anyway, crabs don&#8217;t take direction well and this one soon moved on to a less photogenic position. Another that I captured at a different time was benevolent (or oblivious) enough to <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/Tank\/Hermitride.html\" target=\"_blank\">provide some entertainment<\/a> for other species in the aquarium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As badass as this guy looks with his knobby pincers and a couple of barnacles, hermit crabs tend to be pretty shy &#8211; thus, you know, the shell. This one even chose a particularly badass shell too, that of a crown conch, which I can tell you from experience you don&#8217;t want to step on. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1903,4,3],"tags":[173,3907,172,3908],"class_list":["post-20501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-nature","category-photo","tag-clibanarius-vittatus","tag-crown-conch","tag-thinstripe-hermit-crab","tag-vast-tracts-of-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}