I don’t have a tank of my own anymore (RIP BioCube
https://www.reef2reef.com/index.php?threads/TikiBird's-first-SW-tank-(BioCube-29).265785/), but I was at Bodega Bay (Northern California) this week and spotted this little guy on the beach. (Hope it’s OK to post here.)
He was on his back with legs wiggling in the air (four maybe?), covered with sand stuck to him so he was hard to see. He was about 2 inches long. We flipped him over and this is what his shell looked like.
He didn’t seem like he wanted to be on dry sand and he was very far from the water (maybe a bird picked him up and dropped him here?) so we brought him to the shoreline. We hoped to get a pic of him when the sand rinsed off, but soon as he hit some water he buried into the wet sand immediately!
I was thinking a crab but the shell doesn’t look like any I’ve seen. Maybe a hermit crab that moved into another shell? Any thoughts?
[Edit to add: I’ve tried googling but it’s tricky because most of the crab articles about Bodega Bay are about eating them!]
https://www.reef2reef.com/index.php?threads/TikiBird's-first-SW-tank-(BioCube-29).265785/), but I was at Bodega Bay (Northern California) this week and spotted this little guy on the beach. (Hope it’s OK to post here.)
He was on his back with legs wiggling in the air (four maybe?), covered with sand stuck to him so he was hard to see. He was about 2 inches long. We flipped him over and this is what his shell looked like.
He didn’t seem like he wanted to be on dry sand and he was very far from the water (maybe a bird picked him up and dropped him here?) so we brought him to the shoreline. We hoped to get a pic of him when the sand rinsed off, but soon as he hit some water he buried into the wet sand immediately!
I was thinking a crab but the shell doesn’t look like any I’ve seen. Maybe a hermit crab that moved into another shell? Any thoughts?
[Edit to add: I’ve tried googling but it’s tricky because most of the crab articles about Bodega Bay are about eating them!]
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