What about a Crabby Wednesday?

[Rickg]

Here is a hermit crab from a night dive on Sangalaki Island. Taken with a MMI with 1:3 macro attachment lens and 2, YS-50 strobes.

Rickg

 

[Dee]

He needs to shave his legs! Very nice!!!

 

[scubatexastony]

hiding out in the coral....

I'm ready for some macro.....HOW many more days to go, Dee?

tony

 

[Rickg]

Dee once bubbled...
He needs to shave his legs! Very nice!!!

Dee,

Look whose talking - that arrow crab's legs look a little on the shaggy side also. Very good picture - I have yet to see an arrow crab while diving.

Rickg

 

[Rick Murchison]

Rick

 

[Juv]

Found this little one on a whip-coral. Hardly tell whether it's a crab

 

[Juv]

My Malaysian dive master called this one "U-rang U-tang Crab."
Does anybody know his/her common name?

 

[reefwreck]

Juv, if I am not mistaken, that is a type of spider crab, commonly known as an Orang Utang Crab (like the ape). I think you can probably see where the name comes from ! Otherwise known as achaeus japonicus.

Cheers.

 

[mapman]

Some crabs I have known
http://www.pbase.com/mapman/pickens

 

[luvdiving]

What I found was a Hermit Crab. He was crossing a wide open spit of sand. Very bright red. Johnston Atoll.:boom: