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07/17/2007, 11:22 PM
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Ok, explain THIS.
This evening I noticed a hermit crab on my mag float, a foot or so above the floor of the aquarium.
Now I know those guys can't climb up the glass. I haven't touched my mag float for at least 3 days. I haven't seen him on the float for the last 3 days. How did he get there?!?    
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07/17/2007, 11:25 PM
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They can totally climb up the glass. Mine do it all the time. Once tiny microscopic particles attach to that glass, it's like rock climbing for the little critters.
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07/17/2007, 11:28 PM
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I'm betting on the snail.
 But they're clever little beggars.
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#5
07/17/2007, 11:30 PM
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Nooo, don't jump little dude!
 I think he might be trying to tell you something. 
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07/17/2007, 11:59 PM
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I've sat and watched mine climb up the glass. haha
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07/18/2007, 12:02 AM
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Interesting that some of you have seen them climb glass, because I've had this tank for 6 years and have never seen that.
The snail piggyback makes a lot of sense, as I've got a bunch of snails in the tank and on the front glass. |
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#10
07/18/2007, 12:13 AM
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I'd say he climbed the silicone up and over and fell off on to the magfloat........your glass seems much too clean for him to climb........I also like the snail hitchhiker theory
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#11
07/18/2007, 12:25 AM
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Mine were climbing up the silicone 5 minutes after I dropped them in. I guess they liked their freedom.
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07/18/2007, 01:43 AM
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I've had mine climb the silicone too...
But my favorite crab propulsion show is when they bother a clam and it slams shut, and the crab goes "ping" off the glass from the water displacement... Now if a clam got the trajectory just right, this could have been just a great bank shot... 
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#13
07/18/2007, 02:17 AM
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Obvious to me that he just jumped from rock to float.
 I have a shrimp goby that loves to grab hermits and move them about. (usually just back to his den for a little love I think)...maybe you have another type of crab carrying fish. 
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07/18/2007, 04:04 PM
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I've watched mine climb the silicone as well as the coralline covered glass.
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