![Yellow-Spotted Guard Crab](http://darkerview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/CF85-90-13286-DC.jpg)
Tag: crab
Postcard from the Reef – Haig’s Hermit Crab
Yellow-Spotted Guard Crab
Laurent’s Hermit Crab
Laurent’s Hermit Crab
Guard Crab
Postcard from the Reef – Laurent’s Hermit Crab
Convex Crab
Yellow-Spotted Guard Crab
It was a good day for photographing guard crabs. I was not finding much else worth photographing anyway. Numerous large antler coral colonies spotted the slope, each home to a small community of animals sheltering amongst the branches. Hawkfish, coral crouchers, various hermit crabs, and guard crabs. I came up with half a dozen decent photos of different guard crabs. I will not bore you with all of them, at least not all at once…
![Yellow-Spotted Guard Crab](http://darkerview.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/CF86-25-13286-DC.jpg)
Postcard from the Reef – Different Occupants
Snails move at a surprising speed underwater, much faster than their terrestrial counterparts. This shell was moving much to fast even for a marine snail. A hermit crab, of course. The shell was familiar, I had photographed a snail wearing the same shell a few mere minutes earlier. The hermit crab was using a basket snail shell.
In the course of identifying the hermit crab I was surprised to learn it was an anemone crab. These usually host an anemone or three on their shells. This crab had none. A new shell? No time yet to recruit the usual anemone? It was fairly small for the species, perhaps a young example.