{"id":9376,"date":"2013-06-10T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9376"},"modified":"2013-05-25T18:06:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T04:06:12","slug":"postcard-from-the-reef-different-occupants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9376","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Different Occupants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_9370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9370\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=9370\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9370\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CF43-83-13144-DC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pimpled Basket Snail\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9370\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pimpled basket (Nassarius papillosus) displaying it&#8217;s odd polka dot color scheme, depth 25&#8242; at Puak\u014d<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure id=\"attachment_9372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9372\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=9372\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9372\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CF44-02-13144-DC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pale Anemone Crab\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9372\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pale anemone crab (Dardanus deformis) using a pimpled basket snail shell at 30ft depth, Puak\u014d<\/figcaption><\/figure>The pimpled basket snail is quite common, finding a couple of them in the course of a night dive is no real surprise.  Finding and photographing the same type of shell, with two different occupants is an odd serendipity.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=9376\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Reef &#8211; Different Occupants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,23],"tags":[1090,288,1091,1089,98,37,909],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}