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#1 Mad_Jack Apr 05, 2012 19:41:12	Even crabs...  If I ever get stinking rich, I'm going to spend like $50 million to build a real mansion out of LEGOs.
#2 The_Silversword Apr 05, 2012 22:54:44	it looks like to me that the crab already had a shell and they just built legos around it, which seems like it would just hamper the crabs movement, but admitily i know next to nothing about hermit crabs, so maybe what i think looks like a shell is actually some sort of soft membrane or something?
#3 sfdragon Apr 05, 2012 22:55:23	I think its just nasty
#4 jetshield Apr 05, 2012 23:10:59	They built a lego house around a shell, and placed it in the tank with other shells. Hermit crabs, unlike most crabs, don't grow their own shell. They have soft bodies, so they use discarded shells of other animals for shelter. A hermit crab changes shells many times during it's life. Sometimes it outgrows the shell it's been using, but other times it finds a shell that, apparently, it likes better for some reason known only to the crab. I had a hermit crab in my fishtank that showed a distinct preference for brightly colored shells. If it had the choice between a drab shell and a bright one of about the same size when its current shell got too small, it would inevitably pick the bright one. I even saw it leave it's new shell and try to squeeze into colorful shells that were too small for it on more than one occasion. Hermit crabs are weird.
#5 ADHadh Apr 06, 2012 7:31:06	If I ever get stinking rich, I'm going to spend like $50 million to build a real mansion out of LEGOs. James May beat you to it. They built a lego house around a shell, and placed it in the tank with other shells. Hermit crabs, unlike most crabs, don't grow their own shell. They have soft bodies, so they use discarded shells of other animals for shelter. A hermit crab changes shells many times during it's life. Sometimes it outgrows the shell it's been using, but other times it finds a shell that, apparently, it likes better for some reason known only to the crab. I had a hermit crab in my fishtank that showed a distinct preference for brightly colored shells. If it had the choice between a drab shell and a bright one of about the same size when its current shell got too small, it would inevitably pick the bright one. I even saw it leave it's new shell and try to squeeze into colorful shells that were too small for it on more than one occasion. Hermit crabs are weird. What, you wouldn't want to have the pimpest shell in the whole ocean?
#6 draco1119 Apr 06, 2012 8:32:36	If I ever get stinking rich, I'm going to spend like $50 million to build a real mansion out of LEGOs. James May beat you to it. I like this one the best.
#7 Mad_Jack Apr 07, 2012 4:02:14	If I ever get stinking rich, I'm going to spend like $50 million to build a real mansion out of LEGOs. James May beat you to it.   No, I mean a real fully-functional completely up-to-code 15- or 20-room mansion, not a playhouse with fake newspapers and a fake cat...
#8 homicidal_squirrel Apr 07, 2012 20:31:03	How much does the square-foot in Legos go for?
#9 The_Silversword Apr 07, 2012 22:17:27	Buying by the pound would be better. that goes for alot of things haha
#10 sfdragon Apr 07, 2012 22:25:19	you cant buy by the pound anymore its by the euro now
#11 sfdragon Apr 08, 2012 20:27:23	I thought they did....... oh well....
#12 The_Silversword Apr 08, 2012 21:04:10	nope they still use pounds, had to get this Iron Maiden cd and the only place i could find it was in England so I had to pay extra to have my us currency converted to pounds.
#13 sfdragon Apr 08, 2012 22:21:25	oh blimey.... bet that was a pounding headache
#14 sfdragon Apr 09, 2012 12:50:39	guess you'd know