"The salt beach will definitely be dealt with. Whether it is no longer used in the sun or is moved to another location, this piece of beach will definitely be cleaned up. But I will keep this piece of beach for myself, sorry." Xiang Yang said.
Everyone else felt very sorry and felt that they had missed a piece of golden and silver beach.
Keep going.
"That's the reef area over there, full of potholes and lots of water. Some of the puddles even have secret passages connecting to the sea, so it's not suitable to go forward." Xiang Yang said.
It would have been better if Xiang Yang hadn't said this. As soon as he said this, Li Chao, who was about to turn back, suddenly had his eyes light up. He asked in surprise, "You mean those puddles in the reefs have caves underneath that connect to the sea?"
Xiang Yang nodded, pointing to a puddle with a diameter of about six or seven meters and a circular shape, and said: "Under the puddle, there is a natural cave that is dozens of meters long. The cave goes through the reef area and then connects to the sea from under the boulder. There are many such puddles here, but unfortunately the size of the caves is not big enough. Most people can't get in after wearing a diving suit. Otherwise, we can organize a diving project here."
After listening to this, Li Chao's eyes lit up and he wanted to say something. Then he looked up at the people around him, and stopped himself from saying anything.
"Huh?" Zhang Qicheng suddenly exclaimed, somewhat unsurely: "Xiang Yang, look over there, why did I seem to see that snail shell move just now?"
Xiang Yang looked in that direction. On the beach in that direction, there was a reef that "grew" out from the ground like a bamboo shoot. At the bottom of the reef, there was a white snail shell the size of a palm.
"You're seeing things," Li Chao said speechlessly. "While conches can live out of water for a while, they will never crawl onto the shore on their own initiative. The conch is 20 to 30 meters away from the sea surface, and 4 to 5 meters away from the nearest puddle. The tide hasn't receded recently, so it can't be a living conch."
As a result, as soon as Li Chao finished speaking, the conch suddenly moved.
Li Chao: “…”
"Hermit crab." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
"It turns out to be this little thing." Zhang Qicheng walked over and picked up the snail shell. He held the shell in his left hand and shook it a few times towards his right hand. Immediately, a shrimp with its tail crooked fell from the shell into Zhang Qicheng's hand.
"In fact, hermit crabs should be called hermit shrimps." Xiang Yang said.
Anyone who has seen a hermit crab knows that it actually looks like a shrimp. Although its shape has evolved a bit compared to ordinary shrimp, it is still a shrimp and still has the proper characteristics and original form of shrimp. Although it is called a crab, it is very different from a real crab. It does not have the hard shell of a crab.
Zhang Qicheng smelled the snail shell, and a foul odor hit his nose. Zhang Qicheng quickly threw the shell away and cursed: "Damn, this snail just died not long ago, and the hermit crab didn't eat all the snail meat."
Xiang Yang smiled and said, "Isn't this a very normal thing?"
The snail shells that hermit crabs live in are generally live conchs.
Whenever a hermit crab sees a conch passing by it, it will look left and right. Just like humans looking at a house they are about to buy, the hermit crab will also look at its "new home".
If a hermit crab feels that the size of the snail shell is not suitable for its own living environment, it generally will not hunt the snail.
If the hermit crab feels that the size of the snail shell is just right for it, it will suddenly attack the conch, eat the meat inside the conch, and then drill into the shell itself.
After a while, the hermit crab will repeat the same trick as long as it finds a shell of the right size, regardless of whether the shell it is currently living in is damaged or not.
In fact, the hermit crab is also helpless. Its evolutionary technology tree is off. Its abdomen is soft and its tail is crooked. It does not have a hard shell like a crab, nor the agile swimming ability like a shrimp. It can only curl up in a snail shell to hide.
It would be fine if it encountered a natural enemy that couldn't bite the snail shell.
If it encounters a natural enemy that can bite the snail shell to pieces, the hermit crab has no ability to defend itself. It can only save itself by cutting off its legs, hoping that the predator will be full after eating its tentacles and will no longer focus on its main body.
Speaking of breaking legs, it is worth mentioning that not only hermit crabs have this ability, but many crabs have this ability.
Many crabs are born with a complete set of broken legs.
At the end of the crab's foot, there is a proximal muscle. This muscle is usually involved in the normal movement of the crab. Once an accident occurs, it becomes the crab's magic weapon to save its life. The proximal muscle will contract suddenly and quickly break the entire foot bowl.
Many people who like to eat crabs but don’t know how to cook them must have encountered this situation.
When you use clean water or a brush to wash crabs, you may feel that you are not using much strength and you don't even touch the crab's legs, but the washed crabs always have broken arms and legs. It is actually the crab's anterior muscles that are causing the problem.
"In the past, some unscrupulous chefs liked to use this trick to cheat apprentices at the end of the month. They would deliberately ask the apprentices to wash crabs, and then deduct the apprentices' wages on the pretext that the crabs' legs were broken while washing. Lao Zhang was cheated at that time." Li Chao joked.
"No one dares now." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
"No one can cheat me now." Zhang Qicheng said domineeringly.
"Let's not talk about this anymore." Li Chao lowered his head and scanned the beach carefully. "Hermit crabs are good things. They are also rare in aquariums. It's rare to come across one. Let's catch a few more."
"Do you like it?" Zhang Qicheng handed the one in his hand to Li Chao, "I'll give this one to you."
Li Chao didn't answer and continued to search carefully on the beach. "One is not enough. If I want to raise one, I have to raise a whole bunch. Help me find more quickly."
No one else moved.
Because although hermit crabs are magical creatures, they are not very ornamental.
The grayish-white hermit crab is the most resilient and the most adaptable to the environment, but it is also the ugliest and least ornamental hermit crab.
Hermit crabs of other colors are slightly better looking than gray and white hermit crabs, but their vitality is far inferior.
This characteristic means that no matter how magical hermit crabs are, they cannot be ranked among the ornamental fish.
And the price of hermit crabs is very low.
In coastal areas, there are small vendors selling hermit crabs at the gates of many primary schools. The price ranges from five to twenty yuan, depending on the size of the crab. It is really a very cheap ornamental fish.
Moreover, hermit crabs cannot be raised together. They may not be very capable, but they have a strong sense of territory. If you raise hermit crabs together, they will kill each other crazily.