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3D Printers To Save Hermit Crabs

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 23, 2011 @01:29AM from the everyone-has-priorities dept.

Shareable writes "Makerbot just launched Project Shellter, which will leverage the Makerbot community's network of 5,000 3D printers to make shells for hermit crabs — which face a species-threatening, man-made shell shortage (they inhabit abandoned shells)."

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Re:Real problem? by ChinggisK · 2011-10-23 02:02 · Score: 4, Informative

Natural shells are in short supply because people pick them up and take them home.

No source other than my marine biologist wife and years of living near Florida beaches.