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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:From TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-23 02:02 · Score: 5, Interesting

This is true I had a pet hermit crab when I was younger and we couldn't find a shell big enough for it so I put one of my plastic toys in the cage with it and it took up residence in it the same day. Although, I have to admit that unless these crabs are in the wild it doesn't really matter because hermit crabs do not require a shell to survive it is only used for pretection from preditors. My hermit crab went without a shell for quite a while before I put a toy in the tank with it.