Limey the Horseshoe Crab

I took him home for the day from the integrative biology labs. He was fun!

As a quick answer to most questions:

No I did not keep him, I had him for a day and that was it. I kept him in a bin filled with treated saltwater, you can see it in the background.

Yes, it is perfectly fine having it out of the water, they naturally come out of the water all the time in the wild. You are ignorant to think me inhumane for having it out of water.

The labs I took him from could care less if I took one. They had about eight or nine of them. Aside from the one lab we did extracting hemolymph from them, they had no other use for the rest of the school year. They are relatively cheap and the college most likely buys them from a wholesale biology supplier.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• horseshoe
• crab
• crawl
• horse
• shoe
• limey
• limulus
• polyphemus
• limulidae
• pet

[Dragonite7000]

they are so much faster in the water OMG, LIMEY, from the scientific name, really!?

[zorra578]

@Dragonite7000

yep, you're the first person to notice that :)

[Kelobozo]

She captured a KABUTO!

[TheChantonie]

a wild kabuto appeared

[sistergoat]

They're so cute when they scoot around.

[hayman122]

Who has a pet horse crab wtf????

[GreenNastyRabbit]

I don't know why but these creatures scare me :s

[AbduCola]

I hear they're pretty good

[canmoore]

Closest living relatives of Trilobites!!

[41192tara]

cute!

[ronell100]

Arent they used for medical tests? just the blood.

[catz343]

0:24 best funny part

[shadowgleen]

@mzh3000 I also thinked that :D

[mzh3000]

They look like triops