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[colour=#696969]"Huh?" [/colour]Ruth muttered as he looked up from his sweeping at Heart-Shaped Box.

[colour=#696969]"Sorry kid, the place don't open for another 15 minutes. I have to wait for my employees to show up before I can let anypony in"[/colour]

[colour=#FF0000]"That'll be 8 bits for the carriage ride fare sir"[/colour]

[colour=#696969]"8 bits? What kind of scam you running here? I've gotten rides from little colts in the park in their toy red wagons for cheaper than that!"[/colour]

[colour=#000000]​The stallion pulling the carriage stared blankly at Ruth for a second.[/colour]

[colour=#FF0000]"Excuse me?"[/colour]

[colour=#696969]"Ah forget it" [/colour]Ruth said as he forked over the money and stepped out of the transport. As much as He would love to heckle anypony he thought was overcharging him for something, he had work to do. The carriage pony decided not to press the issue any further, and consequently, decided he might want to start accompanying his daughter whenever she went to the park. As he drove off, Ruth stood outside of his latest conquest, a Nightclub.

[colour=#696969]"And so begins another exciting chapter in the living Tartarus that is my career history" [/colour][colour=#000000]The 50 year old stallion said to himself in his ever raspy voice.[/colour]

[colour=#000000]He walked inside and flipped on the lights and set about to see if he couldn't clean up the place a little more before his few employees arrive. On the outside of the club above the entrance, big neon letters lit up illuminating the words "The Woozy Mantis"[/colour]

[colour=#000000]EDIT: This thread now has a theme song! Check it out.[/colour]

[colour=#000000]https://soundcloud.com/dj8tomixs-alt-account/the-woozy-mantis[/colour]

This is most likely going to be my only post in this particular thread, but my own personal philosophy regarding insects is that anything with more than four legs is an abomination of life.

Oh, except for house centipedes...they eat all the other insects and arachnids in my house, and I leave them alone.

We're all entitled to our own opinions my friend. However I do feel that I should point out that a vast amount of arthropods are incredibly beneficial to our human lives. Butterflies and Bees are a great help to the pollination of flowers and other vegetation. Flies and Millipedes eat dead and decaying plants and animals and keep the earth's surface from being covered in corpses. Like you mentioned, Centipedes, as well as Dragonflies, Praying Mantises, and just about every kind of spider there is, eat countless pests that actually are detrimental to human living. These predators themselves are practically harmless to us.

I should stop before I start ranting like Swirly does on science.

Fluttershy's leg twitched briefly.

Hey, I already made a thread for this! Are you sure there's enough room on the forums for two threads about wishing for the well being of others?

Cmon season 3, give me some kind of talking bug. I'll seize an opportunity to play as a arthropod in mane rp like a mantis seizes an unsuspecting cricket.

Sorry, it's not a bug highlight, but I just couldn't help myself.

Praying Mantises confirmed for giving the best eye rolls.

I'm thinking of something a little more, desert, for my next highlight.

And a happy new years as well!

Fluttershy faints briefly upon seeing Chrysalis.

Are we almost up to 9 episodes already?

Fluttershy hurried over to Twilight and Cadence. "Oh goodness, I'm terribly sorry I'm late Twilight. I would of come sooner, but I was in the middle of restocking my bird feeders when I got your letter"

does the comic story count as part of chrys' wrap sheet? or are we supposed to ignore her playing invasion of the body snachers/ pod people with pony ville and holding the cmc hostage?

Wait, comic story? I'm not sure if I'm familiar.

Stringheaet Twiliy is all yours and you should make next post, and I think we will be fine, we have most of the Mane 6.

Fair enough. I'll just wait for Stringheart to start us off then. Fluttershy is much too, um, shy to make the first post.

http://www.canterlot...eart-actual-rp/

I think we might want to wait until we have more people on board before we put the thread up Queenie. Course, having it up now doesn't hurt any either.

Thanks guys! Also, I just now saw that I used the word "estimated", twice in the same sentence in the Horseshoe Crab highlight. I'll go ahead and fix that.

Oh why you cant then? Well I will just have modify some ideas slightly, no biggie

Also Please play Rainbow Dash if you can puzzlebeat

You never said it would be in 18+ when we were talking about it, did you? But it's no big deal regardless.

Oh wait is everyone able to use the 18+ section on here?

Lol, it would of been nice if you had mentioned that earlier Queeny.

Alright, I've decided to keep the crustacean train rolling with a double crab highlight! First up, the Hermit Crab.

I'm sure you all know what a Hermit Crab is, but I'll give a brief review anyway. Hermit crabs are small crustaceans that are usually small enough to fit in your hand. They can be found all over the world par arctic regions. Marine species live in the coasts of Europe, North and South America, and Australia. Alternatively, land hermit crabs can be found in the Caribbean, Florida, Australia, and other warm places. They get the name "Hermit" because they borrow the shells of deceased gastropods to protect their soft abdomens and in a sense, live alone in them. Hermit Crabs aren't that picky though when it comes to choosing a home as long is the size is suitable. Hermit Crabs have been found living in things like hollowed rocks, empty soda cans, broken light bulbs, and even discarded shotgun shells!

Anyways, the name Hermit Crab is actually pretty ironic as they are very social animals that can live in groups well up to 100 or more. Aside from the obvious benefits of living in a group, this can also make it easier for individuals to acquire a proper sized shell. You see, when a group of Hermit Crabs come across a new shell, they will often form a line, from biggest to smallest. The biggest will move into the newly found shell. Meanwhile the next biggest will move into the biggest's formal shell. They repeat this chain of home exchange until everyone has a brand new, better fitting shell. But as with most social animals, they don't always get along. If there's not enough to go around Hermit Crabs will often fight one another for the rights of a shell, and may even go so far as to gang up on an individual to forcibly pull him out. Having a properly sized shell is very important to a Hermit Crabs survival. If a shell is too small, a Hermit Crab is unable to fully retract inside. If a shell is too big, he will be unable to fully block the entrance with his big claw.

Next up, we have the Horseshoe Crab.

There are only four species of Horseshoe Crab in this age, found most abundant in the Delaware Bay, the Bay of Bengal, and the southwestern seas of Japan. They're pretty sizable, with the females growing up to 18-19 inches in length and the males roughly 2/3rd's of the size. They also have an impressive life span living up to and over 20 years. Now despite the name and my previous concept of a "crustacean train", Horseshoe crabs are actually more related to arachnids such as spiders and scorpions rather then crabs. What's really interesting about these guys though, as that they are considered "Living Fossils" This is said that not only because have they hardly changed over time, but that they are estimated to have been around for a whooping 450 million years as evidenced by their fossils, of the non-living variety that is.

Alrighty then, there you have it folks. let me know what you guys think because I love your feedback! Now if your excuse me, I'm off to go practice Nyx Assassin in Dota 2.

I'd assume not, but I suppose anything is possible. If you have the money and ability to have an aquarium-esque habitat... And the means to take care of it... I cannot see why not...

I actually looked into it a bit and like swirly said, it is possible but not entirely practical. They are sold on the aquariam trade market, but they have something on a discouraging pet record. I'll link the sight I read up on it for you to check out.

http://www.tropicalfishfinder.co.uk/news_article.asp?id=2120

Mkay, fair enough. Feel free to lock the thread now.

Yeah, I thought as much. Any particular reason why?

This has been on my mind for awhile and might just be the thing I needed to get back into role playing. I'll spare you all the details, but would there be any rules against playing a walking, talking, sentient pony skeleton? Pretty much the same thing as a pony right, just minus the flesh and organs.

So. My husband was given a hermit crab for his birthday. We had been discussing getting one since August or so, but I was really against it. They just creep me out, and trying to hold one gave me the willies something fierce.

I don't think I'll ever be able to touch this little guy.

I had a hermit crab when I was younger, and I named him Skittles. I was also a bit weary of holding him in fear of getting pinched. I found that wearing winter gloves really helped. If he does pinch you, which he probably won't if your handling him correctly and with respect, he'll just grab the glove and not your skin. Also, I'll have a highlight up soon. For real this time.

I'll be flutty flut flut-girl thank you.