Stranger things - Glass hermits

[Flameback Pair]

@Reef and Dive is an incredible idea!! How about for Halloween Hermits? They are a fairly large hermit and full grown ones are all pretty much the same size. It might be easier for production purposes to make many shells all the same size? I am willing to buy, send me your PayPal info $$$$ !!!!!

 

[Jeffcb]

Crazy cool!!

 

[Reef and Dive]

@Reef and Dive is an incredible idea!! How about for Halloween Hermits? They are a fairly large hermit and full grown ones are all pretty much the same size. It might be easier for production purposes to make many shells all the same size? I am willing to buy, send me your PayPal info $$$$ !!!!!

Thanks a lot for the interest.

We do not have Halloween hermits to test here in Brazil, unfortunately…

I’m not actually the kind of business guy, I’m more the ideas guy. For this reason I have described my building process and the lessons I took from it…

One super interesting thing I noticed (will post a video about it on my YT chanel) is that hermits with color shells love to stay close to corals with that exact color (with camouflage purpose probably).

Some recent pics for you guys

The tiny skull guy (he loves to climb the kenya, so it is hard to take a clear picture):

The Kenya tree with orange “hermit-fruits”:

The mountain climber:

And the poor playstation nano tank at the moment:

And the abandoned Little Prince world inside my display tank, no hermits inside, covered in coralline…

 

[Janet Belanger]

This is ridiculously cool! Good job with the write up and the nifty shells!!

 

[Sink_or_Swim]

So far so good…

But sometimes hard to chose…

These are amazing!

 

[Reef and Dive]

 

[HomebroodExotics]

These are so ridiculous, I love it. Lots of fun.

 

[A Young Reefer]

Crazy cool!!!!

 

[Reef and Dive]

Thanks a lot! Crazy idea of mine…

 

[Sink_or_Swim]

Thanks a lot! Crazy idea of mine…

Love them! How heavy are they? Pretty light? I'd absolutely love a glow in the dark hat for my urchin, lol. Maybe a new project!

 

[Sink_or_Swim]

Thanks a lot for the interest.

We do not have Halloween hermits to test here in Brazil, unfortunately…

I’m not actually the kind of business guy, I’m more the ideas guy. For this reason I have described my building process and the lessons I took from it…

One super interesting thing I noticed (will post a video about it on my YT chanel) is that hermits with color shells love to stay close to corals with that exact color (with camouflage purpose probably).

Some recent pics for you guys

The tiny skull guy (he loves to climb the kenya, so it is hard to take a clear picture):

The Kenya tree with orange “hermit-fruits”:

The mountain climber:

And the poor playstation nano tank at the moment:

And the abandoned Little Prince world inside my display tank, no hermits inside, covered in coralline…

I wish you weren't in Brazil and were selling these for shipment to the U.S.! I would absolutely purchase.

 

[Reef and Dive]

Love them! How heavy are they? Pretty light? I'd absolutely love a glow in the dark hat for my urchin, lol. Maybe a new project!

They are very light. I made tests with different types of resins so they woud barely have enough density to sink. If a tiny air bubble is inside they float (less than a common snail shell). The hermits did not like heavy options.

 

[strawberryfish]

Seriously cool, I've often disliked the idea of removing shells from the wild. If these could be made in more naturalistic colors or perhaps out of some calcium carbonate based epoxy. I could see a lot of benefit in these replacing shells collected from the wild.

 

[Reef and Dive]

This was my best piece so far… my logo…

 

[Reef and Dive]

One more recent picture:

 

[Reef and Dive]

This was my best piece so far… my logo…

This, but now covered in coralline algae