Crablog 11-28-05

• Today for the first time ever I got to see one of the crabs in the Salt Water pool. Petunia, our Brevimanus (Indo) was sitting there pretty as you please for about half an hour to 45 min just hanging out. She is a beautiful crab and such a sweetie; so very gentle whenever we take her out. She finally comes out to say hi now at least when we bring her out, at first she just hid in real tight.
• Tonight's dinner consists of scrambled egg, turkey meat, mango, cuttlebone, seaweed.
• Right before bed I walked by the tank and saw one of our little guys laying on his side and hugging a small shell. As I watched him he was turning it around and I realized that he was thinking seriously about trying it on. Steph and I sat there for about 30 min watching him turn it round and round, stick his head in the check out the inside and turn it some more. After a while I guess he finally got it in just the right position and popped on it; I didn't have a very good view of that but i knew he was in there. Anyway, he sat there, sort of moved around in it (as if he were shrugging his shoulders to feel how it fit), then tucked up to see if it would work. He sat another minute and then decided he didn't like it and popped back into his old shell. This one I got a great view of and saw his naked little tail end, lol. I guess I got "mooned". He kept sitting there holding on to the shell, stated to move away and then came back and grabbed it again.