Crablog & Menu

Banana, 10-grain dry cereal, carrot baby food, frozen brine shrimp, walnuts, dried papaya, with honey drizzled all over.

Wow, it's been a LONG time since I've posted anything and a lot has happened.

Petunia finally came up from it's molt around the 12th or 13th of this month. It looks great (I'm using it because the sex is still unknown) and the colors are realy starting to brighten up. It wasn't moving about too much for a few days but then for a few days it was pretty active, hanging out all day in the open, checking out shells and all kinds of stuff.

I ordered and received $50 worth of shells from Naples Sea Shells. Those people really take care of the shells and make sure they are of really great quality. I'll have no problem ordering from them again if I ever need to. Unfortunately, not one crab has even tried out one of the new ones. They sure went nuts over the ones I got free from work but here I go and shell out (yep, pun WAS intended there, lol) a bunch of money they don't want to have anything to do with them at all. Damn crabs anyway.

The Hermit Crab Addiction site is really moving up and broadening horizons. One member is really great with graphics and she came up with a pretty cool logo. Then they started up a CafePress store and stuck it on some shirts and stuff and it looks great. Then someone decided that it would be cool for members to send in pictures of their crabs and she'd edit them around some and create a calendar. Both of our Indos made it in; Beaker for March and Petunia for December. I think that is just the coolest, I really do. We are still waiting for the calendars to get here. I've also ordered a sweatshirt that has the logo on the front and on the back a picture of the Coenobita Clypeatus and it says, "My PP is bigger than your PP". That was just too funny. I got Steph a t-shirt, we both got license plate holders and I got a mug.

I also got Steph a couple of crabs on the 14th. 2 PPs and another Indo so Petunia would have a buddy. We decided to do a little switching around 'cause we only have the 10 and a 20 gal tank. So, we put the Ruggies into the small tank (one of them must be down for a molt) and a small PP (I believe one of the ones Steph just got) and we're going to put one or 2 more PPs in there and then the bigger ones are in the bigger tank. Here are a couple of pictures of the new ones. We have Beaker the male Indo, Gonzo the female PP and Spaz the female PP.