Crablog & Menu

Shredded carrot, Kiwi, Banana, & Raw shrimp tails.

I saw Oscar on the surface this morning so I'm calling yesterday (2/5/06) as Oscar's official 'molt complete' day. It's color has returned very nicely and it seemed pretty mobile. I haven't really been able to pick it up to check it over but before I left for work I looked real close with the flashlight and it appears that at least all the legs are there, I just couldn't tell if all the segments were. I want to check it over to see if this will be our 2nd successful molt. It seems to be so far.

I'm trying to keep some sort of log on each one of them so I can track favorite shells and shell size, purchase and molt dates and any other information that may prove useful in the future. I think the only way I'm really going to be able to do that is to get a website and have pages for each crab with statistics and picture. So far we've had 2 molts and I know the dates they came up to the surface but not really sure what date they went under. I would say that would be pretty hard to determine. Mine have a habit of digging down for several days then coming up for a night or two to get some food and then dig down again. Of course I just happen to have the worlds laziest crabs too; they never do the fun stuff like I hear everyone else's crabs do. They hardly ever have a night where a bunch are running all night long. Other people's crabs come out during the day, mine don't. They're all just a bunch of couch potatoes.

Couldn't find Oscar anywhere this evening to see if I could sex it or measure or anything. I don't understand where they disappear to sometimes...

Tune was sleeping in the corner closest to my bed and one of the times I looked in I saw something under him and I couldn't figure out what it was. Upon closer inspection I saw that Tune was laying on top of Beaker who was buried into the FB substrate right under the moss on the ground level. Apparently the Indo's really DO love the moss pit so anyone who is reading this, pay attention: INDO'S LOVE THE MOSS PITS!!!! Beaker and Tune have been camping out in there since about 2 days after I put it in. I'm glad I put it in now. Thank you to both Steph and the Hermit Crab Addiction member _ms_hecubus who both suggested it to me.

I nearly forgot, there are at least 2 more crabs down molting. I pulled out the tank some and looked underneath on the sand side and I can clearly see 2 more holes and at least one exo from under there. I can't tell if the other hole had pieces of exo or not, that crab just didn't leave much window at all. I can't see enough through there to know who they are either but I'm hoping one of them is Hermie and maybe the other little PP. Hopefully when everyone comes back to the surface from Molting Mania, the 'tat might get to hopping and we'll see some activity for a change.