Crablog & Menu

First things first, a HUGE and sincere thanks to my friend Amie who made the VERY cool moving crab logos you see at the top of the page. She's created some extremely cool images from digital pictures using a Photoshop program. Check out the Addictions CafePress site for more of her creations.

Apple, honey, cuttlebone powder, various variety pack items from the Hermit Crab Addiction Store.

It's been quite a while since I've posted and I'm going to try to be much better at it, but I guess we'll see what happens. In the meantime, I'll try to catch everyone up on the latest happenings in the past 3 weeks or so.

My birthday was on 22 March and it was fun. Steph and the kids made me a cake that had a hermit crab on it. I was going to post pictures because it was cool, but I don't seem to have them on this computer so I'll get back to that later.

Beaker and Spaz are still buried.

On 24 March we went to Petco in Gaithersburg and got 2 new Ruggies. It wasn't really a happy purchase as the reason we bought one of them was because he was running around the tank with no shell on. We called him Jay for Nekked as a Jaybird. We got him a tank mate from there that we call Sam because of his interesting Salmon coloring. Very pretty crab.

That weekend we found a dead crab, a little guy. Steph and the kids took him back to Petco on the 27th and came home with another Ruggie (Stitch) and a Strawberry (Lilo). This Straw is a little girl, not nearly as big as some of the monsters I've seen in the stores and I'm very happy about that. The Ruggie is a bit bigger than the others but is a pretty dark blue.

That same day Steph decided to get me a 40 gallon breeder tank as a birthday present. We went out that night after work and got all the stuff and came home and put it all together real quick. We didn't do much decorating because we needed more stuff and so it looked a little bare for the week but we had plans to go out shopping on Saturday. We got all the crabs out of the 10 gal in there and about half of the ones out of the 20 gal as the rest of them were burried.

On 1 April we went out in search of some more cool decorations for the new tank. We were going to go to Petco in Rockville to see if we could find another little Straw for Steph and Lilo. I remembered an aquarium store near there and wanted to stop by to see what they had and get some ideas maybe. Steph went one way and I the other and a few minutes later she found me and said she'd found some crabs she hadn't seen before. Lo and behold they were the ones we have been wanting and couldn't find; Coenobita Compressus, otherwise known as, Equadorians or Es. Steph says she loves their fat, juicy looking legs, I love their cute little eyes. I've been hearing stories about everyone's Es since November and have wanted them so badly. They sound like they are the most active of all the species. I just found out, however, that Straws are rather active too. Anyway, we went to Petco and we went to Michaels for decoration and then we went back to the aquarium for the Es. The funny thing is we talked a little beforehand about how many we wanted to bring home, good thing neither of us signed an oath in blood. We ended up with 12; 1 monster, 3 mediums and the rest teeny-small size. I was going to put all the crabs in the 40 and sell the 20, but that plan blew up getting all these new guys.

Well, it's late and I'm pooped; barely able to keep my eyes open. I'll try to write more tomorrow about all the happenings, some details I've missed, and try to post some pictures of both the tank and the new additions. Steph has once again taken some awesome photos and deserves to have them shown off.