Crablog & Menu

Silversides, frozen brine shrimp and pineapple.

We did a deep clean this afternoon and I didn't feel like being really creative tonight with the dinner.

The deep clean has done wonders with the activity. After we were done cleaning and then took some pics of the crabs (I'll post them later) they've been running around the tank all afternoon. I'm glad I put the fish net back in they've been having a ball on it.

Crablog & Menu

Last nights dinner: steak, pork chops, broccoli, squash all cooked in olive oil and garlic and a little bit of rice.

The only crab I saw out last night was Spaz at the food dish and that was around midnight. Tune was moving around a bit in the moss pit but I never saw him come out.

Crablog & Menu

Last night's dinner: Yellow squash, 10-grain dry cereal, broccoli, rolled oats & dried papaya.

Two nights ago I had slid out the tank a bit to look up from below to check on some crabs I knew were molting and I noticed another funny looking spot in the sand. It looked just like the spot I had seen in the back corner where I found Squirt dead. Well, as I feared, another one died under the sand. We knew that we hadn't seen TigerLilly or Tinker Bell (both PPs) in some time, or maybe we had only seen one but we didn't know who it was. When I saw that spot in the sand though, I figured it was one of them. Very odd, same scenario as Squirt; weird looking spot in the sand and when I got down to the shell, the body was all dried up and just crumpled out of the shell. The important thing is though, again there was no smell, not even when I got down to the shell; unless it was masked for a day or two by the smells of either sardines or silversides. It looks as though TigerLilly had changed shells and went down to molt and then died. I couldn't even begin to venture a guess on how long after we got that crab that it did all of this. Poor TigerLilly.

Crablog

Scrambled eggs, egg shells and Total Brand flakes.

Tonight I found that one of the Ruggies came up from a molt that looks to be successful. We had moved the 4 other Ruggies over to Steph's 10-gal tank at least a month ago and I wondered what had happened to this Ruggie (I think it's Ghost, the white one but we had 2 that were pretty light). He was pretty fiesty, no post molt shyness at all. I picked him up and he crawled right up my arm with those sharp little toenails and then when I finally got a hold on him he pinched the tip of my finger pretty good before I got him into the tank. Cranky little shit.