Crablog & Menu

Coconut, Total bran flakes, crushed walnuts with honey drizzled over all. Popped some popcorn for them too.

Tune has changed shells several times and now is back in his old one. This afternoon he was hanging out under the cork bark and I put a piece of popcorn down in front and after checking it out for a second he pulled it under him and started munching away. I think if the house would have been quiet I might have been able to hand feed him but the conditions weren't right. The kids got home early from school so it was noisy.

Deep Clean

So I decided to attempt my first deep clean on Saturday. This was a lot of fun (sarcasm) because I caught a cold from one of the kids and wasn't feeling the greatest. Actually it wasn't all that bad though because with me and Steph both working on it, it went pretty fast; just a little over an hour I guess. At least we didn't end up digging up any molters; I was really worried about that. The hardest part really was figuring out exactly where I wanted to put stuff and what I wanted to put in. I didn't put in the half log this time, Steph wants it to dry out really good so I just put in a larger hut and a small cocohut but they have a big plant in the back to hide in and under and LOTS of digging room. The crabs had so much fun Saturday afternoon and evening I just couldn't believe it. I have never seen so much activity going on in my tank in the nearly 4 months I've had it. It even spurred a shell changing frenzy too. They kept waking me up all night from the clanking on the glass they were all doing as they were frantically climbing and shell shopping. I'm sure all that fun activity will cease immediately but it was fun for a day or two.

Anyway, so here are the pics of the newest design and there's a bunch more sand AND FB. Last time I used the Forest Bedding from the bag and I hated that stuff and I'm throwing it out. I do not recommend it as there's some pretty big chunks of wood in it. This time I used a brick of the EE and there's also Bed a Beast and it's much finer. There's about 5 inches each of EE and sand and then another couple of inches of moss on top the EE which we found they LOVE. Below the 'tat pics are pics of the crabs when we were putting them back in.




Tink (PP)-Note the interesting pink color on the legs:



Beaker (Indo):



Tune (Indo):



Spaz (PP)-This is the Psycho crab:



Kermit (PP):



And I don't know who this is anymore (PP):



And here is Kermit again watching the Olympics with me Saturday night (we were busting on Bode Miller):

Crablog

Wow, I cannot believe how much activity was going on last night in the tank. There were crabs running around all night and they kept waking me up. Seriously, I'd wake up from their shells rubbing and clanking on spare shells as they were checking them out and clanking and banging on the glass all night. Talking about the shells, this whole thing has spurred a huge shell swapping party too. Tune changed at least twice if not more and Kermit took a different striped turbo that is also too small for him and I think Spaz stole Kermit's old shell. It's already bad enough that I don't know who it was I found dead in the tank but now everyone is changing shells so now I'm really going to be confused.

Oh yeah, and the little shelf I had put in as a second level. No one really wanted to have anything to do with that either. I had spare shells in there and no one would climb up to take a look. All I did was move it to the other side of the tank; it has the same piece of cork bark leading up to it and still has spare shells in it but now everyone wants to be in there. In fact, Kermit hung out up in there for a long time tonight watching the Olympics with me and boo'ing Bode Miller as he screwed up his 5th and final chance of winning any sort of medal.

It's been a lot of fun watching them run around the past 2 days. Pictures will be up soon.