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Time for a quick crab update. Two of my little guys recently changed shells. They both moved up to bigger shells, one is a lovely green and cream swirl shell with a mother of pearl interior, and the other is a caramel and white swirl shell with a soft white interior.



It's fun to watch them poke into the new shells to test them out. You wonder if they are checking to see if there is really another crab in there, or just checking out how the shell feels to them. One little guy was busy checking back and forth the last few days, but damn if he didn't change while I was away at work!



The second biggest crab has dug into the corner. He is due for a moult, so perhaps he is getting ready. I hope so.

Watching the littlest crab enjoy a bath is kinda like watching a person do the same thing, only much much smaller.



He approaches the bath/water dish, slips in a leg to test the depth and the temperature. That pleases him, so he hoists himself up to the edge, totters for a second, and then lowers himself in. There follows a couple seconds while he settles, wriggling this way and that, to get some water inside his shell and all the way to the back parts of him that we never see.



He rocks back and forth, toddling around in the bottom of the dish, getting all his legs and claws cleaned off. Then, after he's all done, he hoists one leg up and pulls himself up to the edge. He sits there for a bit to dry off....going straight back into the sand after a bath will result in him getting sand all over himself.



He toddles off to inspect the food dish, because don't you want a lil snack after a bath sometimes? I watch him have a few nibbles, then he's off to the corner to join his buddies in a pile up.



Such is an evening in the life of a little crab.

My big crab is sitting gazing at me while he eats his fruit treat. I buy this stuff called Crab Fruit Salad, it is dehydrated bits of fruit that you add water to and put in the crab food dish. My big boy LOVES this.



I picked out a few bits and moistened them, and Clawde watched intently while I dropped them into the food dish. He spotted the cranberry right away and as soon as I got my hand out he came over and pounced. He picked up the bit of fruit, turned it round and tasted it. Then he sat there for the next few minutes, breaking off tiny bits of it and eating it.



He never dropped that little bit of fruit. His sharp claws held it and pried off teeny pieces so he could eat. I wonder how, in the real world, if a hermit crab would ever encounter a cranberry...but he sure likes them. He also enjoyed the chunk of apple, and mango that were in the food dish.



If a crab could smile!

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Morrigon
01:01 Oct 09 2009

You give them all such a wonderful life

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