GotButterflies wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2019 3:16 pm
I saw this on Instagram, and it really doesn't do the tank justice! You both are soooo creative! I love it!! It's so adorable! Great job!
Thanks! I like Instagram for quick posts and random pictures for lots of people to see quickly. It's really hard to get detail in the pictures and viewing them on a phone doesn't help to see detail either.
After playing with the egg crate which if great for 95% of crabs everyone has, we needed something smaller for the babies to grip. Our crabs crawl all over the egg crate material and is pretty easy to cut and secure stuff to. I also hate how tanks look with an UTH taped to the back. It always makes the tank appear dark.
I got to thinking about the colors of crab mesh. They have tons of colors and since most baby stuff is light blue or pink we opted to go with a blue back ground for a summer sky. I was going to make the palm trees out of crab mesh then thought scrap bits of cholla would be perfect for the trunks, and leaves on the vines we got resemble palm trees. Xeno looked at me like I was crazy at first. I really think the possibilities for decorating are endless for crab mesh. The best thing is it's really cheap and very easy to work with. It can be used for a lot more than just getting in and out of water pools and on wheels for better grip.
The Crabby Cubes are great! Since they get filled with popcorn, one of our crews favorite treats, they are instantly attracted and pick away! They can empty out 3 pieces of popcorn in about two hours! I was playing with the design a little bit this weekend. if you cut the mesh in the shape of a cross you need far less zip ties. Plus if you put the locking part of the zip ties on the inside of the cube they look a lot cleaner!