I started crabbing back in August/ September last year. I upgraded to my 55gal tank in the beginning of October. When I upgraded I had one original crab and 4 other PPS that I had purchased from a store. Once the new tank was all set up I immediately placed my 5 crabs in the tank. My original guy (Bruce) had been kept in a wire cage for my cousins for an undetermined amount of time. Needless to say I'm sure he was in a bad way. Once he was in the tank he dug immediately down and I have not seen him since.
It has been almost 4 months with no sign of him. Seeing as he was a small crab I had honestly believed that he did not make it.
THEN- a few weeks ago I noticed a crab who didn't look completely familiar. I kept thinking that it was possible that one of my other crabs had changed a bit of color and just looked different to me. But he had a damaged eye.
Yesterday while cleaning my tank I took all my crabs out and to my surprise I had all 10! Since October I have always counted 9 and I had 10! This mystery crab was indeed Bruce! My other crab Sokka who has similar colorings must have dug down for a week or two. Just enough to throw me off, making me think that Bruce was sokka. But now every one is up and I couldn't be happier!!!!
These are pictures of Bruce. He came up In That jade banded turbo and switched to that super large banded turbo just this past week. His right eye is damaged- I'm assuming it happened during his molt. I think he must have gone through quite a few molts trying to get healthy and then fix his eye. It already is looking better!
This was just such an unexpected happy ending! Bruce lives!
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