I was so excited a couple of weeks ago when my smaller large PP -- Red Sonja -- came up from a molt all beautiful and purple. I've had Red for about 6 months, but had recently bought a larger large I named Conan the Barbarian, and they both went down for their first molt at the same time.
Well:
A. Since Red is a smaller crab I thought I would see her back up sooner.
B. Since Conan went down to molt roughly five minutes after I brought him home, I was really afraid he would quietly die underground and I wouldn't know about it until the smell hit me
.And so... I totally misidentified my happy molter! That is until yesterday, when I found Red at the tail end of her molt during my deep clean. She's very, very fuzzy
. I ISO'ed her in an upside down cup last night with the last little bits of her old legs and she'd tunneled out by today and was scooting around the tank.BTW, what should have been a real dead-giveaway as to Conan's identity? His gender! Except that when I brought him home I had a hard time figuring out what he was and finally determined he was a he. Guess what? In his newly molted form "he's" really a girl
. I'm thinking "Conanda", based on Conan O'Brian's character "Conando".It's all good. Sonja looks great, and my big-biggie Conanita (Connette, Conista, Conelita...) isn't a rotten smear at the bottom of my 'tat.
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