Tunnel Fever!

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Cydonia1
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Tunnel Fever!

Post by Cydonia1 » Fri Nov 07, 2014 9:51 pm

My Crabitat looks like the moon with all these craters! My crabs are digging holes and other crabs are digging into that same hole AND laying face first into the hole! They take the sorta crater shaped filled in hole and just plop their shell opening in there, and sit. I don't think they're trying to use them as hides, because the holes aren't anywhere dark.

And I've had crabs do the disappearing act but pop up the next day but I only have three out of eight crabs up! I lifted up the cocohut ( it's under the moss pit which is against the corner so it's pretty hard to reach and it's dark.) and there was one crab sitting against the wall because, *GASP* another deep tunnel! I brushed sand into it and Spring crab walked out.

I've only got Big Dude, who has been de-stressing in the moss pit for a month time wise ( and he was too covered in sand :hlol: ) Spring who was "trapped" by the tunnel and one of the three Steve's, also with a sandy shell. I'm still waiting for my new e to come back up, I got him in September and haven't seen him since the beginning of October.

Hoping that they didn't all sync their molts up :shock: Little dude is the only one that looked due for one.

But is the tunnel Fever a seasonal thing? It would make sense for crabs to have some sort of hibernation/Brumation in the cold months to avoid freezing, and their bodies getting confused with the lack of dropping temps.

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Re: Tunnel Fever!

Post by CallaLily » Sat Nov 08, 2014 8:13 am

Yes, I notice more digging during colder months - even with crabitat temps and humidity spot on.

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Re: Tunnel Fever!

Post by Cydonia1 » Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:10 pm

Now BOTH E's are up, so there are all sorts of fully made tunnels and craters holes now. Disco/Mirror E has been shell shopping but I only have 4 or 5 "E friendly" shells. I can't take photos but the only ones Kermit worn and the one that Disco dude is it look like these, but Kermit's has had the paint removed and is a blue-brown-white gradient.
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I can't tell what type they are nor have I found them for sale on the online shell shops, any help? There's two others like this that i paint stripped and boiled for them in there, a really light conch-ish shell that I got from Petsmart (Kermit's sat in it a couple of times, but no ones ever taken it), four Whale eye /Shark eye shells, and lots of medium small and large turbos.

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