What are your crabs up to?

Where we discuss the behavior of our hermit crabs, as in fights, pecking orders, shell swaps, etc. Please post all naked-crab posts in the Emergency forum.
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Re: What are your crabs up to?

Post by Ryry » Mon Nov 17, 2014 12:04 am

Lol I had a tamagotchi too!
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Re: What are your crabs up to?

Post by moonbeam » Mon Nov 17, 2014 12:11 am

Haha yes that is exactly what I was thinking of!


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Re: What are your crabs up to?

Post by KellyCrabbieLove » Mon Nov 17, 2014 12:19 am

I got nostalgic one day and downloaded the app. Within 8 hours I uninstalled it. It was just too annoying.
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Re: What are your crabs up to?

Post by Ryry » Mon Nov 17, 2014 12:36 am

Sounds like fun and then it sounds like virtual responsibility.... Ain't nobody got time for that.
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Re: What are your crabs up to?

Post by KellyCrabbieLove » Mon Nov 17, 2014 12:42 am

Haha!
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Re: What are your crabs up to?

Post by moonbeam » Mon Nov 17, 2014 11:11 am

Well I had to do it. Had to download the tamagotchi app just to do it lol. It's already uninstalled. But it was nice to walk down memory lane Image

So late night I caught 3 crabs out and about! Little Thumbelina was shell shopping but the little shell snob didn't pick anything new out. And caught little mama stuffing her face haha. Bash sitting next to the dish waiting his turn. I need to get some bigger food dishes now that I have more crabs! ImageImage

Ok and seriously, Bob has been half buried for 2-3 days. I can just see the top of his shell sticking out. Do you crabs do this? What the heck is he doing?


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Re: What are your crabs up to?

Post by YYWW » Mon Nov 17, 2014 11:23 am

My crabs have never half buried they're either up or dooowwwn


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Re: What are your crabs up to?

Post by moonbeam » Mon Nov 17, 2014 11:32 am

I haven't seen anyone else do this. He dug a trench about a week maybe two ago. Then he "closed" it or something. The tench was pretty much filled in but he is still sitting in the same spot. I'm starting to worry and am wondering if anyone thinks ISO is in order? If he's trying to molt (and I can't see him at all, just shell so I have no clue what his intentions are) I need to get him somewhere he can do it and not get eaten! What do you guys think?


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Re: What are your crabs up to?

Post by Ryry » Mon Nov 17, 2014 11:52 am

My crabs half bury a lot- actually it's only like two or three that do it, and they don't do it as much now that I have all my new hides. They used to bury in the sub and you could just see the top of their shell. Honestly I figured it was them destressing. Once I put the log in there they all decided that was the cool new place to sleep. Though sometimes they pig pile in the back next to the heater
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Re: What are your crabs up to?

Post by moonbeam » Mon Nov 17, 2014 12:02 pm

Maybe he is just destressing. But it's stressing me out while he does it lol. I'm gonna give him some time to do his thing unless someone tries to dig him up. I haven't smelled anything so for now I wait


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Re: What are your crabs up to?

Post by hermitcrabdc » Mon Nov 17, 2014 3:28 pm

CHLOE CAME UP YESTERDAY!! It's so nice to have everyone up again! I don't now if he (Yes, it's a he :( ) molted or not, it seems like he wasn't down as long as he usually is for molts but he's up and I'm really excited! Tags also came up yesterday! It's weird they all seemed to perk up I don't know why though I would've thought that the colder weather would have made them kinda just slow down.
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Re: What are your crabs up to?

Post by moonbeam » Mon Nov 17, 2014 7:04 pm

Aww there are several crabs out there with different gender names :) there's a whole thread about it lol. Congrats on the crabs coming up!


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Re: What are your crabs up to?

Post by megmaholm » Mon Nov 17, 2014 10:15 pm

I once again only have 2 crabs up. I know a couple come up late at night, but for the most part my tank is dead quiet. I put out peanut butter and honey last night and no one touched it. They destroyed the popcorn and other stuff though. Darn crabs.
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Re: What are your crabs up to?

Post by tykesanimalkingdom » Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:19 am

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Just a funny picture we took of our cabs last night. Thought I'd share!
Magic is in the food bowl, Toast and Bubbles are hanging by the ledge, and Squishy is in the fresh water dish below. They were being so active! :)

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Re: What are your crabs up to?

Post by Crabinski » Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:42 pm

I just love that little Toast and his choice of shell!
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