What are your crabs up to?

kate.e.m. · Post by **kate.e.m.** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:58 pm

I FINALLY HEARD ONE OF MY CRABS CHIRP!!! i'm so jazzed! nebechadnezzer was noshing on peanut butter, apple sauce, kale, and calcium. he just came up from a molt on saturday. he took a walk through the salt water, climbed a log, and then let a loud chirp! it was so cool! i've had my herd of three since december and this is the first time i've heard the elusive chirp!!!

moonbeam · Post by **moonbeam** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 10:36 pm

kate.e.m. wrote:I FINALLY HEARD ONE OF MY CRABS CHIRP!!! i'm so jazzed! nebechadnezzer was noshing on peanut butter, apple sauce, kale, and calcium. he just came up from a molt on saturday. he took a walk through the salt water, climbed a log, and then let a loud chirp! it was so cool! i've had my herd of three since december and this is the first time i've heard the elusive chirp!!!

Congrats on the chirping! I've had my crew since June and have never heard a single chirp. Lots of clanking, no chirping.

I took a break from studying and found a newly molted Wilson! He's still almost white in some areas but he's darkening up. He's come a long ways since I adopted him.

January

Now, with Lil mama hiding in the background lol

And just bc she's so pretty.

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moonbeam · Post by **moonbeam** » Wed Apr 08, 2015 9:38 pm

Ok! I've been gone for a while and I only have a week to catch up on crabs before the madness begins again! Fill me in! How are your crabs???

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StarWarsHermitCrab · Post by **StarWarsHermitCrab** » Wed Apr 08, 2015 10:21 pm

Well my hermit crab Violet murdered my hermit crab Shelby.

That makes me sad, Shelby is my favorite hermit crab, and now she's dead.

kornchaser · Post by **kornchaser** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 5:37 am

StarWarsHermitCrab wrote:Well my hermit crab Violet murdered my hermit crab Shelby.
That makes me sad, Shelby is my favorite hermit crab, and now she's dead.

I hope your coping okay... I've lost my favorite, an original named Octavius. It's hard to see old videos and pictures, we all know. Sadly the learning curve has no angle and the journey gets bumpy but that's all a part of crabbing, all for the betterment of our LHC friends in the end, hopefully.
If I remember right, you were having E problems right? If so was Violet one of them or were they already re-homed? Sorry if I'm way off about that though.

Mommy of 10 PP babies:
Poseidon (Sid), Toby, Matty, Junior, Aries, Kaylee, Turbo, Adrian, Pepper and Flower. RIP Octavius & Fred

StarWarsHermitCrab · Post by **StarWarsHermitCrab** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 11:26 am

Violet is a PP, Shelby was a E. You can see my profile picture of Shelby, she was
so cute.

I think Violet is upset about killing Shelby.
I've been hand feeding Violet because she has refused to do anything since she
killed Shelby.

megmaholm · Post by **megmaholm** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 11:44 am

moonbeam wrote:Ok! I've been gone for a while and I only have a week to catch up on crabs before the madness begins again! Fill me in! How are your crabs???

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I miss you!! Lol.

My crabs are boring...nothing new to report. I keep fiddling with the layout of my new 40 gallon, and I think the guys in the 55 are getting jealous.

I ordered 2 medium cork rounds from Petco and they sent 2 enormous long ones instead. I don't even know what to do with the 2nd one after cramming one in the 40.

moonbeam · Post by **moonbeam** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 12:56 pm

StarWarsHermitCrab wrote:Well my hermit crab Violet murdered my hermit crab Shelby.
That makes me sad, Shelby is my favorite hermit crab, and now she's dead.

I'm so sorry to hear about your loss! Losing our pets is always hard. No one can replace your favorite crab but I hope your others are bringing you some comfort.

moonbeam · Post by **moonbeam** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 1:07 pm

megmaholm wrote:
I miss you!! Lol.

My crabs are boring...nothing new to report. I keep fiddling with the layout of my new 40 gallon, and I think the guys in the 55 are getting jealous. I ordered 2 medium cork rounds from Petco and they sent 2 enormous long ones instead. I don't even know what to do with the 2nd one after cramming one in the 40.

Ahh I miss you too! I've been missing so much lately. But I think my crabs are really enjoying their break from me because they only see me during food/water changes here lately. When I do manage to sneak up on them they're all like "OH CRAP SHE'S BACK! RUN! HIDE!" It's pretty hilarious lol.

I'd say I'm surprised to hear you got another tank, but lets be real. One tank just isn't enough for crab enthusiast like you

and of course the best kind of problem to have is having too many decorations to fit in a tank! I bet your crabs are loving new décor to climb all over!

So hopefully I'll be adding my rolly pollies to my tank here in the next few days. I've been waiting for this week for a while so that I could watch all of the action! I will definitely be posting about it and hopefully some pictures if I can catch them in the big tank. I've been raising these pods for over 4 months so I've got a thriving colony ready for new adventures! Excitement is an understatement right now!!

StarWarsHermitCrab · Post by **StarWarsHermitCrab** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 1:37 pm

I need to start a colony of pill bugs,
But I don't know how to.

moonbeam · Post by **moonbeam** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 2:36 pm

I went out in my backyard and looked under rocks, logs, and stones. It took a few weeks for me to find them but once I did I found so many of them! Have you seen the care sheet on them?

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StarWarsHermitCrab · Post by **StarWarsHermitCrab** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 4:31 pm

I've seen the care sheet for pill bugs now.

I also looked on YouTube, and found some helpful
videos for starting a colony of them.

moonbeam · Post by **moonbeam** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:56 pm

I'll link some pod threads I've found/been apart of. Maybe they can help you get something started.

viewtopic.php?t=93604#p860964
viewtopic.php?t=93988#p863935
viewtopic.php?t=103247#p946402
viewtopic.php?t=101971#p935435

KellyCrabbieLove · Post by **KellyCrabbieLove** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 8:22 pm

My mom saw 2 crabs that were in desperate need of good care and brought them to me. the big guy took offense to me trying to get a picture of him in my palm when he changed out of his painted shell.

Ow!

He's too cute to be angry with though.

He changed 5 times that I know of while in the KK with shells and food. I wanted him out of the painted shell and comfy in a new one before putting him in the big tank. He went in right before I took my kids upstairs for the night. I look forward to peeking at him later. The smaller guy is in the big tank too but he didn't change before I put him in. He seemed stressed so I put him in before a change.

shanedaman112 · Post by **shanedaman112** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 8:33 pm

you're right, crabs are the only things that can be so cute. I take that back, these guys have the exception

HCA: Hermit Crab Association

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