HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Yippee! The second little recent adoptee, IDunno, came up overnight after 19 days underground and was wearing a sporty green turbo this morning instead of his vile 'red-with-yellow-and-green-frog-with-glued-on-google-eyes' shell . As soon as I saw him about 6" away from that nasty shell, I opened the tank lid to grab it. He heard the sound of the flap opening and made a mad dash to hide behind the grapewood branch. Unlike his bolder rescued brother, PakyRaku, IDunno is quite skittish in the open but nonetheless found the shell shop in record time to see if there was an even better choice than the turbo he had (nope). No black toenails so he was probably just enjoying a bit of a destress.

Three guys up and two still down, all in green turbos. The two new little guys are both bright salmon-orange and are about same size but it's easy to distinguish between them as PakyRaku has a very small BP, grown from a gel limb in his last molt. Felix is pale pink and readily identifiable but Harry and Big Enzo might give me trouble as they're the same color, especially if Harry is molting and comes up about Big Enzo's size. So nice to have three crabs up and not a painted shell in sight !

Woot!

Yay! I recently got rid of my last painted shell- and it seemed like FOREVER. That little guy was determined to keep that thing out of spite I swear! But no more for me either!

YAY for both of your painted shells free tanks!.... That was a mouthful even in my head haha! But seriously yay!!


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Oh cool! We've got one holdout even though there are about 20 shells for him to pick from.

My adoptee won't ditch his panda.... I put in 7 shells all similarly sized both type openings. He checked them all out but didn't change. Now he's subterranean. I'm going to rotate offerings in a few days if he doesn't change.