Keep Switching To New Shell, Then Back to Old
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 1:29 am
My one crab is very strange. We got some new shells for him because he clearly wasn't interested in any of the ones that we had in there before. We also completely rebuilt their crabitat this past week.
So anyway...every other day or so for the last 10 days he has switched into the same new shell, then he travels around like a madman for one night in this new shell, before switching back to the old one the next day!!!
I'm not really concerned, but he's starting to LOOK like he's too big for the old shell, so I was hoping he'd just stick to one of the new shells and let that old one be done with.
In the meantime, the other crab (who spends most of her time under the sand) came up last night and in about five minutes swapped into one of the new shells and then instantly buried herself again. She came out and was all over the place during the day, but so far has stayed in her new shell.
Funny little critters, they are.
So anyway...every other day or so for the last 10 days he has switched into the same new shell, then he travels around like a madman for one night in this new shell, before switching back to the old one the next day!!!
I'm not really concerned, but he's starting to LOOK like he's too big for the old shell, so I was hoping he'd just stick to one of the new shells and let that old one be done with.
In the meantime, the other crab (who spends most of her time under the sand) came up last night and in about five minutes swapped into one of the new shells and then instantly buried herself again. She came out and was all over the place during the day, but so far has stayed in her new shell.
Funny little critters, they are.