There a story behind me going down to the pet store, skip it as it isn't that relevant to this post, but it's a fun little story. So I just got my shells yesterday, I boiled them and put them in the tank. 3 of them are nerite shells that are about the same size as the nerite shells they're currently in. I got them because their current shells are a little scratched and chipped and thought they they might like some new shells. I then got 2 babylonia shells which are a little bigger just in case they wanted to move into bigger shells. I couldn't find bigger nerite shells and I wasn't so sure at the time about whale eye shells and thus I didn't buy them. So I go to bed last night and wake up this morning to a wonderful surprise that one of my crabs (Sparkle) has moved into a babylonia shell
This was all very exciting to me because these are my first crabs (well, the first crabs that I'm actually taking care of properly). I also notice that my other crab (Fritz) is still outside, just chilling. This I found quite strange because when I normally wake up, they're in the shelter and don't normally come out until about 7pm. So I kept a close eye and looked over every half an hour and Fritz is still outside. He hasn't moved all this time and he appears to be a sleep. I'm then a little curious about what Sparkle looks like in her new shell. I lift up the shelter and find Sparkle in her new shell and her old shell in the shelter there right beside her. I come to the conclusion afterwards that there wasn't enough room in the shelter for both the crabs and because Sparkle was there first, Fritz was forced to stay outside. I decided that I needed to go down to the pet store and buy another shelter so that they both have room.I walk down to the pet store, find a coco-hut/hermie-hut and I also looked at the price of something down the back, the vine wall. I had talked about the vine wall before and you guys wanted pictures, so here they are. But the other thing was that I was 50c short, but the man at the desk (Liam) and I are pretty much best friends and he gave me 50c, such a bro. Every time I go down there, which is like 3 times a week, I see him and we always have a chat about my hermit crabs. So now I have another place for shelter and Fritz is in the resting and I also have something else for them to climb on.
The hermie-hut:
The vine wall front:
The vine wall back:
Thanks,
Hamilation
p.s. Just a quick question, should I take Sparkle's old shell away from her, clean it then put it back in the tank? Or is she still hanging on to it because she might want to move back in to it?
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