HCA: Hermit Crab Association

I have been SO worried for my beloved Mammas skal - translated to English, his name means "mommy's shell" which I called him after the first shell he changed to, and it came from my boyfriends mom, so... Mammas skal/Mommy's shell. Please, don't tease him, haha.

Now he has molted again, and he FINALLY resurfaced today! He is so beautiful; dark purple with lighter leg tips, and ridiculously (in a very good way!) long antennas.

Very purple BP:






His ANTENNAS!






Remember to press the magnifying glass to see the the pictures in a bigger size!

Ooooh! He's beautiful! I love his coloring & the long antennae. Congrats!

CrabbyIrene wrote:Ooooh! He's beautiful! I love his coloring & the long antennae. Congrats!

Thank you! He's my favourite indo, so I'm deeply worried every time he molts. Every time he disappears it feels like forever before he resurfaces, and every time he molts, I'm convinced he will die. I am sooo relieved.

Oh, he is so beautiful!!!!!! Those antennae are amazing! How long have you been his human?

zippity wrote:Oh, he is so beautiful!!!!!! Those antennae are amazing! How long have you been his human?

Thanks!!
He and a couple of friends of him moved in to our family on April 1, 2010, so this is his fourth molt with me if I'm not wrong. The second one this year.

Stunning creature - I am glad he did well with the molt.

kgbenson wrote:Stunning creature - I am glad he did well with the molt.

Thank you! Me too. ^^

He is gorgeous!

Can't say it any better then others .. beautiful!

tigermoon89 wrote:He is gorgeous!

psi wrote:Can't say it any better then others .. beautiful!

Thank you so much! *happy and proud mommy*

Just beautiful! Congrats on the molt

I'm still giggling over those antennae...what a gorgeous, healthy crab!

SoulLonely wrote:Just beautiful! Congrats on the molt

Thanks!

zippity wrote:I'm still giggling over those antennae...what a gorgeous, healthy crab!

Haha, yes, his antennae are amazing - they almost touched the camera! And everytime he pulls back in his shell, those antennae sticks out between his legs/claws - they are even visible in the first picture.
Thanks!

I knew he had gotten a lot bigger after this molt, but now I found pictures of him from his last molt - and look at the size difference!

As you saw, this is his BP now:


This was his BP march 16, 2011, after the molt he had before this one:


What a difference!

Crikey! Has he even gotten out of the food dish in the last five months?

One of my E's, Matilda, is growing that fast...she just finished a moult last month; since then she's first to arrive and last to leave at dinnertime!