What are your crabs up to?

Freckles24 · Post by **Freckles24** » Mon May 29, 2017 10:18 am

Atlas likes to 'chill' Maybe it's because he's the biggest out of my 4 but he's always 'hanging out' somewhere

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ErikRasmussen · Post by **ErikRasmussen** » Mon May 29, 2017 11:18 am

I have some funny/cute pics of them Dorking around.
Stitch actually fell asleep with her but in a bigger shell. She was like that for four hours.

Thing one didn't understand how a coconut could be suspended like that

These two fell asleep like a yin yang

And these two have been getting along oddly well lately.

....and yes he was sleeping like this for at least 4 hours

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Lephantome92 · Post by **Lephantome92** » Tue May 30, 2017 7:51 pm

So last night one of my crabs, Bro, came up from potentially molting. He had switched shells just before going under, so I left the old shell in the tank. At any rate, he decided he wanted to go back into his old shell, but Leif was in the way. Bro straight out shoved Leif, and I swear if crabs could talk, he would've said "MOVE!" more than a little assertively. He's not usually aggressive, so probably just really wanted his shell

In other habits, at least two of them, Lief and Dwebble, go crazy over carrots. I can chop up two carrot chips and leave them there overnight, and they'll be gone

Freckles24 · Post by **Freckles24** » Tue May 30, 2017 11:41 pm

I put New Mexican turbos in the tank (look through my posts they were 0.42 a piece!) ten minutes ago and as of now Atlas fits in a shell! I wish I had a picture of him curled up in the other shell his BP and 2 legs hung out. The turbo is better to say the least. Also I have really big hands and the turbo shell opening is a little bigger than 1" and the over all is like 2.25" Just saying for reference because he looks small but I swear he's giant (to me)

And just because here's a picture of Aston who is the size of a nickel or in my case my thumb so Atlas in comparison is Godzilla.

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Giner13 · Post by **Giner13** » Wed May 31, 2017 6:22 am

Yay Atlas in a shell!

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SonnyRayTWH · Post by **SonnyRayTWH** » Wed May 31, 2017 6:28 am

R2 (named after R2D2) i thought was going down to molt, but later he decided that he was going to make a giant chasm and come out of the ground.

Sunny (the upside down one) and Pebble.

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he-man · Post by **he-man** » Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:17 pm

@SonnyRayTWH
Adorable!

SonnyRayTWH · Post by **SonnyRayTWH** » Sun Jun 04, 2017 5:02 pm

Thanks!
Here's a pic of "one of the 2 in almost the same shell"

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Giner13 · Post by **Giner13** » Sun Jun 04, 2017 9:42 pm

So I knew I had seen signs of him using it, but FINALLY caught him in the act!!! Plus at least the 9th shell change...

Wish I could post the video of him walking!! Apparently this wheel has grooves for him to use!

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he-man · Post by **he-man** » Mon Jun 05, 2017 4:50 pm

@Giner13
I love the pearly shell! I have a hamster wheel too, and all of the crabs love it!

Giner13 · Post by **Giner13** » Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:13 pm

Honeycloud6744 wrote:@Giner13
I love the pearly shell! I have a hamster wheel too, and all of the crabs love it!

I do too! I was surprised he picked that one!

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SonnyRayTWH · Post by **SonnyRayTWH** » Mon Jun 05, 2017 9:06 pm

When you try to take a good pic of your hermit crab but it ends up pinching you after you take the pic.

And this is also the buggar that latches to the lip of the tank and the lid so that I can't open it. -_-

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Giner13 · Post by **Giner13** » Mon Jun 05, 2017 9:08 pm

Oh my!!!

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SonnyRayTWH · Post by **SonnyRayTWH** » Mon Jun 05, 2017 9:13 pm

I'm glad she didn't pinch me with her big claw. I think it was more of a "hey why am I being held" or a "hey I kind of want to eat your hand"

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Giner13 · Post by **Giner13** » Mon Jun 05, 2017 9:29 pm

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