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Kermie16
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by Kermie16 » Mon Oct 16, 2017 7:11 am
Found Mini Pinch came up from his molt
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:)
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Giner13
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by Giner13 » Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:52 am
That is too cute!!
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Kermie16
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by Kermie16 » Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:54 am
Giner13 wrote:That is too cute!!
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thank you:)
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he-man
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by he-man » Tue Oct 17, 2017 8:39 pm
Kermie16 wrote:Found Mini Pinch came up from his molt
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
:)
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Congrats! How are your other hermies doing?
my mom takes care of my crabs now cause im planning college B)
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Kermie16
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by Kermie16 » Tue Oct 17, 2017 9:39 pm
Honeycloud6744 wrote:Kermie16 wrote:Found Mini Pinch came up from his molt
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
:)
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Congrats! How are your other hermies doing?
Thank you! Not sure about the other 2. Our largest, Clare, went down to molt about 3 months ago and our smallest, Kelp, initially came up without a big puncher but went back down about a month ago so hopefully he is down there growing a new pincher
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aprilmay
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by aprilmay » Thu Oct 19, 2017 12:57 am
About a week ago, watermelon finally figured out the hamster wheel! Often "walking" it an hour at a time, upside down! He is doing that right now!
![Image](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rHFA86OuJNen4kFTTMnxm8Px6IDKTc5v-lPF4MsB6rKtQWG3hr2CPRVAiHf-Rwf2DQrVWNKp_UNLCFTFMvfLisOV3pPndGzXkdzlQCFkUOCQT5sZhkMwPCIc4sZFzxPQFfegUrbzTEv7odCt036ky-xzY0y-XUgpGN9hP6qUg6olUpLdDqbD4Xb317R32IaHEPWIQGZpb0dDS1NNuodE_rXBG2W4w20GObeozo0sHLGo0eKrt56G57KqVJnx5gSJBDHDR6FWJVDdjb-Qo19ZTLNqwDfCEoYmLMzfROTvwW3DMz6A7H0dQhqqV5Ruodor60Nlpw7z5CuHPO5rUXMYJbNG3wbJznyoiNRvj6VEdI3l_1goMeEB6TMDLUT6qSmIgWPOEuDeJEUgFjf3d-y020S5TjUQh4PxZRhPcz7LkQbL8vIN_1AOqbwBzktdIAHSMDavjZhck6KSqZgMWgIEd-WtP4K1z00RhzAt88msnxwr9IuBgu1c6yNq-mOeK87rnAnrDIIaX3NtMg7px6IdeLIE00fITg3YisvQ-ZE1YpftfrXgjZWDWNmTrwvenr_DAWVtuEQ-dplbVmGvDAoJZERdhzCaoex3p-iW_hMsJVJyKTWM9G3rb_bPyU9SPCg1sSFnyjAu-LXj_s1TYaSiwhKBusankgbeUirK=w1015-h755-no)
half an hour ago, watermelon was walking the other direction.
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by GotButterflies » Thu Oct 19, 2017 9:15 am
aprilmay wrote:About a week ago, watermelon finally figured out the hamster wheel! Often "walking" it an hour at a time, upside down! He is doing that right now!
![Image](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rHFA86OuJNen4kFTTMnxm8Px6IDKTc5v-lPF4MsB6rKtQWG3hr2CPRVAiHf-Rwf2DQrVWNKp_UNLCFTFMvfLisOV3pPndGzXkdzlQCFkUOCQT5sZhkMwPCIc4sZFzxPQFfegUrbzTEv7odCt036ky-xzY0y-XUgpGN9hP6qUg6olUpLdDqbD4Xb317R32IaHEPWIQGZpb0dDS1NNuodE_rXBG2W4w20GObeozo0sHLGo0eKrt56G57KqVJnx5gSJBDHDR6FWJVDdjb-Qo19ZTLNqwDfCEoYmLMzfROTvwW3DMz6A7H0dQhqqV5Ruodor60Nlpw7z5CuHPO5rUXMYJbNG3wbJznyoiNRvj6VEdI3l_1goMeEB6TMDLUT6qSmIgWPOEuDeJEUgFjf3d-y020S5TjUQh4PxZRhPcz7LkQbL8vIN_1AOqbwBzktdIAHSMDavjZhck6KSqZgMWgIEd-WtP4K1z00RhzAt88msnxwr9IuBgu1c6yNq-mOeK87rnAnrDIIaX3NtMg7px6IdeLIE00fITg3YisvQ-ZE1YpftfrXgjZWDWNmTrwvenr_DAWVtuEQ-dplbVmGvDAoJZERdhzCaoex3p-iW_hMsJVJyKTWM9G3rb_bPyU9SPCg1sSFnyjAu-LXj_s1TYaSiwhKBusankgbeUirK=w1015-h755-no)
half an hour ago, watermelon was walking the other direction.
![Image](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sJlWylCVSxgbbd71Kl03-gvLrsrtjsylygh0qncKUyFNCMl5anEp0ckPii0LL-_c4Ztgbr7LuvZbmPEVd699yC_nFzhCMhqvDssr5iqNQRaLoRP6BpTda4N0yr5jr7veN6VkHU4zErHOiQ5l4Lg07xTdDcucfPvn3evP2tIfd9MtV-5nEHWzhHIiaOTNgOAxtXvtl-hNo70i1Zuu43p_RennU9S8C8G4qaCMWJjnZOvilaF9CtqsVKR7F9iNe9J39AZWFlIwOa1UewTZglSMp74O4GqRNy08mvvp8p9cy11bnuhGxzFCL85rsUUpW9Pm6DQshyIxWUJt56zQVQPxBByYB1gZzHyGuFYGX8FBE-ouJ8Y0C8iIAIqmzt-eQv0HrgdNEFzqZkht5lr0YkzL4kTmhVqpNwrdul0zOEgOb3sSBKN_DlycPi6ohlT6KMugInxAydAEJ71EtSIW5mBCzTO3h911i3fAFarwySFNkqvS7xXQBV9Z8W0OyeBskRA7GEFKFykDtZ8yCOWw88irp0iLBKd26Ed75VDdZOaMW6gOLqRng65qe6YAN0hcyzh3yzD1tEmh-AbqyI4e5fVePN-C7zPLq9S4jErvyzmcnuWSvJqUQLoCyiQ21yu5VBWqeSzqf3mM1BIp63YI4fOn4zPtaRkEM4K36Cg=w1080-h608-no)
Hilarious!!
![Hysterical Laughing :hlol:](./images/smilies/13.gif)
Silly crab!!
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AndyCrabby
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by AndyCrabby » Thu Oct 19, 2017 9:46 am
Kermie16 wrote:Found Mini Pinch came up from his molt
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
:)
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Daww he's so cute
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aprilmay
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by aprilmay » Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:39 am
GotButterflies wrote:
Hilarious!!
![Hysterical Laughing :hlol:](./images/smilies/13.gif)
Silly crab!!
I know! Right? i'm just glad the wheel are getting good use finally! Watermelon occasionally does walk inside of the wheel the normal way. but maybe because he is so small, the wheel often stays still until he climbs to the highest point then it would do this really fast roller coster spin to drop him back down. initially he would climb from the outside of the wheel all the way to the top and then just got spin off to the pool or the sand when the wheel does the roller coster spin.
now he finally figured out this up-side-down climb that gives him more control and smaller motion. i've seen him sometimes wedged his shell between the pool and the spare shell and just lying there and spin the wheel like an acrobat. funny!
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Kermie16
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by Kermie16 » Thu Oct 19, 2017 5:17 pm
AndyCrabby wrote:Kermie16 wrote:Found Mini Pinch came up from his molt
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
:)
![Image](//uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171016/863008989eea579ebe3ff4c993ffdfab.jpg)
Yay for no more petsand! Lol!
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Daww he's so cute
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thank you! ^_^
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by Happyhermiehome » Fri Oct 20, 2017 6:53 am
lol I have a crab that does this too. Sometimes he somehow manages to make it on top of the wheel for a few triumphant seconds defore being flung off
![Hysterical Laughing :hlol:](./images/smilies/13.gif)
Livin' the Crazy crab life :P
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aprilmay
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by aprilmay » Fri Oct 20, 2017 9:11 am
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by broke669 » Fri Oct 20, 2017 10:19 pm
so today i cleaned the walls of the tat, just so i can see into it without lifting up the lid all the time. and now my pp seems intent on mucking them all up again. leaving sandy dirty leg and claw marks all over the glass, all the while making a lovely (irritating!) scratching noise, not unlike nails on a chalkboard. gotta luv it! lol
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he-man
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by he-man » Sun Oct 22, 2017 11:59 am
broke669 wrote:so today i cleaned the walls of the tat, just so i can see into it without lifting up the lid all the time. and now my pp seems intent on mucking them all up again. leaving sandy dirty leg and claw marks all over the glass, all the while making a lovely (irritating!) scratching noise, not unlike nails on a chalkboard. gotta luv it! lol
Hahaha! Sometimes crabs just want to mess up the tat. Mine have always have their sand a quicksand consistency!
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aprilmay
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by aprilmay » Sun Oct 22, 2017 12:10 pm
mid last week i noticed water level of both my pools dropped by an inch! i was puzzled! how did the evaporation turned so rapid? it hasn't been that warm lately either. Both my pools are square glass jars so leaking is unlikely.
when i took the pools out for water change yesterday i noticed there were like ~1.5" of water sitting in the outside container of the pools! thank goodness i had the nested setup! otherwise it would have totally flooded my sub! As i was cleaning up the water from the outside container, i tried to figure out how the water got in there from the pools. The only conclusion i could come up with was watermelon had fallen into both pools multiple times from either the wheel or vines/nets above the pools, so the water was splashed into the outside container. now i have to wonder whether he was doing those jumps on purpose... i have to keep a closer look this week!