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by moonbeam » Thu Jun 11, 2015 2:38 pm
For the first time over the last year, I found two visible caves!
This was a few days ago. I was pretty excited but I figured neither would stay long due to the amount of light going through the glass. Boy was I wrong! I came home last night to this little guy freshly molted. The picture is a tad dark but you can clearly see the claw of the crab in the shell behind the exo.
I went ahead and covered both caves with paper stickies to reduce the amount of light coming through. I can't see enough into the other cave to tell whether or not that crab is molting but I figure it's better to cover both caves just in case.
This was my first time seeing a molted crab in person(with the exception of my newest adoption in which a freshly molted crab was brought over without the exo). It was so interesting! My main concern now is to make sure I interfere as little as possible with these two caves so that they can complete healthy molts.
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Crabby crew of 17- Bob, Lil Mama, Squirt, Guppy, Deacon, Madison, Bash, Thumbelina, Wilson, George, Rosie, Hercules, Speedy, Jeff, Jerry, Keen, and Reddington :)
I think Merry's like Toad - I last handled him at least a week ago (I don't even remember when exactly) when I found him burrowed under the food bowl & pulled him out to measure his new shell opening. Aaaaand I haven't seen him since. :roll: I didn't realize I was THAT scary! At least Boromir doesn't seem to mind me as much, though he still runs for cover half of the time I disturb or surprise him. 
He's a sweetheart that gets pushed around by his practical little sister, though once he did just kinda shove her out of his way / climbed on top of her multiple times. They're a weird pair, but at least they seem playful with each other and know when it's bad to get too roudy -Not gonna let them try to get too rough, a dunk and time out corner is what they earn, and half the time they stay in that corner after I place them there -
