It's a miracle!

Little brown guy, one of our equadorian crabs, died a few months ago. Or so we thought.

Then, recently a few times we thought we'd glimpsed an "extra" equadorian crab. We figured one of the others was shell swapping.

Today, we're getting ready to move - and when we got our crabs all organized and in travel carriers today, we found that we did indeed have an extra equadorian! The only way that is possible is if our little brown guy had just molted, not died, and been so far back in a shell that we didn't see him.

THANK GOODNESS WE DIDN'T BOIL THE SHELLS!