Updates - new crabbies and all!
The move went fine, though the crabs were a little on the hot side during the ride since we didn't know when we were packing that the car I drove up doesn't have AC, but they managed OK.
They did stay in the Kritter Keeper type tanks a lot longer than we expected. It took us quite awhile to dig out the boxes with the hermit crab stuff in them and clear a space for the tank! Last night we moved them in there, but since I didn't have enough coconut fiber substrate (had to hit petco), we didn't put anything but crabs, water and food dishes in until today.
While we were at Petco just looking around a few days ago, we saw a couple of strawberries (1 large, 1 a smaller jumbo), and tonight after we arranged the tank we went back for them. Mike has wanted a jumbo straw for awhile now, so it was perfect to see them now. He's named the jumbo Igor. The other one we haven't named yet.
In other news, not long after we put the new crabs in the tank, Zilla changed shells. Into a HUGE shell, even for her. Silly crabby. While I think this is the first we've had that shell in the tank (because it's huge and very heavy), I'm wondering how much of the change has to do with proving she's still the biggest crab in the tank!
They did stay in the Kritter Keeper type tanks a lot longer than we expected. It took us quite awhile to dig out the boxes with the hermit crab stuff in them and clear a space for the tank! Last night we moved them in there, but since I didn't have enough coconut fiber substrate (had to hit petco), we didn't put anything but crabs, water and food dishes in until today.
While we were at Petco just looking around a few days ago, we saw a couple of strawberries (1 large, 1 a smaller jumbo), and tonight after we arranged the tank we went back for them. Mike has wanted a jumbo straw for awhile now, so it was perfect to see them now. He's named the jumbo Igor. The other one we haven't named yet.
In other news, not long after we put the new crabs in the tank, Zilla changed shells. Into a HUGE shell, even for her. Silly crabby. While I think this is the first we've had that shell in the tank (because it's huge and very heavy), I'm wondering how much of the change has to do with proving she's still the biggest crab in the tank!
