Supercrab's Crabalot

Here is Whitie, he just came up from his first successful molt with me.
I have been a crab mom for little over a month. I was worried because I read that molts in the first 60 days have a higher death rate. Now that Whitie is up eating and moving around the crabatat I have noticed that my assumtion that he was an E may be wrong. Now I think he is a Ruggie, but I am not sure. He is still very shy so I have not had a good look yet. The nice thing is he was missing a leg when he went down and now he is up with all his legs and 4 very sharp toes. Here are some pics of him stuffing his face this morning. I think he has a strange colour but who know what his diet was before I got him.

Some Pictures of my six new crabs that I got this past Wednesday.

I am really happy they had so many different colors. All the 5 E's seem to stick together. Violet (my PP from the mall) seemed a bit grumpy when Brownie wondered by. I think she actaully broke off one of Brownies toes when she swatted him away with her claw. Violet has been hanging out in the same hut with Luvie another PP and they seem very protective of their privacy. No E's allowed!!

Anyone viewing this, I would love confirmation that all first 5 are E's

Here is Blueberry ( who has since disappeared, maybe dug down?)


Then there is Chocolate Chip (who shell is way too small)


And here comes Brownie (the brave, now short one toe)


And Cutie ( who loves to watch everything from a distance)


And the smallest one Pickle (the one I could not leave behind)


Last but not least Violet (who I almost bought as an empty shell)
Not the best pic but he is camera shy.


Here Blueberry and Brownie in debate about their new home and the weather


Ruggles the Rug I bought Yesterday has also disappeared hummm lots of crabs down, I hope there are no underground traffic jams.

Well, I just got back from my quest to find two Ruggies!! Went to Petco and found one. At least I hope he's a Ruggie ( assuming he is a he). He is missing one or two last segments to his legs. I hope he survives the PPS (post purchase stress). I am looking for opinions as to his species.

I will continue my search until I can find him a mate of same species. While I have 20 other crabs, this will be the first Ruggie and I don't want him to be self conscious. Plus, who wants an odd number of crabs anyway. :-)

PS: I bathed him and put him in the food dish and he started stuffing his face instantly and when he caught site of a bigger crab, proceeded to leave the dish with a large stash of food in his claws. This is the first time that I have seen this. It was quite funny.

Just got 6 new hermies on Wednesday.

I picked 3 empty shells from the crab man's kiosk at the mall. They were in with the crabs. I inspected a couple more empty shells that he had. I picked out all the shells I wanted and switched them for my painted shells. I was just about to leave when the guy said "there's a crab in that shell" I looked in and waaaaayyyyy down in the shell was a purple pincher. I think he is in a shell that is too big for him. I took this as a sign of fate, and bought the little PP. (Violet) Just to think, I almost got him for free. Good thing I found him, since I always boil my new shells.

Well that put my hermit crab count to 15. Since I can't have an odd number of hermies, I headed off to a local pet store to pick up an E. I had both kids with me. Everyone wanted a different one. They were all so cute and I ended up taking home 3. (Blueberry, Chocolate Chip & Brownie)

There was this little one we left behind and all I could think of was how he was looking at me when I put him back. Well my conscience got the better of me and we headed back to the pet store to rescue him. (Pickle)

At the pet store my daughter insisted on getting a different one and I was set on rescuing the one I saw before. After a bit of debate and thinking if I rescued one, then I would have an odd number of crabs again, so we got both. (Pickle & Cutie)

6 crabs later (and only in a few hours) we have a total count of 20. Thank God they are all small to tiny.

I still want a Ruggie but am having difficulty finding (or identifying) one.

Here is a pick of Brownie hanging off the bamboo plant (which is REAL).

Here is a recent pic of climber

Current Census:
(Molts estimated from March to date, but then again they could have molted without me knowing)

Straws:
Clifford (large) Molted 2
Pepper (med) Molted 3
Tabasco (med) Molted 2
Robin (large) Molted 2

E's:
Crabbie (med) Molted 3
Whitie (med) Molted 2
T-Bone (small) Molted 1
Blueberry (small) Molted 2
Cutie (small) Molted 1
Pickle (small) Molted 2

PP's:
Lilac (med) Molted 1
Superman (small) Molted 1
Batman (small) Molted 2
Luvie (small) Molted 1
Butterfly (small) Molted 2
Violet (small) Molted 1
Iris (med) Molted 1
Pumpkin (small) Molted 1
Periwinkle (tiny) Molted 2
The Friendly Giant (Jumbo) Still waiting on first molt
Blossom (tiny) Molted 1

Ruggie:
Ruggles (small) Molted 2
Whitie (med) Molted 2
Buttercup (small) Molted 1
Buggie (Medium) Molted 2

Updated Dec 12th 2006

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