!!! Happpy!!!!

Okay, this is AWESOME!!!!! It is THE COOLEST THINGIE EVA! Whoever made it has a really good mind. Oh, to see it click the boom box! Oh, if the link doesn't work, click here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5503582578132361295&q=animusic


All the crabs are good. Although I am getting worried. Yesterday I was moving a cocohut and Peanut was behind it. So I pick him up to move him out of the way and PLOP! He's exo was hanging out! So I placed him in the spare 10 gallon. Then I moved him to the main tank, then moved him to the second level of the main tank and removed the ladder (so the other crabs cran't get to him). I am scared becasue he hasn't moved at all. I know he's in there because i saw his claw, but I haven't seen him peek out at all. I know I probably stressed him out a lot since I moved him so much, and I feel bad...I hope he makes it! He is so cute.

OMGOSHNESS! I just checked on him and he is eating his exo! He's still in his shell, but exo was in his big pincher, and I felt him move. So I will leave him a long now, now that I know he is okay. YAY! I am so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A little Sad, but i got PICS!

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I am kind of sad because yesterday I was trying to make my template be a picture of my crab, it worked, sorda. But I didn't like it. So now I lost ALL of my edits: links, chatbox and all the links IN my chat box. :( Oh well.

I got pictures of Gumbo/Pancho!!!!!! They're not so great because I was in a hurry, but here they are:












Okay, not the greatest pics, but like I said, I was in a hurry. I wil get better pictures when he comes up from molting/de-stressing.

Last night he was at the food dish for EVER! I saw him eating, like taking BIG spoon fulls of food with his mini claw! I feel good knowing SOME ONE likes my food!! It was bananna, carrots, almonds, egg shells...that's all I can rememebr. There was probably more in there, but whatever.

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New Hermie News!

I was so happy this morning! I woke up and looked over at my hermit crab tank. I saw Qwerty over at the shell cubby and see a weird looking shell. It was PANCHO'S/GUMBO'S SHELL (I am not sure of names yet...)!!! I was like, what? Because I know I saw movement in the cocohut that P/G was in...So I lift up the coconut shell and their P/G is!! He was in the the big whale eye shell!!!!! It fit perfectly!! And it looked good on him too. I am sorry I have no pictures, I didn't want to disturb him any more than what I had. I left him in peace.
I took out the old painted shell, since Qwerty was starting to check it out and make me nervous. But I am SO HAPPY!

Hmmm, what do you like better as a name: Pancho or Gumbo? Maybe I will just call him P/G! That's kinda catchy...! (Like, PG as in the movie rating, not saying "P slash G", lol, just spelling it that way)

I am serious, I think Qwerty is really bored. He's just loafing around the tank trying to have fun. He keeps going in this same spot on the wood peice just sits there looking at me saying "This is a drag." :( I bought P/G as a friend for him and now P/G is molting too. Poor Qwerty. I better fo play with him and cheer him up.

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YAY!!! I got the new crab!!!! He's almost like a JUMBO.

For now his name is Gumbo! lol. He is in a painted shell, :( I hope he changes soon!








Here he is like, "Okay, I am going over here now!"





"I am telling you, I AM LEAVING! Okay, Got that?"







"Okay, I told you, you did listen, I AM GONE!"

HEHE.

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i can't wait!

YAY! I can't wait! Tomorrow I will be getting at least one new crab. I am hoping to get 2 more, actually (one for Hollywood and one for Peanut). I was over at Petland today and all they had were Ruggies, which, I don't want because of our weather where I live is so "up-and-downish".

Tomorrow I will go to Petsmart, they have all PPs, small and large, they have pretty good conditions, although their humdity is low, 40%. Still, they try. So I will be going there soon! I can't wait! I want them NOW, lol.
I will have to get pictures, we put in new batteries for the camera so it's already to go.

The bonding "classes" with Qwerty is really working! I have had him out about4 times today, and he is getting use to me. He likes climbing up my arm which makes me nervous that he'll fall. And he did, but I was sitting down on the floor so he didn't really even seem to care. Now he walks right onto my hand.
OOoOO! This is a funny story. Okay, I had Qwerty out and he was on the flor and I layed my hand down in front of him. He turned around and moved his eye stalks so they were looking at my hand and started walking that way. So then he got to my hand, put 2 legs on them truned around and left me! I was dissed by my own crab! lol! It was really funny.

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Hermit Crab Bonding!

I am trying to get my crabs use to being held agian. They use to just walk onto my hand and I could carry them practically anywhere. Now they don't even walk onto my hands. I am a little sad about that, so now I have set a schedule. I am going to take them out (at keast) every evening at 6:00 and have some "getting-picked-up-practice" lol!!!

This morning I was happy and sad at the same time. I looked at the tank and all my crabs but Qwerty were dug down. Now I will have to just have play time with Qwerty. But this gives me a chance to buy another crab with a good excuse "Qwerty is all alone and needs a friend." Not only is it s good excuse, but is also very true!! Hermeis are highky social (who ever named the HERMIT crab was so way off).
Poor Qwerty was just sitting in the middle of the tank...alone. :(

I NEED pictures!! Okay, okay, I will take some of the newly arranged crabby tank.
BEFORE:
















AFTER
And here is part of the tank, its hard to tell whats what because Hollywood dug there in the Cocohut, lol. But what it is, is 2 cocohuts beside each other with wood leaning on them.








Anyways, while I was cleaning up, I saw Peanut! He must not have stayed under. But he is cute. I haven't seen his face since the week I brought him home. I never comes out which almost makes me wish I had bought another crab...but I couldn't. At Meijer (the place I bought him ) he was the first crab I saw and I said "i have to get him, he's so cute. I can't just leave him!" Even though there was like, 8 other crabs AT LEAST to choose from. But anyways, I am stuck with him! He's cute, but very shy. Good thing I have made a bonding schedule, he will HAVE to take place in it!! Poor crab.

Well, I better go! See ya! (gosh it feels like I should be doing homework or something, but nothing was assigned because of the play...)
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Hi!!! I am saying hi!!

Hi!

I have to go in like, 5 minutes!!! I need to go to bed. Anyways, I added the big peice of wood to my tank and took out the big rock and replaced it with another cocohut.




So true...lol!

Feeding crabs: coconut, tulips, grapes, carrots (oh shoot, i forgot to add the egg shells!!)

My temp. has been higher than usual lately! YAY! It's a 78 F! :) I am happy. Well, g2g take a shower then go watch a show then go to bed (oh, and feed the crabs).

BYE!
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Members at HCA were...

Members at Hermit Crab Association were getting a little out of hand about My Space.com, lol, in a good, funny way!


Picture made by:
Lakota Robinson



As you can see, the wonderful crab model we hired to model our wonderful picket sign, is mad at My Space.com for no particalar reason. ;) *wink*


Nothing much to say. I am feeding my crabs mango, carrots and hopefully more tulips!
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Trash Pets Petition

I got this from a friend off of HCA.(the email address is my friend's) Please read:

Did you know that 66 million animals die every year because they are not cared for correctly? Did you know that that's 6 times more than all the people who died in the Holocaust? Regular people like you or sombody you know are buying small animals every day without knowing how to properly care for them. Pet stores tell owners that their animal will live under the wrong conditions for a short amount of time, when the animal people are actually buying should live for about 15 years, depending on the animal. Almost every person has bought a pet like this at one time or another in their life. When animals are sold this way they are called "trash" pets. Most "trash" pets die before the age of 3 and die a slow and pain full death. Even when people try to do research for caring for their new pet correctly they find miss leading books and websites that say their animal will live for 20 years under horrible conditions. Ever since about the 50's people have been buying pets in this fashion of impulse sales. The sales of "trash" pets fool people because they have such a small price tag when buying the animal itself, but when you add up all the costs that you "should" be spending on this living creature they can well be over $100. People don't relies that such small critters can cost so much. To get a full feel for the "trash" pet trade just go to this site, geocities.com/nottrashpets. If you want to stop the mass killing of animals please sign this petition. When you sign please put your full name and email address. What it means to sign is that you understand what a trash pet is and will not take part in keeping an animal this way from this day forth. You will spread the word of "trash" pets to help it become a household word. Lastly when you sign this petition you are saying you will not buy and products that endorse the keeping of any animal poorly so that it has a shortened life. If you get this email and it will have your signature as 300 please email it back to me, (blaze88@gmail.com) but don't stop there. If you receive this email with more than 300 signatures keep sending it on and email me again if you see 500 signatures. Again, don't stop at 500 but email me again wneh your signature is the 700th and email be again when you are at 1000.

1. Sara Elizabeth Ann Taylor (Blaze88@gmail.com)
2. Jillian B.

Please pass this email on. Do not just forward, copy and paste so more people will read this. Please do email it to me if there are 300 signatures. Nothing "bad" will happen to you if you don't pass this on like so many other emails, but think about all the lives you will be saving if you tell as many people as possible. Lastly think of all the 66 million animals you have let down if you do not pass this on. Thank you.

Today's Menue

Today I am feeding my crabs: dandelion, tulips, carrots, baby spinach, almonds; and for the side dish: eggs, turkey, brocholli buds. And to tie it all together, they all have some crushed eggs shells in them. Yum! Hope they like!

I was so excited when I saw that our tulips were dying off. I collected the petals from the ground that had fallen off already. Something new for the crabbies!

Little Red is still in his new turbo shell. He must like it, he along with Hollywood, were over at the shell cubby this morning.

Oh yes! I almost forgot, I added Qwerty to the main tank. He is doing good I think. I bathed him with the other crabs and everything went good. He went straught for the shell cubby and was climbing on the plants. Now I have no idea where he is! I decided to move him to the main tank becuase he was crawling all around in the ISO and was being very active, like he was looking for his crabby friends. :)

I rearranged the tank a little bit. I haven't taken any pictures yet! I added the second water dish to he tank. Now I have salt water and fresh water in there, yay!!! I also moved my big food dish under neath the big ramp, it fits perfectly! The crabs like it there, so now they feel safe when they eat.

I keep seeing Peanut on his back stretching way out to flip over. It's a little worrying, but I think he is okay. I turned his back over and now he is on his back again, but wasn't stretching out. I read that sometimes crabs go on their back to molt...still, it's weird to me. I hope he is okay.

I feel an urg to buy another crab! My dad wants to get Daisy (our puppy) a new collar. Over at the Complete Petmart they have some good ones he seemed to like. Maybe we will go over there. I want to go to SOME pet store! I got 10 dollars from my Aunt a few days ago and want to buy something. I am hoping to be lucky and find a cavipe or two, I really like them, they have such wonderful colors!

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Yes! At Last!

I woke up this morning and went over to the crab tank. There was a big pile of sand under the grapvine wood! Then I saw a Gold Mouth Tubo in there too! I was like "WOOO! A shell change!" II decided to take him out and inspect him....I know, I should have just left him alone, but I was still pondering the idea of ISOing him, Hollywood was walking around and he is known for digging up molters. He's done it at least 3 times.
Well, I took the crab out of it's cubby and saw who it was: Little Red! Of all crabs, the picky shell one changes shells!!!! I was like, wow! It was cool. I put him in the ISO, but he looked like he was about to go panic, so he's in the main tank now. Last time I saw him he was inspecting a way too small shell in the shell cubby. I'll get pics soon.

Qwerty is getting darker by the day, and his exo is almost all the way eaten. I can't wait until I can add him to the 20 gal!! He hasn't been in it yet. Maybe he will change shells, he hasn't seen any of the new shells either.

The tank humdity is currentlu at 70% and the temperature is at 68 degrees F! That's way low! It'll heat up in an hour at the most. The sun is coming up and it feels warmer. It was freezing last night! My parents had their windows open!
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Finally!!

Hi! I am sorry for all the shortish posts! I just haven't had the time, or wasn't in the mood for typing something long. Anyways, there's been a lot of stuff happening!

As I told you, I bought a bunch of new shells! Still no changes, but I saw Little Red and Hollywood snooping around at the shell cubby last night. And just now I saw a whole bunch of shells just scattered out of the cubby. They must have been trying them on or getting them out of their way; lol, it's funny to think about a crab moving a shell out of its way!!!
Peanut hasn't switched yet either. I was hoping he would, the shell he has now is too big. Maybe he likes it? I guess if he liked it, them he doesn't have to change.

Qwerty is, like I said, up from molting. he has been up for around a week. He is deffinatally getting darker, a good sign his exo is growing back! Yay!

None of the crabbies have been spotted in the second level for a while! Hollywood was on the ramp in the cocohut. I don't know where Little Red is, or Peanut! But I do know all my crabs (besides Qwerty) are about to molt! Hollywood is digging, Little Red is digging and so is Peanut!!! The tank was dug up the last time I checked (about 10 minutes ago). I guess there's really no need for ISOing right now since they are all about to molt.

I need pictures! I will have to take some more.

Here's my OLD tank!! See my crabbie socks? So wonderful, huh? lol! I love them.



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More shells!

I bought MORE shells! i know, I am on a shell frezie! I can't help it. I bought these bunch over at Michales, a craft store. I got at leat 5 good shells. Some are too small for my crabs, so really theres at least 9!! Most of them are virgin murex's, which the crabs and I like, bust I also got about 4 turbos. No changes in shells yet, all the crabbies still are wearing the same shells.

well, g2g! (PS- Qwerty is up from molting!) I will write later, kinda busy now.

The Shell Mission~Completed

Yes! I went to the farther ept store today (Jack's Aquarium and Pets) and bought 3 new shells for Peanut. They cost $5 all together (they were all in a bag). I was happy with my find!! The shells I got are: Virgin Murex, Babylon Spirata, and a Shark Eyes. So when Peanut comes up from molting, he will have a nice surprise!

In the tank, I added crabby soil to my second level. Hollyqood and Little Red have been up their already. I found Little Red in the new cocohut agian this morning.

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The Chat Box

Hi!

Well, I changed my mind about the chat box. I am going to use it for important hermie links and info sites. You can still post on it, and you can add your own favorite sites that RELATE TO HERMIT CRABS. Please, no bad comments. Thanks!


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Pictures!

I got some more pictures. I got some shots this morning of the second level and the new cocohut! To my surprise, Little Red was hiding out in the cocohut! lol! Here's some pictures:




Here's Little Red, it wouldn't focus on HIM, but the cocohut, lol! Oh well, you can still see him.

I don't know if Hollywood has found out about this cocohut, I have never seen huim in it, maybe he checked it out last night. =)







Okay, so here's some more of the fabolous Little Red. The stupid glass of the tank ruined this pic!

So there he is! He's probably muching on the moss. My crabbies seem to realy enjoy spanish moss! I think it looks cool.





So here to the left is the completed 2nd level. I am usuing a ruler covered in plastic gripping stuff wrapped in what I think is hemp.


I saw Hollywood climbing down the ramp last night. I've never seen Little Red climb up or down, but I have seen him up in the second level!


Yesterday was so nice and sunny! I had to take some pictures. Here's my best picture:

There's the lovely flower! They grow on our bushes out back (in our back yard, but the corner of my house, you can see!) I think it look pretty!

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I am saying hi!

HI!!!
Well, my b-day was yesterday! YEP! So I got lots of cool things I wanted. I will have to tell you about it this weekend, or tomorrow night when there's no school.

About my hermies: Well, Qwerty still is down! He rburried so I am think this time for sure he is actually shedding his exo. I was hoping he would come up on my b-day, but I guess he for got *wink*.
The second level is complete and so is the cocohut project! Picture's comeing soon!

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A Quick Hi

Okay, so I haven't exaclty finished my tank yet...BUT I will give you some pictures:



To the left is my wonderful new 20 gallon!!! It has 2 ramps, and a new second level, 2 cocohuts, lots of plants, I think 3 or 4 food dishes, 1 water bowl (working on the second for salt water).







Here's the right side of the tank (bad picture, sorry). See the tamp? It's pretty nice, it's made out of two plastic picture frame covered in sreening mesh.


The crabs loves it!

The food they had that day was (I think) dandelions, apple, egg shell, chicken, almonds, strawberries + the leaves, and some lettuce.



Here's the left side of the tank.
Cruddy picture I know, and it looks so crowded, lol! But really it's not.

I will redo the tank agian after Peanut comes up from his molt, he dug down right in the middle of the tank! gee.

Here's the wonderful second level. It's under construction becuase I need a ladder for the crabs to come OUT of it, lol! Dont' want them getting stuck:





I think this is the same second level as what Amie has, now that I look at her picture! It's a good deal, it works great too!



----Ahh, I can't wait until me and my dad start the cocohut prject this evening! I will have to post more pictures! I am sure you don't mind!

Aso, if you haven't seen it, I have a little chat board to the right of the screen. It's there for visitors to use. So type type type!

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I NEED An Update!

Hello---

I haven't updated in a while, Geez!!

I am so happy! The new 20 gallon is all set up, well, not "all", but mostly it is. I still have 2 areas in the tank that are under construction. I will post pictures as soon as I finish.

I bought a coconut today! I got this idea from HCA (Hermit Crab Association), from one of the members there: I (er---um...actually my dad) am going to drill a small hole in the coconut and let it drain out. Then, we are going to use a door knob saw thingie and cut in a door way. Notice i did NOT cut the coconut in half so it's just the whole coconut with a door! lol. Anyways, then the small hole that was dilled will be wear I put a suction cup hook through and hang it on the tank!

Yesterday we went to the thrift store. First I thought "UG, no way!" then: "Wait, junk=buy=make into treasures for hermies!". That's just what i did. I got 3 plastic picture frames, 2 alike that i glued together and made a ramp, so it looks like the pic to the left:
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/ \ And the other frame I just let it be, so it's a ramp and plat form. Since it look so steep and I KNOW the crabs wouldn't be able to climb up, I glued on some sreening mesh! It works great! They really seem to like it.

Today I was over at Wal*Mart, and I bought a shower suction shelf thing. It works great also. It is in the shape of like a triangle and fits the the corner of the tank, so now i have a good second level.

I WILL be getting pictures!!
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I am Back!

Hello! I am back now!


So sorry i haven't posted in like, forever. I will give you a long story later, I have school work to do right now. :( Ick!

Promise I will update this week!
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Happy Easter

Good Morning!

I woke up at 7:02 AM this morning. EASTER! I got a horse bag, candy, crabby socks (did I ever tell you I have a weird intrest in socks?), a cute shirt. All is good. Then we had a mini egg hunt. I got 2 dollars from that, yes! I need to go to Jack's Aquarium and Pets, they have bunches of shells. I want to buy some more, especially for Peanut.
~~Even going to Petland would be okay. THey have small shells selling for 99 cents.

I rearranged the crab tank this morning. It looks neat. I used my big peice of wood as a cliff, it looks awesome.
Now that I know I am getting a 20 gallon, I feel like my 10gal is like, it's hard to explain. Like my 10 gallon is nothing compared to a 20---something weird like that. Hope you know what I mean, although I doubt you would.

My b-day is in 9 days. WOW. That's really hard to believe. I can't wait!!! I might even be getting more LEGOs, which I love also. But I am most excited about my 20 gallon---*sighs*.

My dad says I already have so many shells. It's weird becasue I really don't, I have 9 right now. Compared to the other crabbers (people who own hermit crabs), they have like 20+! So...yeah. I still would really like more shells.

Maybe just maybe, I can get another hermie on my b-day. :) My limit for a 20 gallon (a limit I made up) is 7 or 8 crabs, I am going to check abou that on Hermit Crab Paradise and Hermit Crab Addiction, to see if that is okay.

Have a good Easter!
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I am Here

Hello.

I haven't written in 2 days! Sorrya bout that. I have been on all the hermit crabs sites.

Everyone in the crab tank seems to want to molt! Little Red is starting to dig! Hollywood is always at the shell area, weird. I wonder if Qwerty molted yet?

I went to the Complete Petmart to look for shells for Peanut, they didn't have any really, just some in bags but they were too big. Plus, for 2 shells it cost $6.25! Eek. My dad saud they will probably go out of business soon, :(

Here I am, bored. Nothing going on lately, sorry!
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Peanut Molting?

Hey--
I think Peanut is molting. He is burried and has been for a few days! I hope it goes well, along with Qwerty if he hasn't molted yet.

Nothing really much to say. I will later, thanx.

Come back soon, I will update!
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Amazing Story

LOL! Yep!

I was walking into my room, just to, be in there I guess. Anyways, I was kind of shocked: I saw Hollywood hanging off the rim of the tank (inside) with nothing below him! He must have crawled up the second level and scooted all the way down the rim! Anyways, I ran straight down stairs saying "camera-camera-camera!!" then realized the camera was upstairs in the computer room! LOL! Well, I got a few snaps:


I had to take Hollywood down, just becaue it looked like it would be stressing him out, especially his abdomen! It was hanging in that shell for dear life! He's on the ground now, where crabbies should be (besides climbing on the wood).

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Pictures Of Peanut!

~~PEANUT PICTURES~~


Yes! I got the pictures! I am so sorry I haven't updated in a while. I noticed that this morning at exactly 7:09 AM, lol! Okay, for the pics...drum rolll please:

Ain't he a cute one?! It took for ever for him to peep out of his shell. He had started coming out but then i moved my finger and he went back in. He's gettikng use to me now, all of the shadows and stuff. Here's more pictures:





Peanut is now in the main tank with the other crabs! he seems to like it, which is a good sign I saw him out and about this morning at the food dish, so yep, he's still living! Glad to see Hollywood didn't attack him (I did give Peanut a bath with the other crabs the night before, so that's probably why). See how big the shell is? He has a hard time walking around with it on, so that's a definate sign of him needing a smaller shell, or one less heavy. See what I mean about his color? It's red, yet orange!

I wish the pictures were clearer, but I'm glad I have some!

Peanut sure loves the food I cut up for them. He is always at the food dish! I guess becuase he had been being fed yucky comercial food, anything must seem good.

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Peanut!

YES! I have a new hermie! Let me start from th e beginning.

My dad and I went over to Meijer (if any of you people have it, it's a grocery store a lot like Walmart, but better). My dad was looking at some garnden siol stuff thingy, anyways, I was looking at the pet section, demanding in my mind that I will get a new hermie. I checked their crab tank..the same bad lay out: gravel every where, half the tank cover in water, a coco-fiber climbing wall, a shell full of comercial food. I was disapointed to see no hermies. I left for a while and went into the pet supplize area and look at their 20 gallons to see how their prices were. I came back to the tank and there was one little crabby there, "fighting" off the climbing well fibers. He was so cute! I thought maybe that their would be some more crabs behind the climbing wall. So I got a clerk person to unlock to tank area and open the tank up. There were a lot of crabs behind the wall! From sizes of dimes to a golf ball.
It was a little hard to choose...all those crabs suffering! I decided to go with the crab i first saw fighting the coconut fibers. So that's who's home with me now! I named him/her Peanut, isn't that a cute name? He's orangish/redish, but I believe he's a PP (Purple Pincer), his pincher is purple and the eye stalks look like PP kind.
---I would have loads of pictues, but Peanut is burrying himself, so I will leave him alone for now. He might be de-stressing and/or molting. Not sure, but he need to rest and got healthy. He has some tips of some of his "feet" off so he will need to regrow those. I LOVE Peanut, so cute! I will check the gender later, when I can. Yesterday (when he was unburried) I was trying to get him use to me picking him up off the ground (only lifted him about 3 inches, =D)

Hopefully Peanut will molt well and be able to join the big crabs. Maybe I will get Peanut a small buddy when I get the 20 gallon. Four crabs in a 10 gallon is more than enough!
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SURPRISE

Guess what? I finally got a new hermie! It's a PP (Purple Pincer)---i am preety much positive. He is kind of small, a little bigger than a quarter! I will tell the detial later. I have to go now.
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PS- pictures coming soon!

Does Anyone Agree?

I was thinking, why aren't there any hermit crab CD-rom games? I would LOVE to have a game like that! You could adpot or buy your hermit crabs and upgrade your tank, mist it, fill up the water and dish bowls, choose your food and such! Wouldn't that be so great? I think it would, I like playing games on the computer.

I don't think Qwerty has started moulting yet. I hope he does soon, I don't like having to wait so long for them to moult! He's in the main tank...I had him in ISO, but he hates that (he dropped a limb once!) so I just leave him a lone. He's dug under, and there is no trace of him even being there unless you lift up the water dish or look under neath the tank.

I found this out a while ago, like a few weeks. But anyways, for any of you crabbers out there, having a section for all your extra shells works out a lot better than having them scatterded every where. I use to do that, and they didn't seem to touch any of the shells. Also, buting many shell types is so great! The hermies love it when I buy them new shells.



That there, is Apollo, my E I use to have! He was a really cute hermie, and he would venture almost anywhere, dispite his size. He was faster than my other crabs, lol! He died in February of what I believe to be a mold intake! He started molding when he was almost at death..which is weird because they didn't happen to my other 'past' crab (I will tell you about him below)

Here's Solatire, cute huh? In real life he was pure white with black eyes, not pinkish with red eyes like in the picture. This is the only picture I have of him. He was rescued from a SHELL BOX in the pet store. He had three legs, but eventually dropped two more at my house [in ISO] and died. He was really sweet. He really liked Little Red. He would try to catch up to him but couldn't becuase he was too slow becuase of his missing legs. That makes me want to cry! He died sometime last year...October I believe.
---If you look closely at the picture, into the CocoHut, you will see a white tip, that's Little Red's shell, lol.
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Pet Store=New Hermies?

Ahh, the fresh smelll of the weekend!

MY DAY:
Yesterday I went over to my friend's house. She lives kind of 'out in the country', so it was a bit of a long ride. Wehn we got there we played with her two guines pigs, Sasha and Snuffles! They are so cute, both female and very beautiful! Snuffles has this really cute crest on his head (and obvious American Crested guinea pig, lol), Sasha is like a Dutch guinea pig, black and white with this cute little brown spot on her bum! =)
We brought them out side and sat in this swing that was way too small for both of us to sit in, let alone, with the guinea pigs too! It;s started to thunder and they sky was all gray and dark! We bot though "TORNADOE!" We tried to get unstuck from the swing, a very hard task when holding guinea pigs! We tried to run wit them in our hands, but they were bouncing like crazy.
We finally got inside and went on the computer (hollding this piggie, of course). It started to rain and there were tornadoe watches, which was pretty freaky.

Well, I am back at home now, sitting in the computer room, a little cold. I am going to a wedding today, not really on my 'want-to-do-this' list, but whatever. I will go, I have new shoes.

Last night I had a dream about tornadoes, ha, the second time this week!

HERMIES:
Well, my crabs are digging! Hollywood is digging now, behind the wood piece. I spotted Qwerty under the water dish 2 days ago, in his little dug-out. Maybe he has started to molt now. I hope it goes well, I have been feeding them better than I use to, so maybe he will be healthy.
Check out Amie's Crabby Blog, she got 3 new E's, really cute hermies! Maybe I will get some new hermies on my b-day, I sure hope so. LOL, ya know what's funny? In my dream last night, my dad had moved all my crab stuff into a new 20 gallon! Yes, I am still really excited about getting one! It's going to be great.

Well, that's all for now, bye!
~Editor

Pictures Are Needed

Bath time! lol, this was taken a while ago. All the crabbie faces are non-visible. Did they do that one purpose? That's funny! I don't even remember taking this pic, but I obviously did.

Cute Little Red is scared, like he always is. Hollywood and Qwerty are both trying to excape the water.

Look at that one! I remember taking that picture. That was the first day I bought my big piece of wood, all the crabs rushed right onto it and behind it. Little Red in the background along with Qwerty climbing to the top.





This one (to the left) was also taken from the first day I bought the wood piece. Hollywood eventually got to the top, but on his way he knocked the plant off. :) He succeeded his journry.


-Editor

Excitment is Raging!!

I am sooooo excited about the 20 gallon tank!!! It's a 20 gallon long, so it's almost twice as long as my ten. I can't wait! I need more money---I always do for hermie stuff. When ever I am saving money, I always wind up spending it on shells, or wood or small things like that instead of my real big goal. I am bad at saving money. I use to be really good at it!

I am too bored to right. I have to go study for some big huge history memory verse quiz over the WHOLE Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Oh joy.

~Editor

EXCITING UPDATE!!!

WOWOWOWOWOW!!!
I can't believe it! it's so amazing! I will tell you further on.

My dad and I were driving to the doctors (to get me checked up) and he said "Want to go to PetsMart after this?" I was like "YEAH!!!"
---I had a new doctor, he is really nice. He let me swab (throat culture for all you smart people out there) my own throat! It didn't hurt like heck as it does when the doctors do it!

So we went to PetsMart and checked out their deal with groomer. We think it's cheaper than the place recomended by the vets office. It's still looks really good. The prices seem really goood, you get 2 baths, nails trimmed, brushed, teeth brushed, ears cleaned. Really nice!

I went over to the hermit crab section, hoping to talk my dad into getting a new hermie, he changed the subject so quickly. Urg. I saw this cuty hermie who's shell was bigger than Qwerty's, smaller than Hollywood's, and I picked him up, thinking i would see a nice sized crab, but actually, the hermie was so small! Smaller than Little Red! His shell was SO BIG on him, it was pittiful! My dad wouldn't let me get him, and I felt really bad for the hermie...!
BUT, here's the good part, we went over to the tank section and my dad said "So you want a 20 gallon?" I am like "YEAH!" think to my self, Well, I have been wanting one for a really long time! So he siad it would be a birthday gift! (YES! My birthday is soon, on the 26th). We even saw a good glass flip top to go with it, i think it cost $20. The tank was like $30 or something. I told my dad to check at Meijer becaue they probably have the tank selling for $20. i am so exceited!! I can't wait until my b-day gets here!! I will be counting down the days! 20 more days 9not included today because it's almost over)!!!
I will be getting ledd pricy gift this year because of the tank, but I don't care, a NEW TANK! My hermies will love it! OMGosh, I will need to save my money for new plants and those pricy climbers and, wait! I will probably get b-day money from relatives! O MAN! This is awesome! My crabs will be even more spoiled!

Wish List For New Tank

• UTH (Under Tank Heater)
• 2 More Plants
• More Extra Shells
• More Food Dishes (I can buy those now)
• Cool Climbers

I already have a lot of wood!!! All the stuff above is enough already! It's an estimate of $40! WOW! Hopefully a lot of b-day money is coming my way! One time i got like 34 bucks, that was so great. I am saving my money up agian! (I was saving for a UTH, but then I spent it one 2 new shells...lol. I still have like, 75 cents left, that's not enough for any crabbing supplize really!) OH yes, one more thing to the list:

• One to Two New Crabs

Ahhhh, my list is complete! My crabbies will be so excited!!!!!!!

That's all for now, see ya!

-Editor

Staying Home

Today I am staying home from school, my throst is sore and swollen, not as much now. Now it doesn't really hurt! I might just take off haalf a day since I feel like I am getting better.

Does anyone out there really hate going to the doctors? I do!!

My hermies are less active right now, maybe because the weather is kind of chilly now. They seem to really like warm weather! Still, no one has touched the new shells besides Qwerty (or at least it looks like no one has touched them).

Today I would have had a quiz in history and Bible, homework due in science, and that's all. I want to stay home but yet want to go to school! Maybe later my dad and I will go shopping (my mom is at work), at PetsMart. They don't have as many animals there. Plus i would wait until I am healthy to go, I don't want to get the animals sick--if it's possible. I want another hermit crab, and PetsMart has the healthiest crabbies.

Not much else to say.
-Editor
PS- maybe if we go to PetsMart we can get a new chew-toy for Daisy (our puppie). She is chewing a lot agian!
QUOTE OF THE DAY:

"Let's begin so we can
finish"

Good News

Good news! Cleo is out of surgery and now at home. She seems to be doin better now than when we first brought her home. She ate her normal supper and is her usual self.
Sometimes next week we are going to go to a wonderful grooming place, recomended by the Animal Hosiptal, and it's just down the road form my area! YAY!
---Cleo's legs are shaved, at least just the top of them, I call it the "Punck Rock" look, because, it does! It actually look good on her...! LOL!

About my hermies...No one has seems to touch the new shells since Qwerty's mini switch! I am surprized, maybe they haven't discovered them yet??? You would think they would have, the way the wreck the tank at night...oh well, maybe some other day they will switch!

Well, need to feed them!
BYE-
-Editor PS- hopefully i will have some pictures to post on here agian, soon!

Suprise.

Ha. To my suprize the quote botton didn't work.

I am so bored, I hope Cleo is okay, that she isn't hurting. She never whines when she is hurt! She's so nice. If she was a person, wow, she would be the most humble person I know.

Bye.
PS- Jacob, if you're reading this, just to let you know, it's not funny that Cleo's mouth is bleeding, it's serious. Stop laughing. (also, if you are a Jacob, but not that Jacob I am meaning to tell this to [believe me, he knows who he is], just ignore the message.)

The Pets

Well, Cleo's mouth is still bleeding on and off. I feel so bad for her! She is 15 years old (really old for a medium sized dog). She looks are scruffy and smells. I told dad that I would give her a bath yesterdy, he said "No, let's wait til is wamrer. 70 degrees or higher." I am so upset right now! It was 60 something yesterday, more than warm enough for a dog bath!!! And today when i said "Take her to the vet," (I more like demanded it) he said "i'm too emarrassed to take her! She looks terrible" (she pees on her self, she can't control it so her fur is all clumpy and smells). WELL, if I gave her a bath yesterday, would she look like that today?!? NO! HELLO! DING-DONG, any one home?! Gee! It's not roket science!

---Aw man! I just remembered, I have to finish this science project that seems too complecated for me, it's about space centers and all that stuff and all teh missions and stuff. *sighs*

My dad is off to the vet, not sure with Cleo, but he's checking out what they could do for her.
I need to pray, i really hope there's some way to help her. My dad was talking about how they would "Have to gas her and do something, but at her age..." he didn't finish, I did "She might die!"
...It weird to think that this morning in my journal I wrote,

Today I fell extra happy.

Let's just leave it like that.

-Editor PS- hope the quote thing work, I bet it didn't, at least not how I wanted it to.

The All

Hello.
Well, this morning was normal. came down stairs let the puppie in (i have two dogs, a puppie and a senior =D) I had blood on my tights, but didn't think much of it. Thought it was from Daisy (puppy), her teeth are coming in so they bleed sometimes.

Well, I came home and my dad said that Cleo's (senior pup) leg had blood on it. I was like, what?!?! She came out her doggie house and I saw that she had blood a little on the side of her face along with her leg! I cried because I was so worried about her. Then I saw her up close and saw her moth must have been bleeding, not her leg! She has this gum growth (harmless, it just get's in the way if it get so big, we've had it removed before, it came back anyways) and she must have bit it! I was so relieved it wasn't her leg. Like my dad says 'Mouth injuries heal quickly." which is true. She's all cleaned up now, yay! She looked like she had been in a battle the way blood (not a lot) was all down the front of her left side!!

So yes, yesterday I bought two pairs of shoes (on that shopping trip!). One for this wedding and the other just for school or what ever. I wore the school ones today and lots of people complamented on them! All the girly-girls (who are into all the fashion stuff, the rich people, or the people who act rich...!) liked them, it made me feel special, lol! Not really.
---Too bad my friend was sick today with a cold, she has asthma and it makes it worse. =( But i called her and she is getting better!

Well, not much happening in hermie land. The tank is kind of quiet. Kind of. Qwerty is in his favprite spot on the drift wood. LOL! Silly crab.

I have some revange to do ;)...be back later.
-Editor

Shell Change...Or Not!

Well, Qwerty did change into the Turbo, he must not of liked it, and he changed back to his old shell. I like the Turbo better than his other shell (a type of Babylon shell). It's a better fit on him the other one it s bit too big, maybe he likes it that way. He would also look good in the other new shell, but, I don't know if he has tried it on yet!

Hollywood is still in his new shell, he really must like it! I do too, it's really good looking on him. Little Red is still in his normal shell, maybe he will try the new ones on.

All my hermies were out and about today when I walked in! They must sense spring, they have been more active now that the weather has been warmer. (which is a relief, now I have more time to save money for a UTH [Under Tank Heater] with out worrying about my crabs freezing!!)
----I am really glad I didn't spend my money on make-up, I really enjoy having more shells for my hermies to choose from. They must really enjoy it too, they have been trying them on! LOL! Oh yes, did I tell you I saw the shell switch Qwerty made? It was cool. I have seen him go into a shell before, but not out of one. It looked neat.

CHECK OUT MY SITES: http://groups.msn.com/HermieCollege/welcomeboard.msnw
http://www.freewebs.com/hermitcrabrcool/

I haven't updated Free Webs in a while, not really.

Bye for now!

New Shells

Hey!

Good news, I checked over at Petland today, while on a shipping trip with my mom and sister. It was great, they actually listened to me!!! They now have water in their water bowls, and have lots of food (I don't how good the food is, but it wasn't that weird yellow powder, it was like, Oatmeal looking, still, it's food!). The clerk there was really nice. He was almost 50 (he said that when he was twlking with my mom), but he look like 40. Anyways, he showed me how he fed the Albino Frogs (check this out, their the white frogs: http://www.pollywog.co.uk/africanclawedfrogcaresheet.html), he fed them live fish!!! The fishies were cute, but it was fun to watch the frogs jump at them and eat 'em whole!

Well, the clerk, my mom, and I all talked about the hermit crabs and what all they need and stuff and what they SHOULD be doing (the humidity and stuff). He listened. we told him about the painted shells and how they are bad. He said he had no control over that (but I don't rememeber, he might of said he will tell the manager about it, I don't know.) It was cool. Hopefully I can work there sometime with the crabs when I am older.
----I did buy 2 new shells, one kind of like this: http://naplesseashellcompany.com/gold_mouth_turbo_shell.htm
and another like this: http://naplesseashellcompany.com/japanese_fairy_land_snail.htm

Hope my hermies like them. i have to go, bye!
~Editor

Okay, I need to write in a larger size, sorry, I had changed templates and didn't notice how hard it is to read everything!

Well, first off, do you like the purple template? I do, there were two other ones i erally like, but I couldn't get them to work! One was beack themed with shells in the background (I really would have liked that one, it went with hermit crabs perfectly) and the other was colorful stripes! Oh well, I will stick to this one for now!

Oh yes, here's those pictures, the new plant ones:
I know, it's all bent, that was because of me, I was trying to get it to fit in the storage box! =D

They are a nice size, I cut them to fit the way I wanted them to.

Here's the tank, it's looked cooler other times, but i didn't feel like fiddling around with it, so I practically just threw the leaves in:


I really enjoy wood, and lots of it, my crabs eat it and climb on it an hide behind it. I would
say it would almost be perfect, except for
some people it molds, and drift wod some- times falls apart! But I really like it. OooOo, now I see that the picture really is at a horrid angle, sorry about that! Maybe once we recharge the batteries in the camera, I can retake the pictures.

Okay, now I am done blogging for a while today.

~Editor

Links

Well, my links aren't working, I don't know why!!! URG!

Here they are, the clickable ones:

Amie's crabby Page: http://amie91280.blogspot.com/
Crab Street Journal: http://www.crabstreetjournal.com/
*Hermit Crab Addiction [Forums]:http://hermitcrabaddiction.net/forum/index.php
Hermit Crab Paradise: http://www.hermitcrabparadise.com/
Hermit Crab Association: http://www.hermitcrabassociation.com/phpBB/index.php
Crab In The Coco Hut: http://www.kazboard.com/citcch.html
Epicurean Hermit: http://www.epicureanhermit.com/
Crabby Talk: http://www.crabbytalk.com/category/about/
Naple's Sea Shell Co.(not on the list): http://naplesseashellcompany.com/index.html

Sorry about all that, but I hope that helps! Please leaves comments if there are any more that should be added! Thank you! (please, only hermit crab themed links!)

My Tank

Well, I am bored.
Yesterday I went to the Dollar Tree (where everything costs $1). I bought some cool plants. They are like palm tree leaves, they're fake though.
I will show you pictures later, the darn picture botton isn't working!!!
urg!
Well, that's all for now!
~Writer