In the mean time, we purchased two more crabs, slightly larger than Rex and Buzz. One is a purple pincher named Jessie, like Buzz and Rex, and the other is Ecuadorian named Bullseye. He's crazy, running in all directions, tunneling like crazy. Both of the new crabs are in shells that are too small.
Bullseye stayed underground about 24 hours after checking out his new home. Last night he was out again and Bullseye changed shells sometime during the night. The shell he's in is still too small (he can't pull into it very well) and I put some even larger shells in the tank. I thought Jessie might change to a bigger shell this morning as she was checking one out that she'd dragged to the side of the tank, but so far she's still in her old shell.
Rex is way more active now that he has friends. (By the way, we don't know what sex the crabs are, I'm just calling them male or female based on the names my son gave them. Yes, we are a little obsessed with Toy Story names over here.)
We have been feeding the crabs a variety of our food, and they seem to love it. My son likes to pick out something for them to eat. We use the Epicurean Hermit Crab to check to see if the food is on the safe or unsafe list.
They loved the prickly pear fruit we gave them Tuesday morning. And had made progress eating some of the rose petals we gave them yesterday. We also gave them some grapes yesterday. Today we gave them celery leaves, tuna and a piece of pepper (the one that Bullseye is sitting on in the picture).
Some pictures.
In the pictures of the two new crabs moving the moss, Bullseye is in the little dark/black colored shell and Jessie is in the green "turbo" shell. The single crab picture is of Bullseye in his new blue shell sitting on the bell pepper (eating). It's a round opening shell (I read Ecuadorians prefer "D" shaped openings.)
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