R.I.P. - Mr. Blue

Mr. Blue passed away sometime during the weekend of July 26th-27th. We had purchased him back in May sometime, and he became our favorite hermit crab. As a small Ecuadorian hermit crab, and with his sky blue tint, he was unlike any other hermit crab we owned. He enjoyed sunbathing, digging around in the sand, and crawling around on our hands. We are unsure whether or not he died from a disease, virus, lack of molting, or something else, but we had moved him to an isolation tank before or at the time of his death in case he was molting. He will be missed.

Profile: Becky

This is Becky:

She is the first hermit crab, I purchased. She is the smallest of the hermit crabs I currently own. The first weeks of her arrival, she was very shy and would not come out of her shell. However, the more we held her and the more comfortable she became with her surrounds she came around and now is one of the most friendliest crab. Becky is very hard to find in the cage if she has dug down because she is so small!!

At the first, we thought Becky was an Ecuadorian crab but after she molted, her purple pincher appeared so apparently she has been a purple pincher all along! That was before we were more knowledge about identifying the different hermit crabs.

Bob's Big Adventure!

Right after I got to work on Thursday the 3rd of July, my parents called me to tell me that they found a hermit crab walking around on the stairs going into the basement! I was surprised and told Annah and we thought it was our smallest crab "Becky" whom I had taken out the previous night to play with for a few minutes while we were watching Super Nanny. However, as the day progressed and I examined the cage where the escaped hermit crab had been placed, I realized that this was not "Becky" but was instead "Bob" whom Annah and I had thought was eaten by my larger (giant) crabs during the one night we put all of the hermit crabs in one cage. We had thought he was dead because he was nowhere to be found in any shell and we had set some "extra" shells outside on a chair since they weren't being using. Turns out Bob was inside one of these "empty" shells and he must have rolled himself off of the chair. He then roamed around my rec-room for about three to four weeks without any real source of food or water so we hope he will survive! So far he is still alive and happy to be back in his home!

Mr. Blue

Here is "Mr. Blue", one of our Ecuadorian Hermit Crabs. He is the most active of our small hermit crabs and a fun crab to take out and hold in your hand. During this photo shoot I was unable to get him to come out of his shell, but I will have to try again sometime. Also, future posts will have pictures of all of our other crabs and their tanks or crabitats!