Oh, what to do?

     After my first comment on Chloe's video I started wondering if I should get another hermit crab to keep her company. I'm just so nervous they are going to fight, and with my awful luck they will. However I will give it a shot and see what happens - take it from there. I will try and record it as well, maybe someone can point out if I did something wrong. 

     On another note, I have been having a hard time with temperature lately. The warm days and cool nights have been driving the crabitat crazy. I feel like it hasn't been prefect these last couple of days but Chloe seems fine. If anything she's acting as if she is unaffected by it. Still my little energizer bunny. 

     I actually caught her sleeping the other day, completely tucked inside her shell! There's a first time for everything. I opened the lid to the tank to quickly snap a picture and boom the moment was gone... I'm telling you, its like she knows when the cameras near. Oh, well I'll get her one of these days. 

    

Until next time,

Pearl Popping~

Random thoughts :3

     Woke up to a cloudy sky this morning but Chloe seems to like it. More active than when I usually see her walking about in the daytime, she is just moving all over the tank which is a good thing because she was rather still last night. Choosing to stay on top of the bridge for hours and making me nervously check the levels every ten minutes to see if something was wrong. I did give the fresh food a break, only giving her two different hermit crab pellets I bought from the pet store so maybe that was it. With the mold scare, though, I'm trying to fight any new growth and the reasons that it appeared to begin with.

     I will be adding some apple pieces and either organic peanut butter or a small piece of tuna to her bowl later so she will have fresh food tonight. I think that leaving the food in for the suggested 24 hours is what lead to my crabitat growing mold so from now on I will only leave it for the night and replace it in the morning. Also, I will be doing more frequent cleans. The sand needs to move around more to prevent growth and possibly add dry calcium sand as well to remain excessive wetness while adding something good for her health. I'm actually debating on putting half and half substrate so it's more like it would be in the wild for her. Placing the saltwater on the side with the sand and the fresh food/water with the soil/coconut bedding. I may wait until fall comes around as I am worried that it may make the mold grow faster.  

     Anyway, back to what I wanted to talk about: After I went to bed, she must have moved around a bit; the fake plant I had added after her climbing episode last time (Read it here: Over protective mom?) fell throughout the night. I put it back up, adding a few more hooks to keep it in place, and she ran over to me as if so excited I was fixing her toy. Maybe it's a sign she's used to me? I hope so~!  ^---^

   

Until next time,

Pearl Popping~

    

First Shells

     Chloe's first two shells with me ^--^ I was hoping to get her in the new shell beside these two however she was running away too much so I had to put her back. Unlike Prada, Chloe never really goes inside of her shell which makes handling her a bit tough. She is my energizer bunny through and through (^3^)

I bought her in the white one and once home she entered the spotted one on the right.

The size compared to a US penny.

Until next time,
Pearl Popping~