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Did you know you can order crabs through the mail? Oh yes, it's legal. Well, in the US anyway. I have 8 hermit crabs and 5 of them came via mail, straight from Florida to Pennsylvania. It's funny how they all have different personalities. I mean, they're crabs...so you'd think they'd all just be boring and cranky or something...but they're not. My first 2 crabs I got from a little store in a mall. They're both purple pinchers, medium size. One is very outgoing and energetic, never afraid of anything. He's so comfortable with people that he'll come almost completely out of his shell in your hand! This is how I know he's a "he"--He comes out far enough for me to sex him. The other is a lot more shy and I had to work with her for about 2 months before I could sex her, but she is definitely female! Numbers 3 through 7 are purple pinchers also, and they're the ones that came through the mail. All of them were pretty shy at first, except for one, who frequently allows me to watch her change shells (I have pictures). The rest I'm not sure if they're male or female yet. One is huge, about the size of a baseball, and insists on wearing a shell that is about 3 sizes too small. Another is a very small, spunky thing that thinks it can take on the bigger ones in a shellfight but always ends up getting stepped on and buried.. The other two I think of as twins, because their personalities are very much alike--they're both incredibly shy--and their shells are similar in appearance. Crab number 8 is an Ecuadorian who came from a pet shop near a movie theater in a town close to where I grew up. I haven't been able to sex it yet, but it's very active and fearless so it shouldn't take much work. It's so fearless, though, that it once climbed to the very top of the terrarium, fell, and snapped off part of its pincher...but still climbed right back up to the top afterwards! (I say "fearless" but what I'm really thinking is more along the lines of "stupid" lol.)
Well, now that you've listened to me babble about my hermit crabs--if you even had the patience to read all of that--I'd like to hear about your crabbies, too!
lolDid you know you can order crabs through the mail? Oh yes, it's legal. Well, in the US anyway. I have 8 hermit crabs and 5 of them came via mail, straight from Florida to Pennsylvania. It's funny how they all have different personalities. I mean, they're crabs...so you'd think they'd all just be boring and cranky or something...but they're not. My first 2 crabs I got from a little store in a mall. They're both purple pinchers, medium size. One is very outgoing and energetic, never afraid of anything. He's so comfortable with people that he'll come almost completely out of his shell in your hand! This is how I know he's a "he"--He comes out far enough for me to sex him. The other is a lot more shy and I had to work with her for about 2 months before I could sex her, but she is definitely female! Numbers 3 through 7 are purple pinchers also, and they're the ones that came through the mail. All of them were pretty shy at first, except for one, who frequently allows me to watch her change shells (I have pictures). The rest I'm not sure if they're male or female yet. One is huge, about the size of a baseball, and insists on wearing a shell that is about 3 sizes too small. Another is a very small, spunky thing that thinks it can take on the bigger ones in a shellfight but always ends up getting stepped on and buried.. The other two I think of as twins, because their personalities are very much alike--they're both incredibly shy--and their shells are similar in appearance. Crab number 8 is an Ecuadorian who came from a pet shop near a movie theater in a town close to where I grew up. I haven't been able to sex it yet, but it's very active and fearless so it shouldn't take much work. It's so fearless, though, that it once climbed to the very top of the terrarium, fell, and snapped off part of its pincher...but still climbed right back up to the top afterwards! (I say "fearless" but what I'm really thinking is more along the lines of "stupid" lol.)
Well, now that you've listened to me babble about my hermit crabs--if you even had the patience to read all of that--I'd like to hear about your crabbies, too!
