After weeks of hesitation, I have finally taken the plunge and acquired my first pets since the ill-fated Chinese turtles. Yes, if you can believe it, I was anxious about whether I was up to the responsibility of raising... hermit crabs. Finally, I decided it was silly to have a terrarium all set up with nothing in it, so yesterday I bravely acquired the little critters.
It's funny how from the minute I put them in their new home they showed extremely different "personalities"--I mean, if something can have personality in a brain the size of a pin-head. The smaller one ("Intrepid") literally hit the ground running, explored all over the cage immediately, and did some death-defying stunts on some of the taller shells. The larger one ("Pokey") didn't even venture to put his legs out of his shell for about five minutes. I was worried that it had died in transit! When it finally did get moving, it retreated immediately under the huge shell I gave them to hide in, and has not been seen since. (Intrepid disappeared during the day today but has made a few more exploratory laps of the cage this evening.) I am excited to think Pokey might possibly be molting. When I peeked under the shell, it was buried down in pretty far.
Pocket of Bolts just thinks they're feeling a little hot. So are we! Heat really doesn't agree with me. Have been huddled up in the bedroom, the only room so far that has an air-conditioner, for most of the day.
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