Post by Sach-Crabministrator on Aug 19, 2011 3:04:31 GMT -5
Ok. So. Last year, I got some smaller crabs. I already had Toki & then we got Jonni. Sometime while Jonni was still buried, we got 3 more smaller guys-Charles, Mojo Jojo & Tiny Tim. This past March, I got Barry & Seminole , 2 more smaller guys.
Now, last fall I found someone dead in Pikachu's old shell when I did the sub change, someone else turned up dead under the salt pool recently and....I found another dead one in a somewhat horrible way (I'll explain in my journal) last week. That means 3 gone out of the 7.
So, the point is that I have no idea who 4 of my 8 crabs are nor who were the ones who died. I remember that the one I found last fall seemed to be the size of Toki or Jonni though not with a claw as big as I remembered Toki's being. I can tell my big crabs apart easily because they are built differently (ie; Mothra and Godzilla are nearly the same size, but Mothra has meatier legs and so stands taller) and all colored very differently. Plus, I think bigger crabs are easier to identify because you can see their features better. I thought that Jonni & Toki were about the same size, but I never saw Jonni often enough to be very familiar with her or get very good pics.
So looking back through my pictures, all I can determine is that one of my very smallest is the one I found last week (but not Tiny Tim since the shell was too small) and that the crab missing limbs is NOT Seminole as I first thought. I don't even know how much I can rely on the pictures since even the crabs I can identify have changed color & size dramatically in the last year.
I just don't know what to do to figure it out.
Now, last fall I found someone dead in Pikachu's old shell when I did the sub change, someone else turned up dead under the salt pool recently and....I found another dead one in a somewhat horrible way (I'll explain in my journal) last week. That means 3 gone out of the 7.
So, the point is that I have no idea who 4 of my 8 crabs are nor who were the ones who died. I remember that the one I found last fall seemed to be the size of Toki or Jonni though not with a claw as big as I remembered Toki's being. I can tell my big crabs apart easily because they are built differently (ie; Mothra and Godzilla are nearly the same size, but Mothra has meatier legs and so stands taller) and all colored very differently. Plus, I think bigger crabs are easier to identify because you can see their features better. I thought that Jonni & Toki were about the same size, but I never saw Jonni often enough to be very familiar with her or get very good pics.
So looking back through my pictures, all I can determine is that one of my very smallest is the one I found last week (but not Tiny Tim since the shell was too small) and that the crab missing limbs is NOT Seminole as I first thought. I don't even know how much I can rely on the pictures since even the crabs I can identify have changed color & size dramatically in the last year.
I just don't know what to do to figure it out.