I've found some new friends. I was down at the beach on Tuesday afternoon with my coworker John who was in town from Jakarta. Like myself, John's a big photo buff and with his brand new snazzy Nikon digital SLR camera, John takes some amazing photos.
So we were on the beach, John photographing the sunset and me beachcombing for cool shells. I picked up a pretty spiral shell and found myself face-to-face with a pair of tiny pinchers. A hermit crab! It was love at first sight. I decided to take hermie home with me but didn't really know what to do with it. So I put him in the biggest tupperware I had and started googling for "hermit crab care". To my surprise, there were like 500 hits! I guess there are lots of people out there who love hermies. I stayed up until quite late reading about caring for my hermies and how to set up a "crabitat". Most of the sites said that hermies are social animals and they like having company.
The next afternoon, I went back out to the same beach in search of "hermrades" (comrades, get it?) for my hermie. I easily found 2 smaller critters and also loaded up on substrate (a.k.a. sand). I found a big-o plastic box in the office and emptied sand into it, along with some shells. My hermies now have a new home! They're now in my bathroom, as it is the most humid place in the house.
Tomorrow night, I'm gonna head out to the beach again to fetch for some sea water. My hermies are giving me a good reason to go out to the beach to catch sunsets more frequently.
And no...don't you even think about crab cakes.
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Cool - just make sure you have some shells in there that are just slightly larger than the ones that your hermit crabs are in now. The little buggers change shells more often that you'd think. (Remember, I worked at a touch tank every summer for about 5 years)
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