Skywalker and Mr. Krabs

These are our new family pets. Hermit crabs. The one in the white shell is named Mr. Krabs.
The one in the black and white shell is named Skywalker.

Mr. Krabs is always the first one out and crawling around. He's social.

Skywalker is a scaredy cat. He refuses to come out. We have to be very still and patient.

Hello Mr. Krabs!

Finally, Skywalker started coming out. I stood there holding the camera forever waiting for him to come out. In the meantime, Mr. Krabs almost fell of the table a few times--oops.

Hold your breath.........he's coming out.

Finally!

When they are in their cage they bury themselves in the bark and stay there all day. When I go in after the kids are in bed, they are out and about climbing around. Apparently hermit crabs are nocturnal--we didn't know that and it kind of stinks.

We feed them grapes, pears, and celery leaves. They eat well. We have to spray them with distilled salt water once a day and the bark 2-3 times a day because they need humidity. The first crab Megan bought died because we didn't know what we were doing. I'm still not sure if we know what we are doing, but obviously we are doing better because they've lived for 1 whole month and they are still happy!!