Hermit crab update

[sal_amanda]

I gave Zoidberg some time to see if he would come out of his storm stress induced coma, but I had no hopes on the matter. However, I peaked in the tank before I went to bed, and he wasn't in that corner anymore. He was wandering around like normal, only naked.

I had taken out some of the empty shells because there was a truly absurd amount of shells in there for only two crabs, but I quickly ran to put every shell that he could possibly fit into back in the tank and begged Zoidberg to put his butt into one of them as he seemed to be checking them out.

So this morning we have success. He apparently found a shell that he liked and he woke up after I spritzed the tank with water. He's hanging out in the water dish currently and now I'm hoping for a full recovery.

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[i-am-solid.livejournal.com]

They are such sensitive little nude things.

[sal_amanda]

He has changed shells at least twice (that I've noticed anyway) since I posted this entry. He was a frequent shell changer anyway. The other one has been in the same shell since I got him over a year ago.

[sal_amanda]

I love Futurama and feel it was very underappreciated. Zoidberg is one of my favorite characters, so one of my first hermit crabs was named after him. It seemed oh so appropriate.

He was a feisty little thing and one day he climbed out of his shell and was running around naked. We couldn't coerce him into a new shell so he wound up drowning himself in the water dish. This new one seemed to have a similar personality, thus I named him Zoidberg II.

[sal_amanda]

Well, then I have good news for you. One of the U.S. cable channels is supposed to be doing new episodes next year. I can't remember which channel off the top of my head. Comedy Central, I think?