Expensive crabs

the hermit crab hut was back in the middle of the mall when we were there yesterday picking up free underwear from Victoria's Secret, and i was very tempted by a couple of highly active medium sized crabs.  so i asked the girl what the prices were for them.  9 bucks for a small one!  12 for medium!  and i totally shut down after that so i don't know what astronomical price they were asking for the large and jumbo.  i informed that was incredibly expensive, but she seemed to think it was justified because they were painted.  i don't care about that.  whenever i get ones with painted shells, they move into a plain one anyway.  and that's still too damn expensive.  so i walked away from the crab hut empty handed.  john was proud of me.

when i went into PetSmart later to pick up some Turtle Clean, i checked out their crabs.  fancy ones were going for 5 bucks.  i wouldn't buy them from PetSmart because there's always a leg or something lying around the tank, but i'm just saying.