My 6.5 Hermits :)

This Blog Is Basically Just To Share About
How My 6.5 Hermit Crabs Are Doing.
I'll Also Be Posting Several Videos I Took
During The 3 Months Plus Period I Had Them.
They're Great Fun To Have Around :).

Long Description Of My 3Mths Rearing Hermits.

Well It Started I Was Feeling Down So Tried Rearing Fishes,
Sad To Say Out Of The 4 Fishes I Started With,
2 Turned White And Died, And I Passed The Other 2 Fishes
Onto My Sister Who Had A More Successful Tank Than I Did.

Gotten A White Crab, Which Mysteriously Died With Its Legs
And Claws Opened Wide During The Night. Found Him Floating
Upside Down Like A Boat.

Had A Tiny Black Crab Too.. But Something Went Wrong.. It
Lost All Its Limbs And Died. Probably From Stress As It Did
Not Move From Day 1.

Went With My Sis To Qian Hu Fish Farm To Look At Fishes
And Get Some Stuff, When I Saw And Bought My First
Hermit Crab (To Tell The Truth, I Knew Nuts About Them).
Lol Also It Costs Double What What My Later Hermits Costed,
Though To Be Fair, It's Also The Largest I Have.

I Chose It For Its Nice Silvery Shell It Had.
-_-.. Though.. The Silvery Shell Did Not Last Long..
The Reason Being... The Fella There Was Nice Enough To
Give Me A Spare Shell When I Asked Where To Get Some,
And While It Was Waiting For Me To Get Stuff It Needed,
It Changed Shell In The Plastic Bag Which It Was Packed In..
Still.. The New White Shell Looked Great Too.

This Hermit Distracted Me From Unhappy Thoughts And Provided Me,
With Fun As It Plays Hide And Seek, Moving Only When I look Away
And Hides Immediately When I Look Back.

Soon, I Bought A Larger Tank For The Hermit And
Spent A Bundle Hunting For Sand Around Singapore.
At First I Used Calci Sand, Till I Decided It Was
Burning A Hole In My Pocket As My Hermits Needed A
Rather Deep Layer. Read Online And Found Play Sand
Could Be Used Too. Hunted Around Singapore For Some,
Till I Found I Could Get Cheap Sand From Pasir Ris
Farmway. Read Alot Of Websites On How To Maintain
A Hermit Crab Too. While Hunting For Sand, I found
A Place Which, Sells Tiny Hermit Crabs Once In Awhile
At The Farmway. I Bought 2 On The Spot. Sad To Say 1
decided to go Nude Without Its Shell Frequently and
Subsequently Died Not Long After. The Other's Still
Surviving Nicely And Even Changed To A Larger Shell
Not Long After.

The Next 2 Came Along When I Heard or Read Somewhere
that Clementi Had a 24 Hour Shop. Went There Late At
Night, Though That Shop Did Not Have Hermit, They Had
Quite Afew Supplies Which I Kept Going To Get From Them.
The Shop Beside It However Had Hermits, I Bought 2..
Though I Gotta Admit. The Enclosure The Hermits Were Kept
In Did Not Look Well Maintained. Still, I'm Happy With
These 2 Additions.

The Last 2 Crabs I Have, Came Only A Week Ago, When
The Above Mentioned 24 Hour Shop Mentioned That
Serangoon North Ave 1 or 2 Sold Hermit Crabs. I
Went There And Found Hermits Which Looked Very Healthy
And Nice, The Staff There Were Very Friendly Too.
Think The Shop Name is Called PetMart.
The Crabs Were Very Active and I bought 2 Straight Away
And Got 2 More Afew Days After. Which Ends With My Current
Total Of 7 Hermits.

Now, You Might Be Wondering, Why Did I State That
I have 6.5 Crabs Instead Of 7?

Lol Its Because One Of My Crab Has Started To Molt,
And Its Causing Me Some Worry, As It's Doing A Surface
Molt, Meaning Molting Without Being Buried. Heard It
Reduces Their Chance Of Survival. I Sperated It
From The Other Hermits And Hoping Its All Right.
Prob Gonna Take 1-2 Months Before I'll State I
Have 7 Again :).

These Crabs Have Provided Me With Tons Of Entertainment,
And I Try To Give Them Whatever I Can Think Of,
And Hope It's Enough.

Gonna Add A Chatter Box Soon So We Can All Chat :)
Also Gonna Post What My Tank Looks Like Now,
After Many Upgrading Of Stuff. :)

Cya

P.S. Pardon The Poor Phrasing And Long Verbal Vomiting,
As Its Currently Almost 2 Am And My Brain's Half Asleep..
Think This Is The Last Time I'll Use Capital Letters Before
Each Word :) So.. Rejoice :)