Molting Crab Caught in the Act

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Molting Crab Caught in the Act

Post by Guest » Sun Oct 24, 2010 9:48 pm

My kids were thrilled to see this (and relieved to know that their dead-looking crab was just molting). Our smallest crab chose to molt directly under one of the water bowls:

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And I don't know why that little guy picked such a huge shell. He's been dragging it along forever, in spite of having a large selection of appropriately-sized shells LOL!

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Post by Big MaC » Mon Oct 25, 2010 6:01 pm

cool pic. be sure to have honey and cuttle bone and organic peanut butter at his disposal :D
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Post by JangoCatt » Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:04 pm

Wow! That is a really awesome thing to get to see and photograph.

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