HCA: Hermit Crab Association

For the past few months we've seen Mary (tiny) and David (medium) hanging out together. Almost inseparable since Mary arrived. I've seen him follow under her when she's being daring and climbing branches. He keeps his shell under her where she can reach out and feel it with a foot when she gets nervous.

Well, last night I saw David doing the 'I'm gonna change' dance down by the water hole. This morning I was surprised to see what I thought was him stuck in the pool, unable to get out. He was soaked and had obviously been trying to get out for a while. I was confused because the pool isn't hard to get out of. When I lifted him up, the legs and claws slurped up inside, far deeper than David could possibly go.

It wasn't David. Mary was wearing David's cast off shell.

She's way too small for it but she waddled off with it anyway when I set her down on the sand. I guess she wanted to make sure and keep the shell close to her even though it's too big. Silly crab.

That's cute!!


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I noticed David poking around the shells again but he was too big for everything we had in the tank so I got him 2 new shiny shells to shop. He immediately put one on and left his old shell in the pile.

Mary is still hanging out with him, his constant little companion. When he's on the wheel, she's sitting in the hammock above it. When he cast off this shell she tried to take his old one again, just like last time. It was HUGE on her. She could barely see out of it. She kept the last one even though it was too big. Only ditched it when he got a new one, though there are plenty of shells her size in there. She just wants to keep David's.

Aww like a lil sis trying to keep up w/ big bro.

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