New Hermit!
The day before yesterday I went into my local petco, the one that I got the strawberry from that gave mites to my hermits and Alteaque was killed because of it. I went over to the regular species tanks. They have the "fancy" crabs and the regular crabs seperated. It looked like sand had been sprinkled over the top of the sand. When you took a look closer the sand was moving and had legs. Mites. Really, really bad mites. The worse case of mites I've ever seen. There was a medium PP sitting in the tank, good looking crab. Looked JUST like Alteaque. Being that Alteaque was killed from mites that she had gotton from that store, it was very upsetting for me. It was like Alteaque sitting in a pile of mites. So I told the guy that they had really bad mites in the crab tank and he replyed with, "I know that, I just redid the tank yesterday, I guess I'll have to re-do it again." My foot he did. That tank hadn't been cleaned out for months... more realistically a year. Well, later that day when I was telling my sister and mom about it I cried. It was so terribly bad. So, yesterday one of my bearded dragon's basking lamp burned out so we had to go down there again and get a light. Puanani died from streaking, so we had to try to find an indo. When we got there the lady was digging through the tank roughly, manhandling the crabs badly. Anyway, no crabs in the regular shelled tank. So I looked through the fancy tank and found no indos. Just PPs in the regular-shelled tank and just PPs and rugs in the fancy tank. There were two jumbo PPs there that had bad mites. Both the fancy tank and the regular tank had terrible mites. I chose a female jumbo PP in a black painted shell that had neon green and pink stripes on it. *rolls eyes* But anyway, I carried her in the car, didn't want her in that box. She was very sweet and docile. She's a gorgeous crab, I was very suprised at how healthy she looked in that tank, so she hadn't been there very long, maybe a couple days tops. But anyway, I gave her two throughough salt water baths and made sure she was clean as clean gets. So I added her to the main tank and she switched into a beautiful Tapestry Turbo. It's a bit small, but not too bad. There's a jumbo-sized tapestry turbo in there that she apparently hasn't found yet. She's doing great, yesterday she drank tons of salt water and ate tons of over-ripe mango and kiwi.
I'll get pictures ASAP! I need new batteries for my digital camera, that thing drains batteries like there's no tommorow!
posted by Osippi @ 12:04 PM
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