Luna Tail

Yikes! The Hermit Crabs come tomorrow! They are on their way now, as I type this, overnight delivery. I’m going to get three of them. I have a temporary crabitat setup at home so they will stay here with me at night, then I’ll take them to work where I have their permanent setup, tomorrow.

Soooo…. I’m nervous! I hope they are okay.

I ordered the hermit crabs! Woo Hoo! I ordered them from The Crabbage Patch. I’m going to the small hermit crabs. I talked to the gentleman at The Crabbage Patch and he recommended more sand for the mediums. I will still add more sand for the smalls but this will give them more sand to burrow in when they want to.

They will be mailed next Tuesday, overnight, and then I’ll get them on Wednesday. Since I work from home on Wednesday I will be there when they come. I’m excited! Woo hoo welcome to the new crabbies!

Well, looks like I am going to need a humidifier. In less than 48 hours the humidity in the tank has dropped from 78% to 58%. That’s after I put the sand in, and the sand was fairly moist. So this is what I get for living in the desert!

So I’ll be putting one together, probably a DIY humidifier, and setting it into the tank before I get any land hermit crabs. Gotta have the crabitat right first!

Okay.. well, here is the setup! I have the sand in and the UTH on the back. Near the heater it temp is 79F. Away from the heater on the far front corner the temp is 77F. Hrm, I wonder if that should be a warmer spread. I’m not sure, I’ll have to read up.

The humidity is about 70%. That needs to be about 80%. I have to wet down the sand more, I think that will increase the humidity. I need to get some declorinator first, though, as I don’t want to just throw tap water in there.

It’s coming along. I’m now checking out some medium land hermit crabs to populate the tank with. I’m thinking 3 at first. Maybe 4. I’d eventually like to get 5 total, but we’ll see how that goes.

And I want to knit a hemp hammock to put in, but I need to find where to buy some good undyed hemp. And I’d like the back to have a climbing wall, probably a tightly knitted hemp climbing wall.

I’m getting excited!

Which, in any other context, might sound like a bad thing. I put the sand in the tank today and, of course, forgot my camera. I’ll have to take some pics next week.

I plugged in the UTH - Under Tank Heater - and put in my thermometer and humidity meter. So it’ll go all weekend and when I get back I’ll see what the temp and humidity are, and then adjust accordingly.

I hope some crabbies like this tank. I put about 2.5 inches of sand in. I have more, if the crabs I get are bigger than this. But I think I want hermit crabs about that size.

I stopped by Home Depot last night and bought sand. And it has no silica in it, so I’m pleased. I had some sand with silica and had to ask if they have any without, which they did. Sand is very cheap! And this beach sand is brown, which I like better than the stark white. It’s more natural.

So I’m going to bring it to work today, and hope to remember my camera, and set it up! Yay! Then I will wait for a few days to see how the temp and humidity are before putting crabs in.

Okay… tomorrow I plan on going and buying some play sand. I’d like to mix some shells in it… is it shells to add calcium? Now I forgot. But really sand is the only thing left that I need. And then I can start adding crabs.

Unfortunately the glass lid I bought is not fitting the tank perfectly. It is about 1/2″ too short length wise, and I think about 1/2″ to wide. I’m not sure what to do about it. I am probably going to try to rig something up, but I don’t know what, to get it to sit securely on the tank and not fall in, and yet be easy to remove, too. I think I have an odd tank size.

I’m excited, I want to get some crabs!

I’ve been invited to a poker game! LOL how fun. I haven’t played in years. And I don’t remember much about it, either, but it should be fun. I have not played poker online, but I think that would be fun, too. PokerStars is releasing Mac PokerStars soon, that can be played on the Mac. I still want a Mac but I really couldn’t afford it.

Anyway, if you have a Mac and you like poker, or even if you are just curious about both, check it out. I need to brush up on my poker skills, and write down which hand is highest.. isn’t it straight flush, straight, full house, three of a kind… something like that? Hrm.

I found this on another blog… The Passionate Ailurophile and just had to make my own.

I think the man looks just exactly like my husband! LOL. And I look like me pretty much, and my clothes don’t match, which is typical.

If you want to go and make your own Simpson’s Characters check out the official Simpson’s movie website. The avatar maker is really quite versatile.

I do think these avatars look a bit too young. We are both older, over 40, so we’d need some more wrinkles and things in our pictures. But I still think they look cute!

I was just checking out different websites and I found this really cool new blog called Best Ads Ever. It’s too funny. It has ads posted as YouTube videos and some of them are quiet funny.

It looks like it’s a brand new blog, so I’m gonna have to keep checking it out.