Time for a hermie post!

[jademermaid]

My camera died the other day so now I have a new one. You guys may be seeig some random pictures from me, sorry if that's not what you want to see, but oh well. By the way, sometimes I cut pics and sometimes I don't. Kind of depends how I feel about them. If you don't like pics, and you don't know how to use a scroll button, you might want to remove me from your friends page. :-)

So, here's my hermies.


The one on the bottom is Valentino, my first crab. He has had a rough time lately, and lost his big claw on his last shed. It was my fault, I had let their cage go without a cleaning for a bit, and then he went down for a shed. That can take weeks sometimes, and the tank got really bad. So I caved and dug him out and cleaned the tank. It was really gross, and when I dug him out, he had already lost the claw. I was pretty much resigned to losing him, but he bounced back (as much as a crab can bounce, haha). He's doing much better now, he has even started to do some climbing again.

Valentino. You can see the space where his claw should be. It should grow back, but it will take a while.:



Garbo. When I first got her several months ago, she was painfully shy. If anyone walked by the tank, she clicked back into her shell. Now she is very brave and climbs all the time!

Comments

[wytchlady.livejournal.com]

How adorable!

Love the tank decore too :)

More critter pics, garden pics, house pics of what you've accomplished!!!

[myrrhdusa.livejournal.com]

I've not accomplished anything at all lately. Though the boys and I did do some much needed deep cleaning to the bathrooms yesterday.

[wytchlady.livejournal.com]

I didn't ever even see the kitchen finished though :)

[myrrhdusa.livejournal.com]

That's because it's still not finished, lol. But the mud room is a nice pumpkin color, and there's tile in there now. Still have to paint all the trim in there. It's just so hard to tackle projects like that, when there's so many other things I'd rather be doing!

[myrrhdusa.livejournal.com]

By the way, I'm in the market for a used tank, Some where around 25" X 14, height doesn't matter, but taller is better. Please let me know if you hear of one, you always seem to know about these things!

[myrrhdusa.livejournal.com]

This size would be perfect, but I haven't even seen a new one around in this size. 30 gallon extra high

http://www.cheappetproducts.net/30_Gallon_EX_HIGH_BLACK_TANK___24_x_12_x_24_-P45012.html

[wytchlady.livejournal.com]

how about 24"L x 12"W x 16"H?

Outside the standard sizes are hard to come by on the second hand market. New, you can find anything you want ;)

[myrrhdusa.livejournal.com]

Well, that's a little bigger than what they have now. I guess it depends how much it is.

[wytchlady.livejournal.com]

Well if the family backs out on Cai's old tank then you can have it. I don't think they're going to though. They want it as a christmas gift for their autistic daughter to watch.

What you got in the 29 gallon I had brought you? It should be about 30"X12X16" or so.

I will keep my eyes open for some other bigger tanks.

Still got the beardie? We need pics!

[myrrhdusa.livejournal.com]

Still have the beardie, I will post pics soon. I have that tank, but we have no top, and it's kind of grungy, I want something a little nicer.

[wytchlady.livejournal.com]

Well the family that is taking Cai's old tank is buying a light / hood combo so I have the top that Rick made for Cai. It fits well on the 20H tank that I was telling you about. Most of the tanks I end up with have no hoods since the hoods are likely to fail and the hoods I do get usually are non working.

[myrrhdusa.livejournal.com]

Well the reasons I want the measurements I gave is that is the size of the cabinet I have the hermies on, and the edges of it curve upward, so it can't be any bigger. The long tank you gave me is too long to fit on the cabinet.

[wytchlady.livejournal.com]

Ahh :) I remember that cabinet! :)

The closest we will likely come to the how about 25"X12" in a standard size is the 24"L x 12"W x 16"H (It's a 20 gallon 'high' tank) I told you about. Cai's old tank is the same size as the one I gave you, that's why I mentioned that, they are 29 gallon tanks.

Standard tank sizes go from
20"X10" (10 gallon & 16g H)
24"X12" (15g and 20g H)
30"X12" (20L, 29g and 40g XH, the latter being somewhat rare but I have seen it availale once on the local commercial market)

Since you are looking at housing hermit crabs you could also just have glass cut in the dimensions you want (or plexi for a lighter but easier to scratch tank) and silicone (if glass) or glue (if plexi) it together. You wouldn't even need the plastic rim to reinforce it since it won't have the constant water pressure pushing out. I could help if you wanted.

You could also check out the glass cages people since they are quasi-local (about an hour west of Nashville) and build custom tanks. http://glasscages.com/?sAction=Home From the reviews I have seen I wouldn't trust any of the aquatic tanks but for a hermie tank or critter tank they should be fine. Fair warning though they supposedly have the customer service skills of bull dogs.

If you decide you want the 20g high I have let me know. Right now it hasn't been spoken for and you can have the handmade lid that was on Cai's tank that fits it as well.

[myrrhdusa.livejournal.com]

How much did you want for it and the lid?

[buruna-enu.livejournal.com]

Awww...

So cute!

I pray your hurt crabbie heals up quickly and well.