It's CRAB-tastic!

I have spent several of the past 24 hours diligently researching and ultimately purchasing 3 hermit crabs. Not for myself, mind you--my taste in pets runs along mammalian lines--but for my two oldest children, and the youngest, who is getting old enough to be a tag-along in everything they do.

I scored a perfect glass tank with lid at a yard sale this weekend for 3 bucks, and after cleaning it, making a trip to the pet store, and shelling out an embarrassing additional sum for a reptile feeding dish, crab food and treats, a hideaway hut, natural sponge, cork bark, "move up" shells, sand (or "substrate" as they call it, probably to justify its inflated price), salt water conditioner, and driftwood, we now have a groovy "crabitat" and at least 2 very happy children. The crabs seem to like it too.