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spring 2006 semester started today. i am psyched. its weird, it seems like one of my new professors is a choad face and another new one is an extremely happy go lucky type of person. we shall see.
in other news, sarah and i installed a customized plexi-glass lid for our hermit crab terrarium this weekend. its only custom because we had it cut at lowe's and then drilled four holes in it to set some leather straps for handles. it is definitely stylish. We got plexi-glass instead of screen to help trap moisture. humidity is more or less how crabs breathe...they have gills not lungs, so if it is too dry, they will die. let me say, it is working quite well as i came home after work and there was condensation on the sides of the tank, which is a good thing. now then, hopefully no bastard insects decide that they like the warm humid air as well. today i introduced a new water dish containing salt water(note, if you are reading this, it isn't like water with table salt - table salt has iodine that will kill the crabs). I also reorganized their environment a great deal and created an almost completely underground(which may or may not be completely covered if i get some more calci-sand) cave and a coconut fiber backdrop for them to climb on. my crab, igor, is all about it. he hasn't gotten off of it since i put it in...he just keeps climbing to the top and then across to the other side and back again. sarah's crab, bruce, is a million times more interested in the 3/4 underground cave. he hasn't gotten out since he discovered it. soooo...not that any of you care, but you know, just so you know, hermit crabs are incredible if you treat them all well and proper. these guys have it made here...at least...i think they do.
next project? get more sand and possibly look into building a completely custom tank and stand. it shouldn't be all that difficult - just have 5 equal sized pieces of glass, a pentagon shaped piece of glass(not too sure about this part of it, can hardware stores cut glass into shapes?), an equally sized piece of plexi-glass fit with handles, and then build a wooden stand with drawers to hold their food and stuff. and then some neat day lights and moon lights. hmmn....this will be expensive, but i want to do it, so...it will just have to wait.
anyway, i have wasted enough of everybodys time, its off to do some text book reading. cheers.
in other news, sarah and i installed a customized plexi-glass lid for our hermit crab terrarium this weekend. its only custom because we had it cut at lowe's and then drilled four holes in it to set some leather straps for handles. it is definitely stylish. We got plexi-glass instead of screen to help trap moisture. humidity is more or less how crabs breathe...they have gills not lungs, so if it is too dry, they will die. let me say, it is working quite well as i came home after work and there was condensation on the sides of the tank, which is a good thing. now then, hopefully no bastard insects decide that they like the warm humid air as well. today i introduced a new water dish containing salt water(note, if you are reading this, it isn't like water with table salt - table salt has iodine that will kill the crabs). I also reorganized their environment a great deal and created an almost completely underground(which may or may not be completely covered if i get some more calci-sand) cave and a coconut fiber backdrop for them to climb on. my crab, igor, is all about it. he hasn't gotten off of it since i put it in...he just keeps climbing to the top and then across to the other side and back again. sarah's crab, bruce, is a million times more interested in the 3/4 underground cave. he hasn't gotten out since he discovered it. soooo...not that any of you care, but you know, just so you know, hermit crabs are incredible if you treat them all well and proper. these guys have it made here...at least...i think they do.
next project? get more sand and possibly look into building a completely custom tank and stand. it shouldn't be all that difficult - just have 5 equal sized pieces of glass, a pentagon shaped piece of glass(not too sure about this part of it, can hardware stores cut glass into shapes?), an equally sized piece of plexi-glass fit with handles, and then build a wooden stand with drawers to hold their food and stuff. and then some neat day lights and moon lights. hmmn....this will be expensive, but i want to do it, so...it will just have to wait.
anyway, i have wasted enough of everybodys time, its off to do some text book reading. cheers.