I know!  I was completely caught off guard.  I can tell he moulted as well, he's all pale and soft.  Still, he ate, he drank, and he's moving, so it's looking good.

I'm glad he's not a junkyard crab as well, Gideon.  I wonder how many of them end up that way?

Just the ones who get caught up in "reefer" madness!

Davey was ecstatic.  He said "I knew my crab was a tough guy!"

Now if I could just get Jacques to get back into a shell....he's been sunning around naked in the isolation tank since yesterday.  He has 4 shells in there to choose from, but apparaently none are to his liking. :/

I'm feeding him some stuff I got from the pet store...and he's still quarantined.  Jacques moulted as well, and was very picky about shells...he wouldn't accept anything other than his old shell.  He did get to eat his exoskeleton though, and they've both been spending a lot of time sitting in the water dish again (which is what they did before they moulted) 

I should have seen it coming, really.  Burying themselves, sitting in the water dish a lot....next time I'll be more aware and move them into iso beforehand.  Oh, and I also read that they prefer darkness and will actually delay moulting until they can get out of the light.

You're very pretty, by the way.  I love the dark hair!