Hermit Care……

Like all pets need care and cleaning.

So the hermits are getting playground sand .And kids help.
Until I go to the beach and get it there this weekend.

We have 15 hermit crabs, The Gladiator, Busta, the Kitty, Ernie, Bert and an asortment of others Tina, ike, and Herman. One of the best escaped and died, Little [...]

We *luv* our Hermits

Well look what you can find on-line. A pretty good picture of the inner workings of the hermit crab.
Decapod crustaceans…..
“Decapoda” from Ernst Haeckel’s Artforms of Nature, 1904

We started *crabbing* last year with 12 mail away hermit crabs that came with the Houghton Mifflin science pilot in a coupon and then the 3 we “bought” from [...]

Meet Busta and the Kitty

Tomorrow my class gets a big surprise.
New hermit crab environment and two new crabs, the Hello Kitty and the Busta who is a bit of a giant!

What Are We Going To Learn from 15 Hermit Crabs? A Dozen in a Box for our Science Investigations

Friday among the MANY things going on (including a great vaudeville show) we were introduced to our 12 new hermit crabs. Now we have 15! Since they like company, it was fun to watch them run around their cage.
If ONLY the teacher didn’t have a herniated disk. It’s really, really impossible.
Here’s a video to see [...]