Toodles

A while ago, we thought our crab Toodles had died because we haven’t seen her for a long time. When I woke up for school one morning, I looked into our tank and saw Toodles’ empty shell. So then I was sure she had died.

Then 2 weeks later, late at night, my mom woke me up and showed me that Toodles was up and climbing the net without a shell! We were surprised to know that Toodles had survived 2 whole weeks without a shell underground. Later that night, she found a new brown and yellow shell, then went for a soak in the water.

When she came up, we saw that she was missing 2 legs on one side. She was acting kind of sick for a few days, so we fed her some honey and then she got very active, climbing all over the net again.

Before we knew it, she was back to her old self and she is getting along great with all the other crabs. So far, I think she likes having company with her and she has made great friends with two of our crabs.  Ever since Toodles came back she has looked smaller to me because I haven’t seen her in a long time.

A month later, Toodles dug back down under the sand for another molt. Hopefully, she’ll grow back her missing legs and come back with a shell this time.