I went to the Exotic Animal Expo today with tailypo and got an awesome and big Nepenthes spectabilis. The one pitcher on it looks exactly like the Wikipedia image that I linked to. Striped peristome and speckly body. tailypo also got one, and she also got a baby Nepenthes truncata planted in a chunk of pumice. I told the vendor I paid twice what he was charging for my truncata that I got a coupla years ago, so he was selling them at a really good deal. He said that truncatas were harder to acquire for a while. Nepenthes are so addictive, I have, like four varieties now, and between tailypo and me there are five. He was also selling dirt for repotting and that was awesome, I bought two of his big bags.
I also got two hermit crabs, and both of them are boys. I haven’t named them yet. I wasn’t sure what one was for sure but it looked sorta like my crab Zombie. We got on the bus and I looked closer at him. His exoskeleton was light turquoise in some places, especially inside of the legs, and sorta bubblegum pink in other places. I was all, “Ruggies so don’t come in those colors.” They should have just one color all over, not two or three, and not so bright. I kept noticing more and more ways that he was different from Zombie. I had a new species (ecuadorean)!!! But as soon as I put him in the tank with the other crabs he went on a rampage, bullying the other crabs, breaking one of Osk’s feelers, making iPinch chirp, making Osk chirp, pushing crabs off the cork bark and off the vines, I put him in the Kritter Keeper by himself because I can’t stay up watching him overnight. Nobody minded the teeny tiny new purple pincher crab that I introduced. I hope they all eventually get along. I also hope they are healthy and won’t get sick acclimating. I also know that if he is way too aggressive there are a million people in the area who would want to adopt him immediately because of his species.
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