escape artist

a couple weeks ago we got a little addition to our fish tank, an adorable red clawed crab!

her name is knives chau and i love love love her!

only problem with our little crabby is that she's so shy.

she only really comes out to play at night when we turn all the lights out but i'm always searching in her hiding spots to catch a glimpse of her.

yesterday was a busy day but i tried to take a peek in the aquarium for little knives a couple times but i couldn't see her so i figured she found a new hiding spot.

later last night i found out where she'd been hiding from me.

we were about to settle down to watch some good 'ol fashion television when i see this big thing on the tile that looks all leggy and sort of like a gigantic spider so i tell Matt to get it.

Matt walks up and FREAKS OUT!

i don't mean he jumped and that was it.

i mean i have never seen Matt freak out to this extent before!

he jumped back yelling "THAT'S A CRAB! THAT'S OUR CRAB! WHY IS IT THERE?! THAT IS A CRAB NIKKI! WHAT DO WE DO?! HOW DID IT GET OUT?! THAT IS A CRAB!"

and i have never laughed so hard in my life!

i was so amused with little knives that i let her scuttle around on the floor for a while before i scooped her up and put her back with her sharky friends.

we checked our tank out and figured she's a sneaky little thing and figured out how to climb up our driftwood onto the heater and down the heater cord until she hit the floor.

i have no idea how long she was partying it up in our house before we found her but i seriously had no clue she could do that!

we moved the heater so she doesn't have access to it from the driftwood anymore but i'm still gonna be keeping an eye on her from now on since i've also read  that if red clawed crabs really want to they can swim a little bit.

i have to make sure i protect Matt's toesies from little crab claws.

he is very worried about that now.