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Wow! I am so excited 
another O. vulgaris.
I need to get online more often, been very crazy here. Diablo never ate hermits as far as I can tell but absolutely loves live crabs. His main diet are frozen shrimps but relishes the occasional scallop, never tried any type of fish. I have never hand fed, if you have read my journal I use floating plastic childerens squirty toys with zip ties. Feeding sticks are useless, he crawls out of the tank, squirts, splashes then I have to let go. It is very difficult to retrive later on, just not practicle. There is a toothbrush (he stole from me) wedged in his den, been there for weeks, every time I try to grab it he, he grabs it, impossible! Diablo likes floating toys opposed to sinking ones. He plays with them all the time. Occasionally he will give one a good squeeze and it fills with water, and sinks, then he ignores it. He has grown strong. The other day he smashed his ping pong ball, little stinker.
As time has gone on, Diablo is out more in the daytime than night. Hopefully yours will follow suit. Now he is out begging for food around 8/9am. I see him out throughout the day. He is out after lights off while we are up, looking for attention or being nosey. After we retire, he is not out much at all. I know because we installed motion activated security cameras. I have one on his tank, his movements are all recorded, very cool.
I wanted to add, since I missed all the early posts...Horns were the first thing I noticed that were different from O. briareus. I found it funny you noticed them too. We thought it was so cool, my son thought it made him look like a devil and that is where the name came from.
another O. vulgaris.I need to get online more often, been very crazy here. Diablo never ate hermits as far as I can tell but absolutely loves live crabs. His main diet are frozen shrimps but relishes the occasional scallop, never tried any type of fish. I have never hand fed, if you have read my journal I use floating plastic childerens squirty toys with zip ties. Feeding sticks are useless, he crawls out of the tank, squirts, splashes then I have to let go. It is very difficult to retrive later on, just not practicle. There is a toothbrush (he stole from me) wedged in his den, been there for weeks, every time I try to grab it he, he grabs it, impossible! Diablo likes floating toys opposed to sinking ones. He plays with them all the time. Occasionally he will give one a good squeeze and it fills with water, and sinks, then he ignores it. He has grown strong. The other day he smashed his ping pong ball, little stinker.
As time has gone on, Diablo is out more in the daytime than night. Hopefully yours will follow suit. Now he is out begging for food around 8/9am. I see him out throughout the day. He is out after lights off while we are up, looking for attention or being nosey. After we retire, he is not out much at all. I know because we installed motion activated security cameras. I have one on his tank, his movements are all recorded, very cool.
I wanted to add, since I missed all the early posts...Horns were the first thing I noticed that were different from O. briareus. I found it funny you noticed them too. We thought it was so cool, my son thought it made him look like a devil and that is where the name came from.
