Two nights ago, Gloria, Susanna’s hermit crab, was trying to climb out of the cage that she shares with 2 other hermit crabs! In the winter, we install a lightbulb in the cage for heat. When we take it out, it leaves a hole big enough for a crab to climb out of. However, it is in the center of the cage, so it is hard for the crabs to reach it. Gloria was hanging upside down on it when I came downstairs after getting ready for bed.My dad was already there, trying to pull her off, but she wouldn’t budge. So my dad flipped the lid upside down on the windowsill, thereby making Gloria right side up, and also took all the shells, crabs,and all of the fixings in the cage out too so that he could change the sand (this is how you clean a crab cage; by changing the sand, which is putting new sand into the habitat and taking out the old sand.) Of course he suspected that as soon as he went away to get sand, Gloria would start crawling away. So he told me to watch her and also to put the other two crabs, Mary Beth II and Shelly, in a small container so that he didn’t pour sand on them. I got the job of doing this. As soon as he went into the garage to get the sand, Gloria started crawling away. Quickly, I trapped her by putting the crab “hut” (an imitation of half of a small coconut which the crabs go into for shade, but which can be easily picked up by humans) over her and then blocking the entrance with a thing that the crabs climb on. Finally, she let go of the lid. I then grabbed her and put her in the container with the two other crabs. Done! But it was fun to watch the crabs as, finally, they were released into their new habitat. We (my dad and I) put the hut and the things to climb on back inside, along with the shells that they move into. The crabs scampered around until I went to bed, investigating all their surroundings. Yesterday they were running around again. It is really very amusing to watch them run around, over each other, over the shells, over the hut, climbing on their things that are made for that very purpose (they are made of wood, I don’t know what to call them!), and running around very fast.