For this week's update, I've decided to focus on our decorator since its appearance has been changing.
Decorator crabs like to cover themselves with plants for camouflage. Our decorator crab does this too, and over the past month, it's been adding things to its shell.
This is how it looked two weeks ago. It had molted recently, so its shell was uncovered.
The following week, it put on some kelp. When my coworker saw this, she added some red algae to the tank, and a week later ...
... it put the algae on its legs.
We have other decorator crabs too, like juveniles and another adult. Here is a picture of its disguise:
Also, here's an old molt that we preserved. The crab was much smaller back then ...
I hope you enjoyed this update. Next week, I'll discuss one of our newer exhibits.
-Kamran
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