We caught a tiny Blue Crab in our cast net. Baby was the size of a quarter.
We took him home and raised him in our aquarium.
When he was about a year old and about 4-5 inches across, we could not keep him in the tank, even though it had a heavy light and a lid.
Once we found him all the way in back of the house in a bedroom up against the wall under a dresser.
We had talked to a friend’s son who was a marine biologist and he told us to look in the place of our home that was nearest to the ocean, and that exactly where he was. We lived about 4 miles from the ocean at the time.
We finally took him out to the bay and set him free, but he never calls and never writes.........
A friend gave me a small stone crab for my tank. I got up the next morning and the little bugger had undermined all my coral rock. It could have easily broken the glass on my 75 gallon saltwater tank. Imagine 75 gallons of water and fish dumped on your floor.
I returned him to the ocean.
Stone crabs are delicious with melted butter and some lemon juice.
That is a cool story.
Absolutely fascinating! Great story.
The stuff we don’t know.
Love it! Thanks.