Something exciting just happened! It's 5 pm here in California and still light out. I have both lights on DaVinci's tank and haven't seen him since day before yesterday. I decided to feed the shore shrimp living in the tank, so I got a small amount of flake food and mixed it in with the water. Before I was done DaVinci suddenly popped out of a barnacle near my hand and made me actually jump! He'd been using a shell sitting on the sand as a den, so I didn't expect to see him up there! He just sat there on top of the barnacle looking at me! I quickly got a frozen fiddler out and thawed it. When I got back to tank he was still there. I put it on the end of a stick and slowly moved it towards him. When it got close, he moved into a barnacle hole. I stuffed the crab gently into the hole and he immediately took it! He is now sitting there eating it right in front of me!
So, I had noticed that Orange would stick an arm out of her den often when I was feeding red flake food to the shore shrimp. Orange never came out, but I definitely think that DaVinci was reacting to the flake food. The last two times I have fed him, I fed the shrimp first, thinking that it might be a good signal for him. I think it worked! The other times, I put the crab just inside the shell he's been using as a den. When I checked back it would be gone.
I am so surprised that he came all the way out and in all the lighting too! I only have the bright light on for about 5 hours each day. His light has moon lights that are on 24/7. I turn on the blue light at 7am and the white light at noon. Then the white light goes off at 5pm and the blue goes off at about 7pm.
Am going to post the pic I took. It's not that great, but it does show him just to the right of the blue lego. His eyes are kind of sticking up! You can also see one of his arms right below his eyes.
OK "D", here goes attempt #2 at posting a pic correctly!!
OK, am having trouble finding where to change a zip to a jpg!
That's what I did last time! Will post pic as soon as I figure it out!!