Lobster in my pocket...

[miss_squiddy]

This is Claude. Look how cute and ikkle he is. Hooray!

Comments

[vi-et-animo.livejournal.com]

Aww! He is tiny! How big will he grow?

[miss_squiddy]

Up to 4½ feet. Oh no!

[vi-et-animo.livejournal.com]

?!?! That's a terrifying prospect! He'd overthrow the human race! :O

[miss_squiddy]

Heeheehee! It'll take him 50 years and it depends on loads of different factors so I'm not too worried about that.

[felledagain.livejournal.com]

Paella for tea for me, wonder if any of his relatives will be in it

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

Cute! I will post a photo of one of his relatives I saw in Bonaire, a Spanish Slipper Lobster. It was humungous!

[miss_squiddy]

Cool!

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

Here y'go:

[miss_squiddy]

That's a very odd looking thing indeed.

[http://users.livejournal.com/princess-pie-/]

so cute! i want one! is he yours? is that a piece of lime next to his little self?

[miss_squiddy]

Yep - he's mine. And that's cucumber so about the same size.

[http://users.livejournal.com/princess-pie-/]

Fantastic! I want one! How big is the tank your keeping him in? Where did you get him from?

[miss_squiddy]

He's in the spare tank at the moment which isn't very big - I expect I'll be moving him into the biggest tank I can find space for in a couple of months.

He actually came from Pets at Home (ick) as a few branches are trialling exotic species at the moment but we have seen marine lobsters in other places. A marine set up costs close to £500 though so freshwater is best.

[faggy-no-oats.livejournal.com]

Squeee! i didn't know they ate cucumber, I obviously haven't revised hard enough.

[miss_squiddy]

We decided to try it out because the fish and snails all love it but he wasn't especially interested and only nibbled off a little bit. Apparently they really like watercress though so I'm going to try that next.

[pleb.livejournal.com]

Awesome. How long do they live?

[pleb.livejournal.com]

Er...blimey. Up to fifty years old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_lobster

[dewi-sant.livejournal.com]

Boil him alive!

[miss_squiddy]

He's barely a snack!

[oneshallstand.livejournal.com]

Cool. You've got lobster.

[queen-est.livejournal.com]

Wow - he's way cool xxx