Hi guys. I’m sure some of you guys have come across accounts like Howie and Winnie the crabs, as well as other pet crab accounts on the Internet. Sorry if I didn’t use the right flare, but this has been bothering me for a couple days now and I’m wondering if anybody else is seeing this.

Recently, an account called Crip the Crab was created on Instagram. A woman is claiming she found a land crab outside with only its claws, no legs, so he could not move. She has been rehabbing him for the last couple of weeks.

This woman already has Meta accounts, Ko-Fi, X, Threads, Tiktok, and Youtube set up for this crab. She also claims she is writing a children’s book about him. His IG account was created literally just this month. Maybe I’m just thinking too hard about this, but I feel like I smell a scam. There’s likely no real way to know if she injured Crip herself, but even if she didn’t, this whole race to monetize this crab within a couple of weeks of finding him just feels very weird. I dunno. Has anyone else seen this?

The chaos of a false crab (anomuran) ensues.

Port Aransas, TX in late April. About a mile out from the beach on the Jetty. INat said Sally Lightfoot crab (grapsus grapsus) but it seems they are mostly on the west coast.

Is Blue or Dungeness crab better?
We’ve lived in Maryland for the last 7 years. My kids are 8 and 10.
We all agree, including my husband that blue crab is better. It tastes sweeter.
We’ve got our fresh crab blue from Annapolis, Maryland and our Dungeness crab from San Diego, California.
Are we just getting it from the wrong area or is blue crab just better?
Note: my 8 year old misses the hammer that you would typically get in Maryland 😂

anyone need crabs yo

It is interesting 🤔

I think they're eat everything lol

I caught it at April

It lost one of its claws when it molted.

The gray crab is Helice tientsiensis

The red crab is Tubuca arcuata

It is eating mealworm

Cancer is like a crab in latin right? 🦀🦀🦀

Molt + After + Before!! (Can someone remind me her scientific name? I need to write it down so I stop forgetting 😅)