R.I.P. squatty

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I found our favourite aquarium inhabitant Squatty the Squat lobster dead this week, which was genuinely sad! (We had a false alarm a month back finding some legs in one corner and its carapace in another but it turned out that that was just moulting.) This is the only Common squat lobster Galathea squamifera individual I have seen when rock pooling and it did very well in the aquarium for half a year. It was quite shy, although it could wave its arms fiercely at any prawn of blenny passing by. It was also quite clumsy, often falling over backwards when attempting to scale a rock. Two close-ups:

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An unceremonious end: Cushion stars Asterina gibbosa and a Common prawn Palaemon serratus recycling Squatty:

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