Sure, sure. Yeah, that's a really interesting process that we've been doing. There's a lot of backstory there too, so I probably talk a lot about it, but we have done this work on Japanese spider crab. More recently, we've been working on a California king crab. His name's Caesar. His name is Caesar, and Caesar came in to us about a year and a half ago. He was rescued by the aquarium after a collection in a trawl survey off of our coast, Caesar had a big hole in his shell that big, maybe the size of a quarter, little smaller than a quarter. And of course, that doesn't make for the best exhibit animal for us, because the folks who come or get really concerned, they're like, hey, that animal looks different than all the other animals. What's going on with it, which is great that people have that much concern. But for the employees who are taking care of the animals, you have to answer that phone call or a radio call multiple times every day to say, it's fine, it's normal. Yes, what? Anyways, so we decided we were gonna, you know, put a little patch over it to hide that hole, cover it up, so that the animal looked normal and see what happened. And so for about a year and a half, we did that, and he was looking really good. He's still alive, doing great. And more recently, he started developing some other, what we call black shell disease, in which these dark patches start to occur on their shell, and it's largely from invasion of bacteria into their shell. And crabs would often, could often, just like, molt in the wild, but as they get bigger, they do that less often. And so these lesions become significant for the animals, the infection can then get inside them. And so we've had to try and work on ways of one, preventing it from happening and trying to slow it down through things like nutrition and water quality. But it's still happening. Now we haven't solved that one yet, but in this case, he had a large area that developed on his shell, and actually one on his back, a couple on his legs. And so we would take this crab and we would anesthetize him so he goes to sleep, becomes unconscious, stops moving, and we keep him moist and wet. Luckily, they don't have to be constantly submerged in water like fish, so we have a little more flexibility there. And then we clean up the lesion. We remove the parts of the shell that are damaged and eaten away by bacteria, get back to the healthy stuff, seal it up, and then put a patch over it that looks just like his regular shell and blend it right back in. It's a pretty cool process. I certainly never planned on having to do this. It wasn't anything I trained in really, you know, experienced
