It seems that there has been some confusion

Jun 11, 2004

It seems that there has been some confusion as to why we named the hermit crabs “Otto” and “Ken”. Though there are character named Otto and Ken in the movie A Fish Called Wanda that is not why we named them Ken and Otto.
Ken is one of our daughter’s favorite names, and has been since she could talk. So she named the Crab, well… Ken.
Otto is short for Doctor Otto Octavius, Doc Oc of Spider-Man fame. Because when the lady went to pick him up, he splayed his legs out like the like the scene from the new movie. It was too appropriate and I couldn’t help myself.
We even have names picked out for the next set of crabs we get. Zoidberg and Frankenstein. I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out why. Whoot whoo toot toot.