First Ever Blog....How Mr Pinchy Pants came to be my pet....

Ok, here goes, I have typed this thing 3 times already and deleted it all because I don't know where to start.... I live in a small town called Ararat in Rural Victoria. I had knocked off work this particular day and was pottering around my flat, waiting for my other half to knock off work (he comes over for a coffee as soon as he finishes work everyday). This particular day he walks in with a water bottle. I didnt think anything of it until he says he found a baby yabby on the road in front of a pub in one of the various little towns in our district. Do I want it? At first I was thinking, "what the hell do I want a yabby for?!" but, he was cute and tiny (smaller than the length of my thumb), so I decided to chuck him in my fish tank with my 2 zebra fish, Zebbie and RaRa.... He settled right in, getting to know his new home and climbing the various sunken ships and things that lived at the bottom of the tank....I had no idea what he ate, or if I needed to do anything in particular for him, but noticed after a couple of days that he was eating the fish food I was putting in the tank and left it at that. So, what to name the little guy ( I actually don't know what it is, if you determine gender the same way you work out what a scorpion is, it's a boy)? My 14 year old brother came over and I showed him. He was fascinated... this little yabby was climbing onto and into the sunken ship in the tank, jumping at the fish if they swam by, flying backwards at the slightest movement..... he looked so funny and full of mischief we both couldnt help but to smile at him. My brother turns to me and says, " I wanna call him Mr Pinchy Pants." and it stuck. After about 3 weeks of feeding him fish food and watching him clean the tank like the little shrimp on Finding Nemo, I was discussing with a family friend that I had a pet yabby and had no idea whether he had some nutritional requirements I had to fill, i knew that you used meat to catch yabbies, but not that they didnt actually eat meat.... and this friend said to feed him frozen peas! So, that is how it came about, a yabby, who was found on a road in front of a pub, his name is Mr Pinchy Pants and he eats peas......