Odd hermit

[leftme]

One of my blue legged hermit crab acts strange. It will grab another smaller hermit's shell and hold on to it for a day or so while rocking the shell back and forth every so often. The strange hermit is about double the size of all the other hermits in the tank. I don't know if it is killing the other hermits or just being strange. I want to put it in the sump, but I have 2 other posibly dangerous hitchhiker crabs down there.

Anyone have any ideas?

Clayton

[Cap'n]

It's probably killing the smaller hermits. Apparantly the blue-legged variety are quite carnivorous. I've seen the rocking motion when "Conan", my big hermit, captured his next victim and tried all angles to get the little guy out. He is now the one hermit in my "fish only" tank.

[leftme]

Thanks for the reply. He's going in the sump! Let's see how he fairs against crabs his own size, the bully!

Clayton

[marie]

Or it is a male hermit that has found a pretty female and they are doing the wild thing which is what it sounds like to me.