HARAKIRI !!! The tale of the suicidal invertibrates

[SAMSHUNG]

Is there anything I can do to mitigate them going cannibal? Keeping them well fed and providing extra homes perhaps?

[Wingin It]

i've done both, given extra shells and make sure they get enough to eat, but I think they do it for sport or some kind of hermit crab ego thing.

[naesco]

Originally Posted by SAMSHUNG

Is there anything I can do to mitigate them going cannibal? Keeping them well fed and providing extra homes perhaps?

Yes, return them Hermits are predators of all the neat little critters that feed your coral and small fish.
Keep one cause they are cool to watch.

Run if a LFS asks you about 'clean up crew'