Crazy hermit crabs

[alyak06]

This is what our crabs do every time we feed. It looks like they're fighting each others. Or this just normal crab behavior?

 

[Squishie89]

Lol trust me, that is not fighting, they are just trying to find food and/or cleaning the other crabs shell or just decided he wanted to go on top of his friend there. You will know when they are fighting. One time my zebra pulled a hermit out of his shell, and then decided he didn't like the shell anyway. Another time 2 were locked together, opening of shell to opening of shell. I had to take them out of the tank to pry them apart.

 

[spspirate]

Yeah! I think they're having a ball!

 

[ReeferBob]

One of my hermits likes to climb all over the rock wall. If I feed them while he is on the wall, he gets so excited that he falls off the wall in his scramble to get down to the food. Funny to watch!