Hermit crabs have distinct personality characteristics, they are curious and active. They are unique and exotic pets that require little maintenance. These crabs are usually very sociable animals, but they sometimes have conflicts with other crabs.

These creatures have soft abdomens that require protection provided by shells. In order not to generate their shells, crabs are scavengers and take over the abandoned shells they find. As these crabs grow, they need larger shells for their homes.

If you want to avoid aggression between hermit crabs, you may want to purchase similar sized crabs. Larger differences between the sizes of your crabs can lead to unnecessary fighting. When crabs fight, one may get trapped in the shell of the other.

The fight between these creatures could be due to the selection of a preferred shell. If two crabs want the same shell for their home, they will fight over it. These fights can result in the death of one or both crabs. To avoid these types of conflicts, you must provide your pets with a wide variety of shells. Select a quality shell of different sizes and shapes. Also provide shells with openings of different shapes. Select housings with different aperture sizes, which is the size of the aperture.

Another reason hermit crabs can start fighting is that they love to climb and crawl. When a crab meets another crab, it is likely to climb or crawl under it. This can disturb the crab you are crawling or crawling over and a fight could result. By providing your pet crab with rocks or other accessories to climb and crawl on, this fighting behavior can be eliminated.

It is normal crab behavior to have “push contests” or “probe fights”. Are pushing contests ways these creatures get to know each other? When crabs collide with each other, their antennae flap and their legs move. Sensor fighting is just one way these creatures smell each other. Usually this happens because crabs just don’t believe in walking around an object that they just have to climb or crawl underneath.

Stylus fights and shoving contests are harmless unless you observe one crab grabbing the other’s shell. There is a projectile fight going on when they do this and start to push the shell back and forth and try to open the shell. You can also hear the song of the crabs. This normally occurs in the wild, where wild crabs participate in shell fights.

During a shell fight, the claws of the attacking crabs dig into the shell of the defender crabs, causing the defender crab to shake it back and forth, causing the defender crab to come out of its shell. The attacking crab will pop out of its shell and take the defender’s shell. The loser will generally enter the victor’s abandoned shell. Usually this does not result in any harm to any of the hermit crabs.

Another observed crab violence is when the creatures tear each other apart or come out of their shells, resulting in the death of the crab. Sometimes the crabs dig up the molters and eat them alive! If you notice random legs in your aquarium, look at a crab inside the shell of a “victim” and note that the victim is dead in the sand or limping, then you know you have an aggressive crab in your tank. You must remove the living victims from the tank and place them in a protective area to recover. You must clean the sand or gravel and try to get it back into its shell. If it is still in its shell, provide an isolated, warm and humid area for it to recover.