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Hermit Fighting Or Mating?

For some reason all my Blue Leg hermits all met up in one spot and either started to fight or get thier ;) on. Just seeing if anyone knows whats going on.

Josh
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will post video later today.
 
The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club!

That's bizarre! I've seen mine go at each other before, but never in a big ole mob fight light that! LOL!
 
Is that an empty snail shell in the middle of the crowd? Looks like they are fighting over we will have a new home!!M
 
Is that an empty snail shell in the middle of the crowd? Looks like they are fighting over we will have a new home!!M

yeah i agree...i've seen nature programs where the strongest gets the best home, and as that one leaves his former home, the next strongest jumps on the just abandoned home...and so on and so forth.

To prevent this kind of organized chaos you could throw in extra snail shells, then they will all have their picks for the best home.

Or maybe they smell food....(as in each other).
 
yeah i agree...i've seen nature programs where the strongest gets the best home, and as that one leaves his former home, the next strongest jumps on the just abandoned home...and so on and so forth.

To prevent this kind of organized chaos you could throw in extra snail shells, then they will all have their picks for the best home.

Or maybe they smell food....(as in each other).

No there was a hermit in the gray one. It only went on for about 10 min or so. It's not the first time I've seen them gather. Just the first time it was a rumble. Sometimes I will have all the blue legs on one rock. Another weird thing is no other types of crab get involved. I have redleg and NJ hermits as well. Maybe the blues are the psyco's of my tank.
 
That's funny.. My blues are the docile ones in the tank.. Scarlets excluded as they are lazy and calm. My red lags do get pushy now and then, but the jersey ones.. they where insane just like that. I actually tossed all but one back into the spot I got them from because they where too rowdy. lol
 
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