Calcinus Sp. (Orange Hermit Crab)

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• Insert Date: 5 May 2011
  

At our regular aquarium shop I bought 2 small hermit crabs which I don’t know the exact species of yet. One of them will be cleaning the fragtank and the other is running around in the sump in the life rock area.



And a nice video of him running around:

Bought 4 new hermit crabs yesterday, 3 black ones and a orange one like I bought the day before. One black and the Orange one moved into the Red Sea Max, another black one moved into the frag/crab tank and the last one moved into the sump.

His tankmate already had a hard time. While this one has no problems with the mud crab, the new one got harassed right away. And also with the introduction of the second crab he immidiatly got bullied this morning. I now placed a frozen fish in it that I normally feed to the anemone, hopefully the crabs will take that for dinner instead of my little hermit.

Here is a movie of the orange hermit meeting the new black hermit


Also the orange hermit likes going into the frag part of the tank, he is able to fit through the holes but in the following movie he tried it another way.

Saw him moving around again Tuesday

This little hermit is still running around