Big crab picking on little crab with missing limbs!

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Big crab picking on little crab with missing limbs!

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Mr. Crabs is bulling one of my new hermies, and she doesn't even have a big left claw! She's a third of the size of him. I put him in isolation, because that's just plain unfair. I was furious when I saw that he would do that to her. :@
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Re: Big crab picking on little crab with missing limbs!

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There's going to be feeler fights and some bullying in the tanks. There's going to be an alpha crab and that's normal.
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Yeah. It's usually Xena. I think she backed down from it, because she hasn't bothered any of the new ones, and the new ones are all female. I found out that Xena doesn't really like other females when I put Calypso in. Xena's molting now though, so it could have just been that. He hasn't don't it again yet, so that's good.
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are they new? try bathing them together, this almost always works for me when some are fighting each other.
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I tried that... but it didn't work. They're separated now though.
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Re: Big crab picking on little crab with missing limbs!

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but mine was different. my big one actually ate my little one. limbs where being eaten and strip from its shell. whats happening in here!!!
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Oh my! 8| I have no clue why he would do that...
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