Crab Life In Crabitat

These photos were shot at midnight when I spotted these 2 hermies nibbling on the dandelion leaves. They each have a large piece of share & munching away happily, ignoring my presence and they just went on their usual business, eating, playing, communicating with each others, while I had my own business to do as well, that was taking picure and enjoying every moments they gave. If you were to give up some sleep to watch them during midnight, you would find that the crabitat is bustling with activities. Because of their nocturnal nature, watching a hermit at daytime can be a bore thing to do, either they are dozing off or staying at a location not moving. As for the dandelion leaves have been my hermies favourtie food since the day I offered to them, I observed that there was a lot of crabs poo around the next day, because they had eaten a lot of this favourite food. Besides that I've other foods in the dishes as well which they did not seem to eat as much, I guess maybe they were bored of those food already, and eventually the crazed on dandelion would fade off also if given too frequently.

This happy hermit was exercising on the decor tree when he had taken his fare share of dandelion night snack. He is the smaller crab among my 8 crabbies, and recently has changed to this babylon shell which looked a bit oversize for him to wear.Anyway he has no problem to manoeuvre through any difficult obstacles with this new "home", the good thing of babylon shell is light in weight, and the color is visually pleasing as well
This is the same hermit on the first pic, he came upon face to face and chatted with his buddy, as if telling him that he had a good meal and wanted to share this.

Somtimes this kind of behaviour can be quite interesting to watch, many times they would wag their antenanes, and a little bit of harmless sparring would go on. This behaviour will be seen frequently when new crabs are being added to the set up. It is a pecking order in the crabbies colony and eventually a stronger crab will emerge as dominance, then on they would settle down for a peaceful crab life in the crabitat