Well, Mac, I've had Fidds for half a year now, and this is the second time they've mated. But I've had Hermits for about a year and a month, and they have never mated (don't know if they even would

). I think that it's very rare and hard for hermits to breed in captivity.

And even harder to rear them, in a tank. Fidds are also extremely difficult to breed, not to get them to mate it seems, but to rear the young. As neither crab is born as a crab, but rather as zoea, it is even harder to rear them, unfortunately.
I was hoping to get them to mate at the begginning of summer, so I have less work to do. But as I said before, my fidds had their own opinions.

I'll posts those pics in just a sec... *opens photobucket account*