Crab grabbing onto other’s shell and holding on

[DragonsFly]

Upgrading to a larger space may help them to feel less compressed, but again, adding new members to an established pair or group in captivity will always cause upheavals no matter how large their habitat is. Sometimes they will re-establish new patterns of interaction and re-stabilize, sometimes you may end up with intractable problems between certain members that can only be solved by separation. Still, bigger is always better for wild animals in captivity (as long as the "bigger" habitat is still high-quality, with all the resources they need), so if you can upgrade to a bigger tank, that is always a great thing for them. Remember, even if your crabitat was as big as a whole room, it would still be a confined space for wild animals built to wander for miles every night on a whole island.

[Hollym2247]

Upgrading to a larger space may help them to feel less compressed, but again, adding new members to an established pair or group in captivity will always cause upheavals no matter how large their habitat is. Sometimes they will re-establish new patterns of interaction and re-stabilize, sometimes you may end up with intractable problems between certain members that can only be solved by separation. Still, bigger is always better for wild animals in captivity (as long as the "bigger" habitat is still high-quality, with all the resources they need), so if you can upgrade to a bigger tank, that is always a great thing for them. Remember, even if your crabitat was as big as a whole room, it would still be a confined space for wild animals built to wander for miles every night on a whole island.

They seem settled in again and clustering up like a functional colony. I’m looking into a bigger set up, but it would be so much work and space.


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[KyMart]

If there's no aggression happening, it looks most like mating behavior--Stripes trying to keep any other males from getting to Teeny. As long as Teeny is able to get food and water, I'd just let it go. And if it is mating behavior, you can congratulate yourself on having very good conditions!

Omg aww!