Fire shrimp eating hermit crabs

[dr.ben]

So I have a new pair of the Fire Shrimp, and I am feeding them frozen mysis/brine shrimp every day, but they are also eating some of my hermits! The shrimp are doing great, already had a clean molt, but I love my hermits. Anyone else have this problem?

Any suggestions?

 

[Ligershark]

This may sound silly but are you sure its eating your hermits and not cleaning/eating stuff off they're shells?

 

[dr.ben]

Yes the entire crab body is out and desiccated far from any shell and I’ve watched it munch on the carcass...

 

[ncaldwell]

Did you see it pull a hermit out of its shell? I sometimes get hermit crab melts that look just like a dead hermit floating around

 

[dr.ben]

No I only saw the body. But multiple shells are empty so it does seem that they are being eaten. Maybe while searching for new shells?

 

[Jusha]

This also happened to me, one of my scarlet hermit's body have been carried around by my cleaner and fire shrimp. Really weird.

 

[cristata.reef]

Was it the entire body (like tail and all?). Sometimes when my hermits molt my cleaner shrimp will play with the sheds