I'm feeding Mac pretty consistently one hermit per day. They're pretty big, and this seems to be plenty of food, as he isn't super active, mostly chilling in the rockwork. I assume he would be out and about more if he was hungry and not "fat and happy".
I put in the most recent hermit crab behind the rock where Mac hangs out, because I wondered whether he would hear the hermit walking/climbing/clicking around and become interested. As you can see, the hermit kind of ruined this plan by climbing up and over the rock, right into danger. Another day, another too-easy meal...
A closeup of the meal
And in case that wasn't close enough...
If I watch the videos blown up on a large screen (highly recommended), I'm able to see details way better than with the naked eyes.
This was going to be a hunting video, but Mac didn't end up being hungry. I guess hunting instinct kicked in, but then he ended up just wandering around a little.
I went down this morning and found Mac hanging upside down on the glass cover of the tank, basically occupying the 1 inch gap above the water level.
It was such a curious place to "hang out" (sorry...), but then later in the afternoon he went back there so he must like it. In fact when I moved the weight to get a good camera shot, he tried to squirt me (0:13 in the video). Maybe he was annoyed, but it seemed kind of playful. He was definitely interested in what I was doing after that.
In fact, he seemed more curious about me, behind the camera, than the food challenge that I had set up...
(He eventually ate the hermit crab, but I had to leave the lid slightly open.)
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