Hermit crabs
 

Will different types of hermit crabs fight with each other?? In my reef I have blue legged hermits and white and brown legged ones. This evening I saw a white and brown hermit munching on the remains of a blue leg. Hopefully the blue leg died naturally but does anyone know if different breeds of hermits would fight each other??? I know that sometimes they will over shells but should I be worried?

Hermits will fight. I've had zebra's (which I think are your brown & white legged ones) attack each other & my blues. Now just stick with Neon blues which I bought from OA. Keep plenty of spare shells around & that may help reduce aggression due to competition for homes. Also, if the hermits are the same size, that also helps. Usually my problems started when a big one picked on a little one.

JME

Anthony

Only keep blue-leg, red-leg, scarlet, and neon-blue hermits. Those zebras kill snails and other hermits. I have 1 zebra that has done this already. He took over the snail shell so I caught him red handed. :)

Thanks for the help guys. Damn this sucks I've got quite a few zebras in my tank ARRGGHH!!!.

My snails to have fallen victimto my zebras :evil:

I don't know this for a fact, but I've heard it said that scarlets are very unagressive... keep to the mselves fo the most part. I've also heard that Blue legs are quite agressive.

This is also what I've noticed in the past.

My Zebras haven't even looked at my snails...

hey, nice creepy avatar! :biggrin: got any live fish? :mrgreen:

scarlet reef hermits are the most peaceful - they scrap a little but haven't killed one another at all, or any snails - in over 2 years.

lol. yup. that Cardinal was my first fatality, lost 2 of them. I also lost 2 cleaner shrimp. damn Threadfin butterfly :2gunfire:

:mrgreen: