The blue leg hermit crab then crawled out of the hole he was stuck in and started to eat so I thought everything was fine and dandy.

I checked on the tank a few minutes later and noticed the blue leg racing along the tank with the red tip standing close by. I separated them again and sure enough the red tip hermit crab was cornering the blue leg hermit crab. It sure didn’t seem it was going to be a friendly greeting with how frantic the blue leg was acting.

I now had a choice to make of how to handle this. I didn’t want to out and out kill one off but one crab was going to die if I didn’t do anything. I knew that from pure aesthetic reason the blue leg hermit was going to stay. So as of now it appears the refuge clean up crew just got a little larger with the addition of one red tip hermit crab. I am not a total bad person, I at least put in a couple of empty shells for him in his new home. Hopefully after a few molts the blue leg hermit crab will be able to hold his own and I can bring the red tip out of his current exile.