So after two days of having my new blue leg hermit crab stuck in a hole with the red tip hermit crab hanging on the end of the shell sticking out, I decided enough was enough and knocked the red tip hermit crab onto the sand.
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.