Jules Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 I went to upscales and picked up a few scarlet hermits for my 20g and decided to add one to my 12g to give the Blue a helping hand. I checked on it not 5 minutes later and Mr. Blue had the poor scarlet tackled and I couldn't get it to let go. I feel so bad. I didn't realize they would do that to each other. Although, could it be because the Blue has been in there by himself for some time now? I hear of others putting different species of hermits together and they do fine. Not in this case. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Posted August 12, 2011 Author Share Posted August 12, 2011 Good news, the Scarlet Hermit is fine, they finally separated and went there separate ways, both with extremities in tact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharoleb Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 I've seen my big blue hermit do that before to other smaller ones. It looked like he was trying to break the shell when I saw it, or pull baby hermie out of it, or something. And mine has never been a sole inhabitant like yours. Maybe he's just showing him who's boss? Cleaning his shell? Glad the lil guy's ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Posted August 12, 2011 Author Share Posted August 12, 2011 LOL yeah maybe that was it, showing who is boss. It did look like he was trying to yank him out of the shell. Thanks for the reply. I am glad to hear it is normal behavior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gill Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 Hermits are pure evil. I used to love my hermits, I made sure they got lots of spectrum and even formula one on occasion. Most importantly I gave them lots and lots of shells, what did all this get me in the end? An army of battle hardened warriors with impenetrable armor, who would harass my nems until they regurgitated their dinner. I even had a fuzzy and Halloween hermit develop a taste for LPS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Posted August 14, 2011 Author Share Posted August 14, 2011 LOL I think you are right about them being pure evil. I didn't think so till I got these scarlet ones, my blue-legged hermit seems to leave everything alone, (except new comers haha) but I don't have a whole lot of corals like everyone else so that could be a huge part of it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gill Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 LOL I think you are right about them being pure evil. I didn't think so till I got these scarlet ones' date=' my blue-legged hermit seems to leave everything alone, (except new comers haha) but I don't have a whole lot of corals like everyone else so that could be a huge part of it too.[/quote'] I think the blue legs and scarlet hermits are probably the least aggressive, I had larger brown zebra hermits that would pull a blue leg right out of it's shell and eat it!!! I really liked the neon blue hermits, I had two at one time, then I came home to one of them wearing a 2.5" fighting conch shell. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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