Orange Knuckle with Blue Knuckle

[ozy]

Hi, I used to have 2 blue knuckle in my invert tanks, and everything is fine. I recently acquired 2 orange knuckle and 1 of my blue knuckle seems to be on steriods now. It keeps moving around the tank and sometimes, it will lock in an embrace with 1 of the orange knuckle.

I am worried that the blue knuckle is attacking the orange knuckle, should I be concerned?

[rockfish]

i got a feeling the blue knukle is trying to snatch the shell from the orange.. try to put a few bigger shell in the tank .. maybe that will stop it ..

[tineng]

i have 1 orange and 1 blue....they are about the same size, both seems to be doing fine for the past 6 months....

i have not experiences in any agression between the 2, but i think if you place some empty shells that are slightly larger around the tank it would help....its always easy to occupy a empty shell then to try to fight it out with one another...

[iewnehz]

my blue kill my snail for shell..

so better put some empty shells in the tank

[ozy]

Yup, you guys are right. Now my blue and orange knuckles have exchanged shells...

Lucky no casualties.

[rockfish]

giving more shell can help stop snail killings too ..

[Achilles Tang]

What's a knuckle?

[bubble_gum]

a hermit crab