Blue leg size

[EQCM2B]

Does anyone know how large a blue leg hermit crab gets? I have one that is now carrying a shell about the size of a ping pong ball or larger and his legs are not blue either. All of my hermits (5 in all ) are getting quite large. Do they also lose their blue legs as they get older or do I need to remove these guys from my tank?

[graphixx]

The blue leg (Clibanarius tricolor) only gets maybe an inch across the leg span. You may have some other type of juvenile hermit in the tank. I would keep an eye on him. if they start to do something wrong then I would get them out of there

[EQCM2B]

Do blue legs loose their blue and turn to yellow legs as they mature? If not I may have a problem.

[dakar]

Not that I have ever seen or heard of....

[EQCM2B]

Looks like I might have to go crabbing. At least three of the five or six do not have blue legs. Thanks for the help.

[graphixx]

now are they harming stuff in the tank???? I would say and this is just me. I would let them stay till you see signs of them doing something bad. but if they are misbehaving then yes your right in removing them