HCA: Hermit Crab Association

Some opinions here would be greatly appreciated!!! I purchased 3 pp's from my local petsmart 9 days ago and have had them in a 29gallon iso ever since. They've been doing LOTS of shell changes since coming home, and have 12 shells to choose from in the iso. The second day I woke up to find a naked crab (Bonkers) next to a shelled crab (Curly). After I moved Curly and dashed over to the comp, Bonkers returned to his shell. Just now I found Bonkers naked again in the fresh water pool with Curly on his shell (also in the pool)... There's another shell similar to Bonkers's in the tank and I placed Curly next to it. Bonkers returned to his shell after swimming around a bit.
My question is: What do I do now? I don't have another tank that would be suitable to iso Curly in... Should I move Bonkers and Uppity into my main crabitat early and leave Curly in the iso with some shells on his own??

Any other ideas?

Thanks!

I think you should move Bonkers and Uppity!

Thanks. I am gonna do that now.

A good way to prevent this is to give them more shells. Shell wars happen when a suitable shell is found on another crab. Which usually means the other shells aren't useful, the only way to prevent this is to make sure there are lots of suitable shells. And I mean lots. In my main tank alone I have well over 30 for 4 crabs. All similar sizes, and I have more large ones waiting elsewhere.
I hope this helps :/

Thanks for the suggestions! I've placed a large shell order at naples, and for the time being I hit all the local pet stores and some craft stores and came home with lots of suitable shells. Curly is on his own with 20 shells to choose from. Hope that helps the little guy!!

Good news! After Curly switched shells and spent 2 more days after doing so in iso, I moved him into the main tat and all went well! Everyone's getting along very well and Bonkers and Curly haven't had any negative confrontations! I'm so proud of my little babies for all getting along!!!!!!

Thanks again for everyone's advice!

glad there hasn't been any more shell trying to steal