Had this electric blue hermit crab in my old 55 gallon tank. He's getting pretty big (4" shell) and I'm wondering if he's going to kill other tankmates now that he's in a 10g nano. I really like him, and I've never seen him kill a snail or fish, but the lfs told me he is likely to do so in...

<--Nick We have a green hair algae problem in our seahorse tank. Last weekend, we went on all the boards looking for a solution that is safe for our horses... We found "Halloween Hermits" (AKA Ciliopagurus strigatus) to have an appitite for the algea we had, and they were small enough to...

Does anyone know if any of the lfs in jax have or will have any banded/blackfooted trochus, zebra hermits, electric blue hermits, or super tonga nassarius snails? I may be looking to pick up a few of each on my trip to jax for the meeting.

Hey gang, I'm planning to move out of the area (hopefully to LA:wavey:) sometime soon, so I need to start thinking about selling my tank. I have a Finnex 30 Gallon tank. This tank has a back area with a protein skimmer and a fuge. I have 40 pounds of live sand, with about 3 inches of sand in...

Since I was a small child, I have always had pets. Whether it was a dog, stray cat, baby squirl, injured bird, lizard, turtle. snake, aquarium, or just about any animal that I could keep. I have also had an aquarium set up constantly since I was 4 years old. Definately not going to share how...

i did some reading on strawberry hermit crabs. most of the information i have found says they are land hermits that like saltwater ponds. what would be a good large hermit crab? i am thinking about building a hermit crab aquarium. thats all thats going in. sand, live rock, and several large...

For a bunch of reasons (some beyond my control), I am buying "cured" live rock at the LFS today. It's been in their tank for a month under halides and looks great. I will be adding it to a new 30 gallon tank that has been running with just saltwater for a week. I think I'll go about 3/4 fiji and...

If there's any group orders going in the near future for snails/crabs could someone PM me? I don't have access to the member forums any more so I can't really see when things are going on. Thanks.

well i know what i need to do, however its not giving me the results i want! well 10 gal display, 20 gal volume. coralife 65 super skimmer. tiny fuge of chaeto (regrown from two strands). lots of live rock and live sand mixed with crushed coral (one mistake i made in my early days. tank...

sorry if this is the wrong thread but i have dark green slim on my rocks. i can get if off with a turkey baster(sp) but is there something that eats it.

petco has these big ugly tan hermit crabs, there about the size of a golf ball. of course no one knows anything in that store whether or not its reef safe etc. does anyone have a clue what these are and if they are reef safe? they were in the saltwater tanks with damsels. they appeared to have a...

Hi all... I am just looking for some thoughts on what I need as a cleaning crew in my 125 gal reef (I say reef, but I only have some shrooms, a Xenia and Zoa). Oh...I already have 3 Astrea's, 2 bumblebee's, 1 cleaner shrimp (big guy) and my fish load is 1 - 3" Foxface, 2 - medium Perc's, 1 -...

Im very excited aboutt my tank .. so far i have it running for 4 days now .. things are looking good its a 20 gallon tank .. i got liverock bedding and i also got 3 pieces of live rock so far .. one of the peicess looked like it had nothing on it in the lfs but when i put it in my tank i noticed...

hey everyone, in an effort to be sure that i have not/ am not doing anything else stupid, i'm asking for some advice. I have intentions of moving this tank in the direction of corals in the upcoming weeks, and before i do anything i want to make sure that i do it right. So to do that i am...

Before I'm out for the night, I want to ask why people think this hobby is so addicting. Now that I think about it, I'm a person that likes to collect things, hell, I have coin, stamp, book, model, cd, movie, bobblehead, and shotglass collections but never actually work on them day to day like...

Hello everyone, I recently made the switch from freshwater cichlds into the world of saltwater. Unfortunately everything i know about freshwater is of no use to me anymore. So in an effort to not kill any of my precious new pets, I'm hoping you guys can help me out. Firstly, i just...

hello i am new here and just wanted to say hello and hope to be of some help to people. steve

I have an electric blue hermit in a 2.5g nano. Would there be any reason that it would loose a claw? Other than coral, his tank mate is a snail. He hasn't moved from the same spot in 2 days. Should I move him into a different tank? I had an ammonia spike from a dead snail. I am doing water...

Ok i love inverts more than fish, some people say i am crazy but i like the creepy crawly things in my tank. Right now i have some blue leg hermits, a serpent star, many Astraea snails, Feather duster, coral banded shrimp. What other inverts would be good to add to my 72gallon reef? Right...

For plans of getting fish i want: 1 Kaudren's Cardinal, 1 Ocellaris Clownfish, 1 bicolor blenny, and 1 Clown Goby. I was also thinking about getting (liveaquaria says that it's easy to take care of and peaceful) a Pincushion Urchin aka Blue Tuxedo I also want an Electric Blue Hermit Crab maybe 2...