I'm sure most of you have seen stuff like this before, but I thought I'd share :ac7:

So since I thought my hermit crabs were fighting or doing something else I've added extra shells and they are constantly changing.. I had a big one in there I really thought it would be just for decoration but there is something living in it now! When he turns over I don't think he can flip...

Just received some cleaners today, I noticed one of my hermits (about the size of a pea) had little strings hanging off the back off him. Hardly visible to the naked eye. So I took a zoomed on picture of it. To me it looks like aiptasia trying to make it's way into my tank. But I would like some...

I have buy these 2 type of small hermit crabs. "Hidden Hermit Crab" and "Hawaii dwarf Hermit Crab". I don't know the latin names of them. What opportunities are there to get these two types to breeding . (not with each other, just to do be sure that my questions be misunderstood :doh: ) Is...

Hello everyone, so i have a small clean up crew (will grow in weeks to come) which include: 1 red legged hermit 2 snails (forget the type, round shell, great little cleaners) Now there is alot of, well, poop on the sand bed, will these guys clean that off or what should i get to help with that...

I have a couple electric blue hermits and I had a couple questions about them. I've been throwing some dried seaweed in my tank for them cause I read that that's what they like to eat but I haven't seen them touch it yet. I've seen them mostly picking around on my LR and going through my sand...

Hello Everyone , I am wendy and new to this forum . I am a well experienced freshwater tank hobbyist but new to saltwater. After weeks of cycling my tank , I purchased from the local pet store yesterday my first snail and hermit crap for the saltwater tank. To my surprise by the time I...

A few months ago I added half a dozen hermit crabs to my 40 breeder build. I bought one redlegged (all they had in stock) and 5 blue legged. Turns out iI only got 4 blue legged and this rogue hermit. He has grayish green legs and bright blue eyes with white stripes. He hasn't hurt my zoas nor...

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Hi everyone, I have had my biocube 29 g for 2 weeks now (with water at 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 15 nitrates, ph at 8.0), and 3 days ago I bought the first inhabitants, 3 small (about .75 inches with shell) red legged hermit crabs, from the first minute they have been going ALL over the place...

Should I remove the molted exoskeleton of the hermit from the water? Will it cause any adverse conditions?

I have been to chilton aquatics today and got a Clibanarius tricolor (blue legged hermit crab) and a beautiful condylactis anemone I know you shouldnt keep them with corals but i spent most of the day moveing and watching it till it stopped moveing around, I think its settled now. :thumbup: also...

Hello all. I have just added to my cuc today and I am wondering if it is sufficient. (I have a biocube 14). So heres what I have: 6 hermit crabs 1 emerald crab 3 mexican turbo snails (big) 1 astrea snail 1 unidentified hitchhiker snail 1 peppermint shrimp how am i doing?

Just put in a nice piece of rock with among other things about 1.5" mushroom on Saturday.. Woke up this morning an no mushroom, but in his place was a small blue leg hermit. Could he (or something else) have eaten the 'shroom? Or could it have detached a found a better home?

Working on my CUC. Algae is not a problem, but detritus is. I'd like to add some omnivorous snails. I have 3 blue-legged hermit crabs though & keep reading about hermits killing snails. I've read blue-legs are herbivores. Does this mean they'll leave the snails alone? Or will I need to get...

I found one of my hermit crabs in one of my red footed conch shells does that mean he ate him or did the conch move out and he moved in?

I came in from work today to see hermit crabs legs every where. I also noticed that the cleaner shrimp had a large red thing in its mouth. I then discovered it was a hermit crab:eek: :bigeek: Why has it turned on hermits??? Do they normally eat hermits??? WTH!!!

So my hermit crab has gone missing iv not seen him for 2/3 days I'm not sure if he has got himself stuck in my rocks should I be worried or is he just playing hide and you can't find me lol

so i added 2 hermits 2 snails to my 55gal thats a little over a month old. cycled and all. thats all thats in it at the moment as i have to make the canopy/lightfixture for it so i am holding off the rest for now.. anyway the hermits moulted, one of which is out of the shell and MIA. i have no...

So the other day I add a haitian anemone to my nano-reef(LFS recommended) that same day I went to a different LFS and bought some scarlet hermit crabs. they've been in the tank together for about three days now bought i just found out that the hermit crabs eat them. Should i take them out...