scarlet hermit crabs

My Blue Legged Hermit crab population has really lost decreased in the past 6 months. I don't know if some of them where a little bit older when I bought them or if they are fighting or maybe my Coral Banded Shrimps is killing them, but I need to get some new crabs because my sand bed is getting...

Since no one posts on my build thread anymore I thought I would start a new thread for my question. My tank currently looks like this.... My question is, At what point should I add a small clean up crew? I have diatoms everwhere. Can I add a small clean up crew? Will it be safe to add a...

I heard from the grape vine that my LFS recieved a huge shipment. So I went to check them out I got a foxface from them They labeled it a FIJI but i dont think it is yet half of the fish is one color the other half is another But not like the typical fiji the front half or 3/4 is like a metalic...

Ok so heres my story. I have a 75gal tank that has been running for 4 months now and still no fish. I have been battling hair algae,cyano,and black spots in the sand(yes I know thats toxic).......Anyways I got a new stand so that I can fit my sump under it and I was wondering if it would just be...

I am battling cyano and I was doing my daily removal of bad patches of sand. I took my hand out and smelled something funny. I smelled my hand and:bigeek:,the smell was terrible. It smelled like rotten eggs. Is this normal?

OK, its been a while, but I wanted to make a selection to what I might or can get and not just leave it up to everyone else :read: I located what I can with the free time which was available to me for I need now to move to the next step and make a fish selection for which SPS corals will be...

I just traded building a deck for a new reef tank. I got a all glass 90 gallon reef ready tank and stand. A t-5 8 bulb with moon lights. A ecosytem filter.

My first reef tank Updated specs. 75 gal aquarium 4x64watt pc actinics 2x250watt MH 12 moonlight led's coralife superskimmer 90gal 1 powerhead 600 gph 1 powerhead 1200 gph 1 300watt submersible heater 80 lbs of LR 40 lbs of LS LIVESTOCK: 1 regal tang 1 achilles tang 1 cleaner shrimp 2...

Hi everyone :) I am new to the hobby and I'm loving every second of it. I have a 12gal nano I got as a birthday present and have had it for 3 weeks! It is by Cube Masters... Anyway, I have everything setup with following so far: - 7lbs live rock - I can't remember the sand part :) - I get...

I have a 65 gallon (36x18x24) FOWLR right now. The fish I currently have 3 neon gobies, 1 watchman goby, 1 bicolor blenny and 1 royal gramma. I also have 3 peppermint shrimp, many blue leg & scarlet hermit crabs and an assortment of snails. I have a fair amount of macro algae growing and was...

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my tank is a 46 gallon bowfront, 20 gallon sump, with a 10 gallon insump fuge. coral life super skimmer. current usa 2x96 pcs. rainbow life guard quiet one 1200 return pump. i forget what brand heater. but its doing good. all custom plumbing i did myself. about 45 lbs of live rock. 1...

just bought a 65 gallon reef 30 gallon sump with 2-250mh and 2-96 atinics lots of hard corals 60+ lbs of live rock lots of hair algae how do i get rid of it? what are the best types of clean up crew to remedy this problem?

can i feed scarlet hermit crabs algae wafers? its I.S.O brand algae wafers and i use it for my fw fish but is says can be fed to marine too. will the hermits eat this? theres not much left on the live rock for them and im afraid they will starve the tank is now 9 days old, amonia has dropped to...

a few pods i thought were cute but yesterday there must have been 100 amphipods running all over the live rock. it was pretty creepy lol are there any corals that will eat amphipods? the biggest one was about 1/4", i guess he was the jumbo shrimp of the batch :funny: do sun corals eat pods? ive...

just set up feb 4th :) tank specs 10 gallon basic perfecto satellite 2x40 skilter (heard bad things i know :( ) maxi jet 400 20 lbs arag-alive west coast carribean sand 15 lbs live rock, premium fiji, tonga, and solomon 2 scarlet hermit crabs kent nano buffer A and B IO salt RO water sg...

I am selling my fully stocked 90 Gallon Reef Tank with a 45 Gallon Divided Acrylic Sump. I can no longer care for this tank due to other responsibilities and time constraints. I need someone who would like to take this setup for a great deal. Here is the setup description. 90 Gallon All-Glass...

I just recieved my first reef tank for christmas and so i am new to this reef hobby. i have some questions about my sand bed. its about 2" deep and i have 40 lbs. live aragonite bahama oolite and seeded it with 20 lbs. of aragonite pink sand. both sands are the same size, which is (as i have...