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Originally Posted by mike31154
This brings me to my latest addition, a White Spotted Hermit Crab, cringe... This guy is a fair size and apparently not entirely reef safe. Probably not recommended for most tanks, but he can dig a mean hole and spends 90% of his time stirring around in the substrate. It's the other 10% that poses potential problems. I've been keeping a close eye on him since I do have a number of corals I don't want him messing around with and so far so good in that regard. I'm fairly sure he's the culprit in the disappearance of my sand sifting starfish since I observed him tearing away at it on more than one occasion. I figure one or two more molts and he's gonna have to go since he'll just be too big & destructive. Too bad since he's colourful & highly entertaining to watch. Leaps off tall live rock, faster than a speeding Cerith, smarter than a Horseshoe crab.... Then I'll just have to stir the sand myself.
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i have one that lives alone in a 67g tank the only thing he hasnt tryed to destroy was green cromis which where to fast for him forget about reef safe in any kind of way he will kill all corals, inverts and fish also mine is bigger than a baseball and got that way quick although he hasnt got any bigger in the last 2-3 years prefect animal for stirring the sand in a large fuge or remote deep sand bed but dosnt play well with others