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Originally Posted by jason604
that amount of snails and crabs just seem way too overkill... i was think just like 10 hermits and 20 sails.. ive also heard that some people only go with 6 turbo snails in a 75g tank and things seem just fine... also i heard of a trick for your hermit crabs to not kill the snails is to get a bunch of empty shells n put them in the tank so the crabs can use them when they grow bigger... also do hermits really attack corals?
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It's actually not overkill if you get too few crabs and snails you would have to make up your CuC with different snails/crab or more fish both of which presents its own set of problems. Some of which might be aggressive to other invertebrates push over coral and/or rock or attack and eat other fish/coral. The package that J&L put out are full of reef safe crab and snails.
Blue hermits and red hermits are considered reef safe and will as a general rule not Touch coral they will climb all over it but not eat it.