Check this guy out!!!

ALBERTA REEF · #1 09-03-2009, 02:56 AM

So I have been meaning to start a thread on this Guy. But first the story about him. My friend has bought two this guys thinking that they would handle his long hair alge problem. He was wrong. they distroyed his tank ate everything but the hair alge. Then he moved them in a tank of there own for awhile. He got bore of them. So he asked me if I would take them. I said yes Knowing what they are.I saw them at the LFS a month before. I was planning to start a weird speices tank. Everything was good for a month until the smaller one attacked the bigger one when it was moulting. I mean distroyed him one leg and a claw. The one I have left has moulted at least 6 time. He is bigger then a baseball and small them a soft ball. His a Red Hermit Crab. More ornge the red. It may reach the size of an adult human fist with an appetite to match. I feed him a shrimp or two from the local supper market. so here he is!

So what do everyone think?

lobsterboy · #2 09-03-2009, 03:08 AM

that is one big hermit.

i have crabs · #3 09-03-2009, 03:51 AM

heres mine,

hes a bit over 5 years old, i usually feed him pellets but also toss in chunks of shrimp or whatever i have around, i also use him to clean up my xenia lol, out of the tens of thousands ive spent everyone loves the crab the most, i had him in a 67g tank for the last couple years, hes is now in a 50g section of a sump and is soon gonna be moved to a giant sandbed tank which will probably be in the 77-120g range, hes the best sandbed mixer ever.
ive tried keeping things with him over the years but they dont last long, the only thing he didnt bother chasing were cromis but i was scared he would eventually get them at night while they hid in the rocks,hes about the size of a softball and i actually have alot of trouble finding shells but hes done growing now i think he hasnt really grown in the last 2 years

BullDog · #4 09-03-2009, 03:51 AM

He's quite cool looking! What size of tank is that?
I like his shell by the way

ALBERTA REEF · #5 09-03-2009, 04:03 AM

i have crabs, nice one. I find the best place for shells is Michaels. I my guy is in a 10 gallon tank.

i have crabs · #6 09-03-2009, 04:20 AM

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Originally Posted by ALBERTA REEF

i have crabs, nice one. I find the best place for shells is Michaels. .

i think thats where i got most of them actually, even the biggest ones they usually have are just barly big enough.

RuGlu6 · #7 09-03-2009, 11:29 AM

Try macro mode on your camera... close up focusing.
cool critter though.

vic622 · #8 09-03-2009, 12:15 PM

I sure hope my cleanup-crew hermits don't decide to get this big