Hermit crabs

[EmilyB]

My favorites are my hallowe'en hermits - I got them from Sam Wong quite a long time ago. They are NOT reef safe, (talk about chasing other hermits at high speed ) but have managed to evade a trigger for hmm, more than a year I think isn't it Sam ?

I can only watch them at nite when they come out. They wear huge turbo shells.

I like the scarlets, I did put into the reef a few small blue legs again, but they just hang out at the top of the acros (waiting to get big enough to kill snails)..so I suspect I will move them out soon.

[BCWolfen]

What exactly does 'Not reef safe' mean. What is it that they eat/destroy?
I plan to have my 90 as my display and a 33 plumbed in as well as a viewable refugium. I'd like to grow some mangroves ontop of teh live rock and let them grow out above the tank. Perhaps it could also house a few Not reef safe critters???

[Samw]

Originally Posted by EmilyB

My favorites are my hallowe'en hermits - I got them from Sam Wong quite a long time ago. They are NOT reef safe, (talk about chasing other hermits at high speed ) but have managed to evade a trigger for hmm, more than a year I think isn't it Sam ?

I can only watch them at nite when they come out. They wear huge turbo shells.

I like the scarlets, I did put into the reef a few small blue legs again, but they just hang out at the top of the acros (waiting to get big enough to kill snails)..so I suspect I will move them out soon.

Yeah, I guess its been about a year now. But they are Electric Blue hermits aren't they? Halloween ones are the orange w/ stripe ones. Isn't it cruel to put crabs in the same tank as triggers? Hm, I can't remember why I got rid of them now. Was it because they killed a lot of snails or cause they killed other hermits. Oh well, I can't remember. Maybe it was because they kept knocking over my unmounted corals. I haven't seen any in stores for a while now.

[EmilyB]

Sam, oh okay, maybe I'm confused because I got them at the same time and they had similar behavior. The electric blues were exactly like the hallowe'ens. I lost the electrics in a rock tub "aiptasia curing" accident.... I didn't know they had hitchhiked.

BCW, in this case "not reef safe" generally means they attack something beneficial in a total reef environment, in this case it would be any smaller hermits and snails would be a routine meal

[rodsboys]

My hermits never bother my snails,however the one remaining zebra I have and my original electric blue put a beating on the rest of the hermit population(2 smaller zebras,3 large scarletts,1 smaller electric blue,bunch of blue leggs,and a emerald crab).The only thing that has calmed them down is the addition of another electric blue that is as big as both of them combined.lol Got him from Lee.He is the sheriff in my tank now.