Another Noob Question

[christyf5]

IMO hermits can be predatory when they don't have enough to eat or they sense tastiness approaching, in the form of new snails. I haven't kept hermits for years for exactly this reason. At 1.69 each, its a pretty pricey hermit crab dinner.

Technically hermits are "reef safe" but I think you pays your money and takes your chances on some of these items.

[xtreme]

I know I have a lot less snails now than the 60+ I started with. I've gotten rid of my larger hermits. Not sure if that has helped.

[Aquattro]

hermits bad

[Lance]

I think all hermits will attack snails. They seem to get worse when they get larger. When mine get too big they go in the refugium. Won't be buying anymore either!

[bv_reefer]

hermits love a free meal thats for sure, pretty sure i've read that theres not one species that won't take advantage of an upside down snail. they're also annoying when you feed anemones/ lps as they usually start climbing on the coral and pciking at it, which really annoys it. for example a condy anemones worst anemone just happens to be a hermit, definitely would'nt deem them reef-safe, more evil than anything..