hermit crab

So my blue legged hermit crab disappeared on me for about 5 days in a 15G tank. Initially I though it died because that sucker could not be found and normally its very active. Low and behold I found it wedge against some rocks underneath. I thought maybe it got stuck because I see its body...

Hello. Still a newbie, still ballsing things up here and there despite tons of research... The latest thing I seem to have done wrong was disguard what I think was our little red legged hermits molted bits. I'm now told that it would have snacked on them now it's back in his shell - to gain...

Hello, my Fluval Evo 13.5 has been setup since October and has had a lot of algae up until late February. I started out with 3 trochus snails and 3 electric blue legged hermit crabs (I think one or two of these are just blue legged). The trochus lasted about 3 months and then randomly died. I...

hi? everyone~ very sad that there is a problem with my fish tank. Recently, the hermit crabs I was raising died one after another. The hermit crab I raised was called “Pagurus minutus Hess” Personally, I suspect that the death of hermit crabs is due to the hardness of sea water. The...

(ALL GONE) I'm moving across the country in a couple months and am having to break down my tank. Now that I have unloaded a decent chunk of my corals, I'm starting to sell off my fish and inverts. I'm happy to be super transparent, as I'd like these fish and inverts to go to fellow hobbyists...

Can clown fish fry and hermit crabs be together My clown fish fry are 3 days old and the water is tinted so i cant see if they are all still alive. was thinking of throwing a hermit in there to eat the dead fry if there are any. has anyone tried this before, this should also keep an ammonia...

I have two frags of gsp ones quite small while the other one is a large lump with strands about 2 inches in length I had got this Halloween crab about 3 days ago and today he went on the rock for the first time I've seen and literally went straight for the small lump of gsp, and started eating...

There is such a wide variety of both hermit crabs and snails, are some more or less compatible with eachother than others? Would a smaller hermit crab like a scarlet still kill a snail like a large trochus who's shell wouldn't even be suitable for such a crab? I would like to hear peoples'...

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Prepare your tanks for the holidays with our Reef Decoration holiday sale - up to 70% off select livestock now until November 15th - just in time for Thanksgiving! We offer free overnight shipping on orders 299.99 and over to the continental US via both FedEx and UPS. Govx ID users for...

My Halloween hermit had been very active, then suddenly went into hiding. He is now completely out of his shell. Do these guys molt their "exoskeletons" or is molting just considered them swapping shells? I do not have any other shells for him to go in to.

Today’s lucky contestant… It’s a blue leg hermit crab!!! Or is it? Ok folks… SHED or DEAD?!? *That is not/was not his shell.

i have a fair amount of hermit crabs and leaving shells scattered around looks so distracting, so i was thinking i want to do a small area with all of them in one place what kind of materials could i use? i think i’d like to do some kind of square container and a “Free Shells” sign on top. any...

I think my blue hermit has confused himself for a clownfish, and my green polyp leather with an anemone. I will remove the little guy and within seconds he’ll be nestled back in the leather. I guess isn’t not really symbiotic because the hermit is probably just annoying the coral while the...

This is Eugene. I collected him in South Florida back in June on the Atlantic side while on a weekend trip down there. He started off super small (smaller than a blue legged hermit crab) but is growing far faster than any other hermit crab I've ever had. He spends all day cleaning the sand bed...

Just heard a fairly loud "clack" from the tank, like a shell hitting the glass. Walked over and see my tiger conch scooting away from two hermits, one of which was on it's back and was struggling to right itself. I figured it was a big of aggression, maybe the hermits trying to mug the conch for...

I came home for work today and I found my largest hermit crab presumably dead next to my pulsing Xenia. I have 5 total and that was the biggest with bigger shells for him to inhabit. The fish are happy, pulsing Xenia and GSP are happy looking. Multiple zoa frags are open. Other hermit crab seem...

I overbought CUC for my reef. I can spare 3 large Mexican Turbo snails, 2 large nassarius snails, 3 trochus snails and 4 blue legged hermit crabs. Send me a note if interested.

Does anyone actually have/had one of these guys? They are currently my dream animal and I would love to own one Probably 99% of the threads on every single forum are full of people saying 'i dont own one but this one random website says ________' and honestly i dont believe half of the things...

Hello, I have two Blue knuckled hermit crabs that are just too big for my tank / bio load at the moment. They are beautiful and perfectly healthy, but they’ve simply ran out of room in my tank. If you are located near Morgantown and would like to have them text/call me at 7249917252 . Thanks!

Just added 4 new hermit crabs. They all were immediately active after putting them in the tank. Couple hours later this guy stopped moving and I saw a pink worm looking thing come out of his shell. Now he appears to be slowly evacuating the shell. What is the pink worm thing crawling on his...

Hello everyone. I got a new hermit crab recently from PetCo, he or she is a “zebra” hermit crab. He has taken a liking to my Haitian Anemone. Constantly next to it, under it, or cuddling it. Is this normal and okay?

Hey Yall, I have an interesting question, and I was wondering if I could get some input on it. So I had five hermit crabs in my 15gal Fluval flex, and it's been around three months since I added them. About a month ago, around December 20th, they just slowly started disappearing for no obvious...

So this one of my hermit crabs likes to climb the edges of the tank and chill at the top. Is there a reason why he does this? He ends up falling down eventually and is fine but I’m just confused as to why he does this.