hermit crab

I’m hoping this community can help with a very unusual situation. While vacationing on the Atlantic coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, I accidentally brought home what I thought was an empty seashell. After arriving back in North Carolina, I discovered that it was actually occupied by a...

A lot of people who have reef tanks will experience this problem where there are hermit crabs will kill and eat cleaner snails. A lot of the times this happens due to a lack of empty shells in the tank for the hermit crabs to grow into, so they take matters into their own hands and start...

Berghia Nudibranch, Shipping available. All sized at least 1/2 inch mostly larger. ~40 ready to go $20 for 1 $80 for 5 $140 for 10 Overnight shipping $50 Also available: Blue Leg Hermits and Astrea Snails Mix & Match (Snails & Crabs): • 12 for $10 • 30 for $20 • 75 for $50 Pick your own...

Hey, I’m new to the forum and aquarium hobby. Me and my family are trying to get a saltwater aquarium, and was I wondering if things like clown fish, hermit crabs porcelain crabs, and others could be kept with a mandarin dragonet.

Berghia Nudibranch, Shipping available. All sized at least 1/2 inch mostly larger. ~25 ready to go $20 for 1 $80 for 5 $140 for 10 Also available: Blue Leg Hermits and Astrea Snails Mix & Match (Snails & Crabs): • 12 for $10 • 30 for $20 • 75 for $50 Pick your own combo — same price...

I have posted previously about my tank. A 3 gallon with inverts. In my area we had severe flooding thursday/friday to the point people lost their lives. My apartment got flooded and it damaged a lot of furniture including my bed. So I have been sleeping at my brother’s house in the meantime...

Hello everyone, First post - looking for some advice/help identifying what this growth is on my hermit crabs shell. It looks kind of coral like and has grown considerably in the last few days. It appears to move slowly in the current and and has little hairy ends that move and retract as...

Hello, I started a fishless cycle a 6 weeks ago, saw an ammonia spike, a nitrite spike and some nitrates. Last week I got 2 clowns and 5 hermit crabs of different sizes. The crabs were doing good and looked active the first 3 days. One of the clown was showing lesion marks on the mouth and I...

the other day i bought 15 bumblebee snails, but to my surprise one of them turned out to be a little hermit crab disguising itself as a bumblebee snail! now here's where I am stumped I have absolutely no clue what kind of hermit crab he is he is a very pale blue and his claws are slightly darker...

Can anyone ID this hermit crab for me? I took this picture in Jan 2023 at a petco. This dude was huge, maybe 2-3+ inches. I really want one for a larger tank.

Does anyone know what is happening? Eggs? Self protection? Found my hermit crab on top of my conch. Now my tank is full of a gooey egg mixture? Should I do anything?

hello R2R how happy i was getting homme from work and excited to open my package of coral food from aquaforest then looking into my tank and seeing a true horror show, i saw one of 3 halloween hermit crab i own eating another one, it was a true frightening sight and know i wonder what could...

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I bought a frogspawn several weeks ago and it was doing great until earlier this week when I saw one of my larger hermit crabs on top of the frogspawn after feeding it. Since the hermit crab attacked the coral has seemed unhappy and today looks as shown in the attached photo. Can the coral be...

Hi Everyone, first post. I have had a reef tank now for almost one year, my only fish are a clown pair, and a clown goby who is my favorite. I also have a few stars, and nas and troch snails. I recently went on vacation, and returned to find my corals dead and choked out by long hair algae...

can you have a one clown fish and snail or hermit crab in 5 gallon tank aquarium because I’m getting reef pico 5 gallon pico tank and l like to do it and do you guys recommend that tank size because I’m a beginners

hello everyone So I wanted some advice , have had my 20g tank for about 2 months now. Had a starfish (sand sifting) in my tank that I noticed was missing a limb one night to the next , and by the 3rd night he only had 2 limbs left. I have a hawkish , 2 saltwater Millie’s and a hermit crab I...

So I picked up some extra shells from the Lfs for my red legged hermit to give him some options to live in and when I threw this one in to my surprise some legs popped out… anyone know what type he his?? Black legs with yellow spots and yellow claws??? Got such a fright when I seen him come out...

Hello! I just got a sea hare [name: MooCows jr.] That eats GHA. I also have scarlet hermit crabs. And narassius snails x2 Will MooCows Jr. get eaten?? Sea hare is healthy and eating and pooping. Pic for imagination:

I have an 80 gallon, 3-4 months old now and been in an algae stage for a while; dinos, cyano and a lot of bryopsis over the rocks. I currently have a pair of snowflake clowns that have been in from the start, 2 scarlet hermits and 2 trochus snails and i had a royal gramma for 2 weeks that didn’t...

Hey guys Everything’s been going so well in the tank and everyone seems to be happy! Just one small question…I have 2 red legged hermits that do occasionally latch onto each other n then let go after a few minutes, I tend to leave them to it as there are plenty of shells for them to change...

he stays in one corner (alive confirmed) even though he molted recently, he had been staying here a while before. I'm not sure if they like hiding but every other hermit crab I've had was always out and about. It has algae and shelter but he'll never leave.

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...