hermit crab

Anyone have any insight into zebra hermits? I have one and a big scarlet. They’ve been in there with three blue legs who I can’t find suddenly. The blue legs and the scarlet have lived peacefully forever: the zebra is a recent addition about a month ago because I found him half dead in a used...

Anyone have any opinion on zebra hermits? I’ve got one in my 32 biocube led and so far I know he’s killed one snail but whatever. I don’t care about that. My question is will he kill my blue legs and my scarlet? This is the first and only zebra hermit I’ve ever had. I found him half dead in a...

One of my two blue legged hermits has vanished, shell and all. It could not have climbed out of the tank as the mesh at the top is smaller than the shell sized, and it was not in my overflow. Do they bury themselves after molting or anything, shell included?

Recently just started up a 37g tank, I’m on week 2 of cycling and I had a pair of clown in there to help cycle. I noticed 1/2 clowns started showing signs of ich so I removed them both into a hospital tank and begun treating them. The one experiencing symptoms did not make it, the other clown...

I bought my first 3 frags a week ago today. The one in the back was the Paly at it’s finest, at least in my tank. At the LFS it fell off the plug during bagging but i took it anyway. After a few days i loosely attached it to some dried epoxy with fishing line. My blue legged hermit crabs had...

Hi guys! I’m new to reefing and I’ve recently set up a 29 gallon tank that’s finished cycling. Right now I have one Nassarius snail, one trochus snail, two margarita snails, and one cerith snail. I was told that I can have up to ten snails in my tank so I’m pretty sure that stocking is fine...

So my halloween hermit just molted, gave me quite a scare as i saw its legs outside of its shell and i thought it was dead for a second. Do they eat their old legs and arms (the part that has been molted) after molting? Do they need it or can i remove it? Was thinking of preserving it in some...

I have about 15 hermit crabs and so far in past 2 days I’ve seen 3 dead ones. I’ve also noticed that most of them except for a fewer of the small ones are not very active at all. I did read that hermits will at times not move for 3 days but I’ve been noticing them all not be that active for...

Just found this thing on my Halloween Hermit today after having him a while. But I’ve definitely noticed this weird string on him before. Hopefully it’s not harmful... Any help would be appreciated

Not even conches are safe from my striped hermit who now lives in a 3inch shell however he does eat a bit of algea but not enough. So does anyone here have any clean up crew that can live longer than a month around my hermit? Theres only so much algea you can remove daily ☹

Okay so I just let my 5 dwarf hermit crabs into my tank and right away one of the hermit crabs got out of its shell. I tried to nudge it back to him as he’s exploring the tank but he keeps leaving it. I do have extra shells but they are all bigger and he is quite small. I have no idea what to do...

So i have a 20 gallon with about 10 hermits and theyve been doing a great job at cleaning up the frags from algae but all the sudden half of them died and they were only 2 months old. The fish and the corals are doing great, even the super sensitive goni. I tested the water and its 0 ammonia, 0...

Stocking ideas for 16gal Biocube. Need opinions on this stock of fish. We are pretty open on snails so any you think would be beneficial to the tanks overall health we are open to hear about. If there is another fish you think we can sneak in please do tell we are fully open to see what other...

Seems like some kind of mollusk that opens, any ideas? Check video something Black looks like tongue comes out

Making his way down sand, crawling fast, lobo’s pass and he’s food-bound

New to saltwater aquarium hobby. I have a 20 gallon tank fish only. I have had general success with it up to this point (the fish are doing fine). I bought 4 electric blue hermit crabs for a CUC and in the last 2 weeks have lost 3. I also have a cleaner shrimp who has been doing great. My...

Their legs have a vertical orange stripe. Thanks in advance!

Got this little guy from my LFS as a blue legged hermit but does not look even close to my other blues. Anyone know what kind of hermit it is? seems to have grey/brown legs and black and white striped eyes

Looking for a source to buy hermit crab shells small enough for those little $1 Cortez hermit crabs, I know the little dudes are cheap but they’re adorable and I want to offer them a chance at a longer life! Thanks in advance.

This guy came in a bucket of love rock I picked up from another tank. I cant seem to find anything like him in my search. Picture is not great, but it is brown with white bands on legs and white dots on him. She'll is about 1.5 inches across.

Can anyone help me Identify what this is on my hermits shell. I just ordered a clean up crew and this was on some of the shells.

Spotted one of my hermit crabs on top of a snail, I was worried at first he went rogue... But it seems he just wanted to party :oops: Crawled right off after.

Just thought you guys would enjoy this. This hermit crab decided that the natural opening of the shell was too mainstream ;Hilarious

I recently got my first coral, a beauty of an ORA zoa colony. Instead of the standard coral plug, it came on a shell. I thought it was unique, so I got it. I introduced it to my tank and it opened up right away. A few hours after introducing it into my tank, my red leg hermit crab moved into the...