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My tank is quite large with a couple tangs, a few engineer goby’s, a banner fish and a banded moray.
Can I have some snails and hermit crabs with the moray eel?
 

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What kind of moray??
Nevermind I missed that part. Its a gymno, so a fang tooth eel, meaning that they usually eat fish. With my fang tooth eels I keep halloween hermits usually (they are larger and very aggressive when someone tries to eat them) snails, and conches are great. Usually things with hard shells as fang tooth morays dont have the teeth to bite through shells like pebble tooth eels. So if you get bigger shelled inverts like I mentioned you should be fine, just be prepared to lose a few if your eel tries to eat them but being a gymno I doubt they will try. Also keep them well fed and that will also really help deter your eel from trying.
 
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I was looking at a range of snails Halloween hermits small hermits sally lightfoot crab
 
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I was looking at a range of snails Halloween hermits small hermits sally lightfoot crab
Not sure about the lightfoot, Ive had a few go missing. Ive also had some hermits go missing too but I also have pebbletooth eels. I do larger hermits like halloweens and those are usually okay. Just depends on your eel’s personality
 
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Had a snowflake with a large red legged scarlet hermit and they coexisted for months until I'm guessing hermit went seeking a new shell post molt. Don't know how that compares to banded but guessing anything with a shell it can't crack as stated above might work. Perhaps large Mexican turbos.

Having said that. That snowflake loved frozen thawed shrimp.
 
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Had a snowflake with a large red legged scarlet hermit and they coexisted for months until I'm guessing hermit went seeking a new shell post molt. Don't know how that compares to banded but guessing anything with a shell it can't crack as stated above might work. Perhaps large Mexican turbos.

Having said that. That snowflake loved frozen thawed shrimp.
100% agree with that. My pebbles are the ones I have to worry about inverts with. My fang tooths could care less what crab is in the tank lol. Had a blue spiny lobster, really big actually. My freakin zebra eel managed to kill and half eat it! This thing was like 7 inches long not including the antennaes!
 
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I’ve ordered 5 Halloween hermits, 4 conches, a Mexican turbo snail, and a CUC bundle consisting of 4 trochus, 3 bumblebee, 1 conch, 2 cerith, 1 money cowrie, 2 nas and 2 normal turbos
 
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I’ve ordered 5 Halloween hermits, 4 conches, a Mexican turbo snail, and a CUC bundle consisting of 4 trochus, 3 bumblebee, 1 conch, 2 cerith, 1 money cowrie, 2 nas and 2 normal turbos
I'd consider getting more nassarius as those help clean the sand bed and amazing at not just eating leftovers but dead fish. Astraea I've found better at cleaning surface algae although succumb to falling and and not righting themselves which make them easier prey unless substrate rougher so they can right themselves. Guessing in nature wave action helps get them upright again otherwise not exactly sure how they haven't gone extinct.
 
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Only one way to find out unfortunately. Luckily they are cheap although trying is at their expense.
 
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