I got six new small blue leg hermits for my 12g nano and lo and behold one day I find two of them chowing down on their crustacean brothers. Now I'm down to 3 little cannibals. Has this ever happened to anyone else???
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Little monsters eat snails too. I decided to go hermit free and I had no idea they were killing off my snails... I figured snails didn't live too long in tanks but now with no hermits my snails don't seem to die and disappear . .. don't think I lost one in months and months now.
Snails are good but It depends on how much algae you have In your tank , In my 60 gal I only have two snails (one eaten out of three) ,but I have 50 hermits there . In my 12 gal I have two snails and around ten Hermits and not bothering the snails .I hand picked the hermits so they are all tiny and snails were slightly larger .
Turbos are usually too large for a hermit to hurt. Trochus are great at defending themselves. They shake/twist off hermits, and are also pretty quick for a snail. Not my video, but I see this sort of stuff all the time, and I hear them when they shake and tap their shell against the glass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jlVvmHFM0g
I have never had a problem with my blue legs eating each other and their snail friends, and my snails prefer the rock, except a few astrias. I have turbos, astrias, cerith, margarita and mexican turbos and the all seem to coexist with all of the hermits (2 scarlets, 4 mexican red legs, and 80-90 blue legs) in the 110. I guess I should start praying they stay like that, lol. If your 4 cannibals eat each other, you can always try scarlets. I have heard that people prefer them because they are way more peaceful than the other hermits
Yep! Treat them just like the blue legs. Mine are slightly bigger than most of the blues I have, except the monster ones... But they do seem more chill than the blue legs.
Just make sure you put a dozen or so extra shells in the tank