Hermit crabs driving me nuts

[Crabs McJones]

Anyone have a good way to keep hermits off of zoanthids?
They keep climbing all over them causing them to close up. Thought about using a small sample cup with the bottom cut out of it until they open up and start growing out. But they're driving me nuts, and I don't want to remove them as they're doing an awesome job of keeping the tank clean. But they love climbing on my zoas
Any thoughts?

 

[BryanM]

I guess I've been lucky, mine don't do this.... If they did I'd probably relocate them.

 

[Reef magic 1]

Anyone have a good way to keep hermits off of zoanthids?
They keep climbing all over them causing them to close up. Thought about using a small sample cup with the bottom cut out of it until they open up and start growing out. But they're driving me nuts, and I don't want to remove them as they're doing an awesome job of keeping the tank clean. But they love climbing on my zoas
Any thoughts?

Its ok for them to do that. It will help keeping your zoanthids cleaner. So they will grow faster. Once they can't find food they eventually die.

 

[Reef.]

Unless a crab is useful for algae such as an emerald crab for bubble algae or a pest I won’t keep them, they are forever climb over corals but worse they eat the snails, they are just too much hassle for me, and apart from looking good, I an not convinced they make good CUC.

 

[dnprall]

Unless a crab is useful for algae such as an emerald crab for bubble algae or a pest I won’t keep them, they are forever climb over corals but worse they eat the snails, they are just too much hassle for me, and apart from looking good, I an not convinced they make good CUC.

I agree that they eat the snails. I finally got rid of my mine and algae didn't change.

 

[BonnieB]

Anyone have a good way to keep hermits off of zoanthids?
They keep climbing all over them causing them to close up. Thought about using a small sample cup with the bottom cut out of it until they open up and start growing out. But they're driving me nuts, and I don't want to remove them as they're doing an awesome job of keeping the tank clean. But they love climbing on my zoas
Any thoughts?

My problem too…never getting them ! To answer your question, I have no real solution!

 

[Crabs McJones]

May need to remove them. Maybe make a second tank to house them if my algae changes

 

[BonnieB]

May need to remove them. Maybe make a second tank to house them if my algae changes

When we moved everything from the 32, we split them into the 70 and hundred…they still found the zoas! They have no boundaries and crawl over everything but they particularly like the zoa area. Don’t know what it is, algae eating? It’s annoying because they clearly make them close up…a lot!

 

[NanoSteam]

I love them, here's a photo after I introduced them. 4 of them started in the middle of this rock and worked out words polished this rock of that green algae you can see on the edges. Took them 1 day.

I love snails but they rarely bother with my rockwork unfortunately.